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Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 09 16; 19(18)IJ

Abstract

Food insecurity is widespread in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the need for food assistance and created opportunities for collaboration among historically-siloed organizations. Research has demonstrated the importance of coalition building and community organizing in Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) change and its potential to address equitable access to food, ultimately improving population health outcomes. In New Haven, community partners formed a coalition to address systems-level issues in the local food assistance system through the Greater New Haven Coordinated Food Assistance Network (CFAN). Organizing the development of CFAN within the framework of Collaborating for Equity and Justice (CEJ) reveals a new way of collaborating with communities for social change with an explicit focus on equity and justice. A document review exploring the initiation and growth of the network found that 165 individuals, representing 63 organizations, participated in CFAN since its inception and collaborated on 50 actions that promote food access and overall health. Eighty-one percent of these actions advanced equitable resource distribution across the food system, with forty-five percent focused on coordinating food programs to meet the needs of underserved communities. With the goal of improving access to food while addressing overall equity within the system, the authors describe CFAN as a potential community organizing model in food assistance systems.

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Santilli A
Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE), Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06515, USA.
Lin-Schweitzer A
Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Morales SI
Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Werlin S
Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Hart K
Witnesses to Hunger-New Haven Chapter, New Haven, CT, USA.
Cramer J
Loaves and Fishes, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Martinez JA
United Way of Greater Waterbury, Waterbury, CT 06702, USA.
O'Connor Duffany K
Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.

MeSH

COVID-19Food AssistanceFood InsecurityHealth EquityHumansPandemicsSocial JusticeUnited States

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Language

eng

PubMed ID

36141937

Citation

Santilli, Alycia, et al. "Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 18, 2022.
Santilli A, Lin-Schweitzer A, Morales SI, et al. Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(18).
Santilli, A., Lin-Schweitzer, A., Morales, S. I., Werlin, S., Hart, K., Cramer, J., Martinez, J. A., & O'Connor Duffany, K. (2022). Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(18). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811666
Santilli A, et al. Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 09 16;19(18) PubMed PMID: 36141937.
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TY - JOUR T1 - Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network. AU - Santilli,Alycia, AU - Lin-Schweitzer,Anna, AU - Morales,Sofia I, AU - Werlin,Steve, AU - Hart,Kim, AU - Cramer,James, AU - Martinez,Jason A, AU - O'Connor Duffany,Kathleen, Y1 - 2022/09/16/ PY - 2022/08/10/received PY - 2022/09/04/revised PY - 2022/09/08/accepted PY - 2022/9/23/entrez PY - 2022/9/24/pubmed PY - 2022/9/28/medline KW - chronic disease prevention KW - coalition building KW - environment change KW - food insecurity KW - policy KW - systems JF - International journal of environmental research and public health JO - Int J Environ Res Public Health VL - 19 IS - 18 N2 - Food insecurity is widespread in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the need for food assistance and created opportunities for collaboration among historically-siloed organizations. Research has demonstrated the importance of coalition building and community organizing in Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) change and its potential to address equitable access to food, ultimately improving population health outcomes. In New Haven, community partners formed a coalition to address systems-level issues in the local food assistance system through the Greater New Haven Coordinated Food Assistance Network (CFAN). Organizing the development of CFAN within the framework of Collaborating for Equity and Justice (CEJ) reveals a new way of collaborating with communities for social change with an explicit focus on equity and justice. A document review exploring the initiation and growth of the network found that 165 individuals, representing 63 organizations, participated in CFAN since its inception and collaborated on 50 actions that promote food access and overall health. Eighty-one percent of these actions advanced equitable resource distribution across the food system, with forty-five percent focused on coordinating food programs to meet the needs of underserved communities. With the goal of improving access to food while addressing overall equity within the system, the authors describe CFAN as a potential community organizing model in food assistance systems. SN - 1660-4601 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/36141937/Coalition_Building_and_Food_Insecurity:_How_an_Equity_and_Justice_Framework_Guided_a_Viable_Food_Assistance_Network_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -