Building Nourishing Pantries is a capacity-building training for staff and volunteers working at a food distribution site.

Training Objectives: In this training, participants will:

• Develop an understanding of how positive and adverse experiences (including trauma and toxic stress) affect individual and community relationships to food and dietary health.
• Learn the basic process and principles of a trauma-informed approach and how to apply it to pantry work.
• Learn actionable steps that you can take to create client and community-centered food distributions.
• Collaboratively explore what role food pantries have in supporting community food security.

Audience: Food bank and pantry staff and volunteers, University Extension professionals, NPP implementers, and others that work in food distribution or food security.

Prerequisite: None

Training Hours: Participants will complete two hours of online, self-paced work, which will open in early February. Participants will also attend two live Zoom sessions on February 20 and 27, from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. PT.

As part of the CalFresh Healthy Living partnership, you may refer your affiliated pantries to receive a complimentary registration for our Building Nourishing Pantries course. Please direct your pantry partners to fill out this form to register free of charge.