Food Security ScorecardRev. Dr. Joe Blosser, Culp Director of Service Learning at HPU

Dr. Kim Reich, Associate Professor of Exercise Science at HPU

Amanda Goodwin, HPU VISTA

Brittany McClure, HPU VISTA

Jenna Rosenbloom, HPU VISTA

Empower Sustain

Food Ed

Urban Ag

Policy

Imm. Needs

West End

Burns Hill

Washig-ton St.

Food Secure

High Point

Unify

GHPFA Approach

Standardized Assessment Tool

How can we create a tool that:

• Tells us what food security in High Point looks like

• Is verifiable • Is scalable• Is responsive to on-the-ground

changes and neighborhood solutions• Can be regularly assessed

The Goal

Is

NOT to “Grade” neighborhoods as to who is bad or good

But rather

How can we strategically use limited time, talent, and money to make the biggest changes in people’s lives?

The Tool

Mapping

% of Households within a 10 minute walk of a grocery store in Washington St.

Using

ArcGIS® software by Esri

Mapping

% of Households within a 10 minute walk of a grocery store in Washington St.

Plus food pantries

Mapping

% of Households within a 10 minute walk of a grocery store in Washington St.

Plus food pantries

Plus community gardens

Collaboration

Index Process

1) Neighborhoods (2015)

2) VISTAs and Food Alliance (2016)

3) Neighborhoods (2016)

4) HPU Professors (2017)

5) GHPFA Food Summit (2017)

6) HPU Professors (2017)

7) Neighborhoods – our next step (2018)

Questions?