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From YouTube: Committee on Children and Youth 3-5-2019
Description
The Committee on Children and Youth of the Council of the City of Philadelphia held a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, at 1:00 PM, in Room 400, City Hall, to hear testimony on the following items:
180828 Resolution authorizing the Committee on Children and Youth to hold public hearings examining the prevalence of child hunger in Philadelphia and evaluating the efficacy of existing programs addressing child hunger.
Committee on Children and Youth
Chair: Councilwoman Helen Gym (At Large)
Vice Chair: Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown (At Large)
A
All
right
good
afternoon,
everybody
first
of
all,
I
want
to
thank
everybody
for
coming
out
here
good
afternoon,
and
this
hearing
is
now
called
to
order.
This
is
a
public
hearing
of
the
City
Council
Committee
on
children
and
youth.
The
purpose
of
this
public
hearing
is
to
hear
testimony
on
resolution
number
one:
eight
zero,
eight
two
eight
I
want
to
thank
the
sponsor
of
this
resolution.
Councilmember
Blondell,
Reynolds
Brown
I
would
like
to
recognize
council
member
Reynolds
Brown,
who
is
here
today
and
that
we
will
be
joined
shortly
by
other
council
members
of
the
committee.
A
B
I,
thank
you
very
very
much,
madam
chairwoman.
Again
for
all
of
those
who
work
with
us
up
to
this
point,
a
huge
thank
you
for
the
numerous
meetings
we
had
with
Sean
Raleigh
and
a
host
of
others
that
had
brought
us
to
this
moment.
I
want
to
thank
the
committee
chair
for
scheduling
this
hearing
today
on
an
issue
that
impacts
are
one
of
two
most
vulnerable
populations.
We
serve
in
this
case
our
Philadelphia's
children.
We
know
that
we've
heard
the
bad
news
repeatedly.
B
We
know
that
Philadelphia
is
the
largest
poor
city
in
the
country,
with
26%
of
our
residents
living
below
the
poverty
line,
that
is
1
and
for
citizens.
Poverty
has
an
even
greater
impact
on
our
children.
In
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
in
2018,
37
%
of
children
came
from
homes
where
poverty
is
a
fact
of
everyday
life.
B
As
elected
leaders,
I
believe
it
is
our
duty
and
responsibility
in
many
ways
a
moral
obligation
to
make
sure
we
do
everything
within
our
reach
to
ensure
that
we
tackle
the
issue
of
poverty,
as
it
is
one
of
a
number
of
barriers
that
prevent
young
people
from
achieving
their
potential.
The
needs
of
those
37
percent
is
the
focus
of
today's
hearing.
My
staff
and
I
started
to
zero
in
on
this
issue
of
child
hunger.
Just
under
two
years
ago,
after
reading
research
from
dr.
B
Mariana
Chilton
from
Drexel
University
who's
with
us
today,
thank
you
for
your
work
and
for
providing
the
context
of
what
we
do.
Based
on
that
research,
the
rate
of
child
hunger
and
North
Philadelphia
has
tripled
in
the
last
ten
years
among
those
who
work
at
least
20
hours
a
week
in
the
spring
of
2018,
my
staff
and
I
held
a
briefing
for
council
members
and
staff
on
summer
meals,
programs
for
children,
so
that
we
could
get
the
word
out
to
constituents
about
the
resources
available.
B
Kathy
Fischer
from
the
coalition
against
hunger
was
gracious
enough
to
lead
us
through
a
very
comprehensive
presentation,
along
with
other
experts
and
colleagues
in
the
field.
We
learned
during
that
briefing
that
our
city
has
experienced
a
steady
decline
in
the
usage
of
summer
meals
programs.
Let's
hear
that
again,
we
learned
during
that
briefing
that
Philadelphia
has
actually
experienced
a
decline
in
the
usage
of
summer
meals
program
for
children.
B
A
lauren
to
my
office
and
I
then
sent
a
letter
to
every
Church
and
place
of
worship
in
our
directory,
asking
them
to
be
sure
to
sign
up
to
provide
summer
meals,
so
in
other
words,
while
access
was
there,
the
awareness
of
that
access
was
lacking.
That
later
last
year,
we
learned
that
the
Trump
administration
threatened
to
implement
new
policies
that
would
make
it
even
more
difficult
to
access
federally
funded
food
stamps.
B
When
we
looked
into
whether
participation
and
WIC
programs
has
been
on
the
decline
since
the
Trop
election,
we
found
the
answer
to
be
a
resounding
yes,
that
caseloads
for
food
stamps
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia
are
indeed
on
the
decline.
We
have
dr.
Linda
kilby
from
north
Inc,
who
will
testify
to
that
and
help
us
understand
why?
So,
when
we
add
it
all
up,
we
have
a
city
that
it
has
high
poverty
rates
for
its
residents
and
particularly
for
children.
