Hunger Site Visit: California

Site Visit Stops

Day 1 

Member Participants: Congressman John Garamendi (CA-03), Chairman Jim McGovern (MA-02)

• UC Davis Vet Med - Briefing and Discussions with:

  • Mike Ziccardi, Executive Director; Matt Blake, Chief Operating Officer; Dr. Simon Anthony, One Health Institute 

  • Michael Carter, Director, Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Markets, Risk, and Resilience

• Tour of UC Davis Student Farm + Briefing and Discussions with:

  • Chef Santana Diaz, Head Chef, UC Davis Health

  • Kamaljeet Singh-Khaira, Director, University of California CalFresh Nutrition Education Program (UC CalFresh)  Statement 

  • Lisa Kemp, Director, UC Davis Basic Needs Initiative and Aggie Compass Basic Needs Center

  • Ryan Galt, Executive Director Agriculture Sustainability Institute

  • Katharina Ullmann, Director, UC Davis Student Farm

• Solano-Contra Costa Food Bank Tour  Statement

  • 2021 Impact Report

Day 2

Member Participants: Chairman Jim McGovern (MA-02)

• Florence Fang Farm  Statement

• 3rd Street Youth Center

• Heart of the City Farmers Market

• La Cocina Municipal Marketplace  Statement 

• Walking tour through the Tenderloin & Stop at Corner Store for Fresh Produce 

Additional Materials for the Record

• "2021 Food Pharmacy Patient Evaluation Report Executive Summary", Food as Medicine Collaborative 

• Vouches 4 Veggies

  • Impact Report 2021

  • Participant Stories

  • "Economic Impact of an Increased WIC Cash-Value Benefit (CVB)"

• Misa Perron-Burdick, MD MA, Founder and Director, San Francisco Patient Pantry  Statement 

• Kathleen Chung, MD, Interim Medical Director, Potrero Hill Health Center  Statement 

• "Food Pharmacy Pilot June - August 2021", La Cocina Municipal Marketplace, Curry Senior Center, Food as Medicine Collaborative, Health Right 360

• Restaurant Meals Program (RMP) Expansion Proposal

• "Fact Sheet: Medically Tailored Meals (MTM) Programs", California Food Is Medicine Coalition

Day 3

Member Participants: Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11), Congresswoman Barbra Lee (CA-13), Chairman Jim McGovern (MA-02)

• Arcadio’s at Wholesale Market in San Francisco  Statement 

  • Annual Report

• Mt Diablo Middle School – school garden & student run restaurant

• Urban Tilth  Statement 

  •  The New North Richmond Farm: Hub for Empowerment and Liberation 

  • Seed Power Grow Justice 

• Berkeley Food Institute  

  • Berkeley Food Network Advocacy Priorities

• Eat. Play. Learn. Roundtable

• Western Regional Anti-Hunger Consortium Roundtable

  • Western Regional Anti-Hunger Consortium (WRAHC) letter to Rep. McGovern

  • Rep. DeSaulnier’s California delegation letter to Governor Newsom

  • California school meals for all coalition with 207 groups in support

  • Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Bold Strategies to Fight Child Hunger

  • "Pandemic-EBT in California: Lessons and Opportunities to End Childhood Hunger", by Rocio Perez, Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow, Congressional Hunger Center, March 2021

  • California Teachers Association Board Member Angela Normand Statement 

Day 4  (Agenda)

Member Participants: Chairman Jim McGovern (MA-02)

• Ecumenical Hunger Program  Statement

• Ravenswood Health Center tour

• Roundtable Discussion at Ravenswood

  • Bart Charlow, CEO, Samaritan House

    • Samaritan House COVID-19 Response 

  • Dolly Goyal, Director of Children’s Programs, East Palo Alto City Library 

  • Lakesha Roberts-Evans Associate Director, Ecumenical Hunger Program 

  • Laura deTar, Executive Director, Fresh Approach 

  • Luisa Buada, CEO, Ravenswood Family Health Network and Sharon DiPierro, MD, pediatrician at Ravenswood Family Health Network.  

  • Tracy Weatherby, Policy Director, Second Harvest Food Bank 

  • James Harris, Vice President, Operations, Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula 

  • June Richardson, Child Nutrition, Ravenswood City School District 

  • Baraka Floyd, MD, Pediatrician, Gardner Packard Children’s Health Center, Assistant Clinical Professor, Stanford School of Medicine, Associate Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.  Co-founder Diapers at the Doctor and Medical Director of the medical-legal partnership at Stanford Children’s Health.

  • Shawneece Stevenson, Family Success Coach, The Primary School

  • Mary Haughey, YMCA, USDA Summer Food Program

  • Sherri Sager, Senior Vice President and Chief Government Relations Officer, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital/Stanford Children’s Health. 

  • Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Director, Office of Child Health Equity, Stanford Children’s Health, Professor by Courtesy, Stanford Graduate School of Education, Arline and Pete Harman Faculty Scholar Associate Chair, Policy & Community Engagement  Statement

    • California Pediatrics Training Collaborative (“The Collaborative”)

• Janine Bruce, DrPH, MPH, Senior Research Scholar, Co-Director: Pediatric Advocacy Program Director: Scholarly Concentration in Community Health Stanford University School of Medicine, Dept. of Pediatrics  Statement

  • "Lunch at the Library: examination of a community-based approach to addressing summer food insecurity" by Janine S. Bruce, Monica M. De La Cruz, Gala Moreno, and Lisa J Chamberlain, January 2017

  • "Combating Child Summer Food Insecurity: Examination of a Community-Based Mobile Meal Program" by Janine S. Bruce, Monica M. De La Cruz, Katherine Lundberg, Nicholas Vesom, Javier Aguayo, Sylvia Bereknyei Merrell, May 9, 2019 

  • "More to offer than books: stakeholder perceptions of a pubic library-based meal programme" by Monica M. De La Cruz, Kimmy Phan and Janine S. Bruce, October 10, 2019

  • "Mitigating childhood food insecurity durng COVID-19: a qualitative study of how school districts in California's San Joaquin Valley responded to growing needs" by Ashley H. Jowell, Janine S. Bruce, Gabriela V. Escobar, Valeria M. Ordonez, Christina A. Hecht and Anisha I Patel, July 27, 2021

Additional Materials for the Record

• "Pandemic Inspires Heightened Response to Food Insecurity", by Lynn Nichols, Standford Children's Health Community Outreach, August 5, 2021

• Erik Talkin, CEO, Foodbank of Santa Barbara County  Statement

• Shannon Klisch, MPH, MCHES, Academic Coordinator Youth, Families & Communities, University of California Cooperative Extension, San Luis Obispo & Santa Barbara Counties  Statement

• COVID-19 Response Programs Impact Report, San Diego Food Bank and North County Food Bank 

• “We’re Still Hungry”: Lived Experiences with Food Insecurity and Food Programs Among LGBTQ People, UCLA School of Law Williams Institute, June 2020