Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida recently received a $300,000 grant from the Florida Blue Foundation to expand hunger relief efforts by training local health care providers to screen patients for risk factors that could indicate food insecurity so they can be directed to community resources. The funding will support a three-year collaborative “Screen and … [Read more...] about Second Harvest to Train Health Care Workers to Identify, Address Food Insecurity in Patients
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Florida Foodie: Enas Gebaly found ‘magic’ in baking
Enas Gebaly, a graduate of Second Harvest's Culinary Training Program, recently appeared on the Florida Foodie podcast with News 6 WKMG to share how your support brought the magic back into her life. The pandemic hit Enas Gebaly and her family hard. Her husband lost his job and it prevented Gebaly from traveling to see her family, who still lives in Egypt. For her, … [Read more...] about Florida Foodie: Enas Gebaly found ‘magic’ in baking
Thinking Outside the Box to Solve School Hunger
Elizabeth Santiago, School Partnerships Program Manager at Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, writes in The Orlando Sentinel about how the relationship between health and hunger impacts local students and how unique programs targeting kids can make a difference. Her guest column originally appeared online and in print on October 10, 2021. From making … [Read more...] about Thinking Outside the Box to Solve School Hunger
Second Harvest trains with Food is Medicine Accelerator for healthy meal delivery
Medically tailored meals will be delivered to thousands more food-insecure and chronically and critically ill people nationwide through the Food is Medicine Accelerator, a project providing technical assistance and training to nonprofit food agencies – including Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida – so that they can launch the life-saving health intervention in … [Read more...] about Second Harvest trains with Food is Medicine Accelerator for healthy meal delivery
Second Harvest Goes “In Depth” with News 13 on Health & Hunger
When one of our neighbors is unsure of where their next meal is going to come from, they are experiencing food insecurity. Recently, Spectrum News 13 spoke with Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida's Karen Broussard on how food insecurity affects kids during the summer and the correlation between health and hunger. Watch the video below. … [Read more...] about Second Harvest Goes “In Depth” with News 13 on Health & Hunger