B
At
the
same
time,
food
insecurity
for
working
families
is
up
and
participation
in
summer
meals
and
flu
program
are
down
unacceptable.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
our
food
security
safety
net
is
indeed
secure,
which
will
require
council,
the
administration,
the
school
district,
the
nonprofit
sector,
foundations,
media
clergy,
both
non-traditional
sources
and
resources
and
concerned
citizens
to
work
collectively
to
change
this
paradigm,
and
so
with
today's
hearing.
Ultimately,
we
are
looking
for
solutions,
because
we
can
boast
about
the
problem.
Talk
about
the
problem
at
nauseam.
All
the
research
is
there.
B
If
you
have
solutions
and
recommendations
for
how
we,
as
a
city
city,
can
do
better.
That's
what
we
need
to
hear
posters
hearing.
We
will
do
an
inventory
of
those
recommendations
and
then
share
that
with
the
administration
and
the
school
district
and
other
stakeholders
to
see
if
we
can
create
a
web
and
glue
all
of
that
together,
so
that
we
can
be
at
a
better
place
when
it
comes
to
children
who
have
to
worry
about
eating
a
hot
meal.
Thank
you
very,
very
much,
madam.
A
Chair,
thank
you
so
much
council,
member,
Reynolds
Brown,
and
thank
you
so
much
for
your
leadership
on
council
over
the
years
and
supporting
issues
about
our
youth,
especially
in
establishing
the
fund
for
children.
I
wanted
to
say
personally
that
when
I
first
came
on
to
see,
council
I
couldn't
have
been
prouder
or
more
excited
to
serve.
Alongside
of
you
continue
a
long
legacy
that
you
have
done
and
to
keep
doing
more.
So
thank
you.
Sir.
A
Poverty
is
a
moral
stain
on
our
society
and
this
nation
and
there
isn't
a
more
cruel
exhibitor
of
that
than
the
hunger
that
people
in
our
city
and
across
the
country
face,
and
if
we
are
truly
committed
to
the
needs
of
young
people
and
to
a
moral
Society
in
2019
and
beyond,
we
have
to
have
people's
basic
needs
met.
We
know
that
children
do
better
when
they
are
fed.
We
know
that
people
should
not
go
hungry
in
the
wealthiest
nation
in
the
world.
A
I
will
say
that,
as
we
open
up
this
hearing,
that
Philadelphia
has
tried
to
be
a
leader
in
student.
Access
to
food
for
over
our
century
for
over
a
century
was
our
city
in
1894.
After
that
started.
The
first
penny
lunches
I
proudly
worked
with
a
number
of
advocates
in
this
room
to
ensure
that
there
is
a
universal
school
breakfast
program
and
every
single
elementary
school
in
the
city,
but
there's
so
much
more
that
we
have
to
do
and
that's
really
what
this
hearing
is
about.
C
D
Good
afternoon,
chairperson
Kim
and
the
members
of
the
children
and
youth
committee,
thank
you
to
City,
Council
and
specifically
to
council
person,
Reynolds
Brown,
for
proposing
a
public
hearing
on
such
a
critical
topic
as
childhood
hunger.
My
name
is
Amanda
Wagner
and
I
am
the
nutrition
and
physical
activity
program
manager
and
the
health
department's
division
of
chronic
disease
prevention.
We,
the
health
department,
are
here
before
you
today,
because
we
recognize
the
many
ways
that
food
insecurity,
poverty
and
health
intersect.
D
Everyone
has
the
right
to
enough
healthy
and
nourishing
food
that
helps
bodies,
minds
and
communities,
grow
and
thrive
when
that
right
is
denied,
often
because
of
poverty
and
inequity,
we
are
contributing
to
the
premature
death
and
disease
that
affects
too
many
philadelphians.
Our
healthcare
partners
see
this
connection
as
well
and
have
shared
many
patient
stories
with
us
of
the
consequences.
D
One
story
in
particular
sticks
in
my
mind:
a
young
mother
with
two
children,
ages,
11
and
15,
was
told
by
her
doctor
during
their
checkup
that
she
needs
to
give
her
children
more
fruits
and
vegetables,
especially
since
her
15
year
old
daughter
is
already
developing
pre-diabetes.
She
replied.
I
have
two
dollars
for
dinner
tonight,
so
my
choices
are
mac
and
cheese
or
the
kids
and
I
go
hungry
tonight.
The
choice
between
less
healthy
food
and
nothing
is
one
faced
by
one
in
four
of
our
neighbors
and
residents.
D
Every
day
and
daily
choices
add
up
leading
the
city's
children
to
be
at
high
risk
for
such
health
issues
as
obesity,
future
diabetes,
hypertension
and
heart
disease.
The
CDC
estimates
that
more
than
1
in
2
children
of
color
will
developed
as
diabetes
in
a
lifetime.
If
current
trends
continue
and
high
rates
of
child
hunger
in
Philadelphia
make
it
likely
that
rates
here
could
be
even
higher.
