Youth Transitioning Out of Care Food Insecurity Report
A new report, No One Should Go to Bed Hungry: Food Insecurity among youth with government care experience in Metro Vancouver, led by TRRUST (Transition in Resources, Relationships, and Understanding Support Together), is bringing critically important attention to the reality of youth who face food insecurity. TRRUST is a collective impact initiative working to achieve systems-wide improvements in outcomes specifically for youth transitioning out of care (e.g., foster care) in Vancouver.
Interview with Mariana Chilton, Author of The Painful Truth About Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know and Start Again
By Ian Marcuse, Dec 09, 2024 Thank you for talking with me today. Your new book The Painful Truth About Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know and Start Again has helped clarify my thinking and is a critical call for us all to think and look much deeper into […]
A Year in Review: From Emergency Food Response Towards Collective Impact for Systems Change
The Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks (VNFN) are a network of community organizations committed to promoting health and well-being through a range of food security programs in neighbourhoods across the City of Vancouver each responding to the unique needs and cultures within their respective communities. This past year, many networks continued providing emergency food distribution programs […]