Medicine Hat food bank’s program teaches basic culinary skills, connects clients to essential community services to support finances, literacy, mental health, parenting and more
community kitchen program says it has drastically reduced food-bank use among participants by providing more than just an emergency meal – in one case, teaching a client how to read, and in another, supporting someone through a child custody battle.
“Food is the vessel to bring them to the program, but really what they get is community,” Ms. Mullis said. “That’s how you solve these problems. It’s that wraparound approach, asking what’s going on? How can we support you? How can we move you to the next level?” Food-bank use has spiked since 2019 with the highest year-over-year increase since the aftermath of the 2008 recession, according to Food Banks Canada. The organization’s “hunger count,” released in October, showed there were nearly 1.5 million visits to food banks across Canada in March – a 15-per-cent increase compared with last March, driven by soaring inflation, an end to COVID-19 pandemic-relief benefits, and insufficient social-assistance programs.
There is a significant disconnect between the magnitude of people living in food-insecure situations and those accessing charity, with less than one in 10 food-insecure people utilizing food banks for reasons such as stigma and strict eligibility criteria, she said. The underlying problem is insufficient income, the effect of which extends beyond putting food on the table.
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