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 August 14 & 28 from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Pacific Time.

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.