We
also
know
that
adults
will
forego
food
for
themselves
to
take
care
of
the
children
in
their
household
affecting
their
own
physical,
mental
and
emotional
health.
D
The
city
plays
a
key
role
in
strengthening
the
safety
net
against
child
hunger
and
many
most
directing
the
meals
the
city
offers,
such
as
summer
meals
and
out-of-school
time
and
food
programs
around
a
community
schools
and
in
identifying
ways
that
we
can
increase
on
address
under
enrollment
in
federal
food
assistance.
Programs
like
snap
and
WIC,
the
mayor's
Food
Policy
Council
Advisory
Council,
which
is
staffed
by
the
Office
of
Sustainability
and
I
co-chair,
also
provides
a
space
for
anti-hunger
advocates
and
community
members
to
identify
further
opportunities
to
fight
hunger.
D
I
personally
have
been
participating
in
some
of
these
efforts,
including
the
summer
meals
coalition,
which
is
a
network
of
summer
meal
providers
who
are
taking
a
coordinated
effort
to
map
where
there
are
those
gaps
in
summer
meals
and
how
we
can
increase
the
number
of
children
who
are
served
meals
in
the
summer
and
there's
a
newly
formed
WIC
coalition.
That's
working
statewide
to
advocate
for
changes
to
increase
enrollment
and
improve
transparency
in
policies
and
procedures.
D
My
office
in
the
Health
Department
has
also
been
working
with
child
care
providers
and
phl
pre-k
and
in
other
systems
to
help
them
enroll
in
a
program
called
the
child
and
adult
care,
Food
Program
that
has
nutritional
guidelines
and
reimburses
for
the
meals
that
are
served.
So,
though
there
is
progress
happening,
there
is
always
more
that
needs
to
be
done
or
could
be
done
differently.
D
We
would
be
happy
to
explore
additional
ways
that
we
can
fill
the
gaps
in
current
child
hunger
programs
and
address
the
food
needs
of
the
whole
household
in
a
way
that
increases
dignity
and
social
connection.
We
are
also
continuing
to
identify
upstream
solutions
for
food
program
providers
like
could
they
buy
food
together
or
think
about
delivery
logistics
that
can
increase
their
impact?
Lastly,
while
strengthening
the
hunger
safety
net
is
important,
it
is
just
as
important
to
build
ladders
out
of
poverty
that
make
real
changes
for
the
long
term,
policies
and
programs
that
ensure
living
wages.
D
Job
opportunities
and
education
are
also
critical
in
fighting
against
hunger.
It's
not
enough
for
children
to
be
fed.
Today,
though,
that
is
essential.
Their
families
and
communities
also
need
access
to
long-term
opportunities.
Going
back
to
the
story
I
shared
earlier,
we
have.
We
should
have
programs
that
make
fruits
and
vegetables
available
to
the
family,
but
we
also
need
to
make
sure
that
the
adult
has
more
than
two
dollars
available
for
dinner.
Some
of
these
changes
like
living
wages,
can
only
happen
with
city
pressure
at
this
in
federal
level.
D
In
the
meantime,
we
can
and
are
trying
to
make
changes.
Lastly,
hunger,
health
and
poverty
intersect
with
social
justice
and
racial
justice.
There
is
a
need
to
explicitly
acknowledge
the
ways
that
historical
structural
oppression
connects
with
current
day
health
and
opportunity.
The
city
has
started
this
assessment
with
its
racial
equity,
here
efforts
and
its
shared
prosperity
plan,
but
we
look
forward
to
additional
ideas
for
ways
that
we
can
integrate
this
into
our
anti-hunger
work
to
work
both
upstream
and
down.
Thanks
for
the
opportunity
to
testify,
I'd
be
happy
to
respond
to
questions.
E
F
Afternoon,
Councilwoman
and
Vice
Chair
Reynolds
brown,
councilman
Kemp,
chair
and
members
of
the
committee
of
children
to
youth
I
am
Wingra
Sela
senior
vice
president
at
the
Division
of
food
services
for
the
School
District
of
Philadelphia.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
testify
before
you
today
about
the
school
districts
initiative
to
provide
healthy
meals
to
Philadelphia
students
and
opportunities
for
increased
utilization
of
our
existing
school
meal
services.
The
district
offers
breakfast
lunch
and
dinner
meals
daily
without
charge
to
all
students
in
all
schools
and
select
charter
schools,
regardless
of
family
income
during
the
school
year.
F
We
also
provide
breakfast
and
lunch
to
students
enrolled
as
school
programming.
During
the
summer
free
breakfast
for
all
students
was
implemented
during
the
2011-12
school
year
and
free
lunch
was
expanded
from
75%
of
the
schools
to
all
schools
across
the
district
during
the
2014-15
school
year.
With
our
participation
in
the
community
eligibility
program
through
the
United
States
Department
of
Culture
free
dinner
meals
are
provided
at
select
schools
where
they
have
the
school
program.
You
currently
provide
annually
over
25
million
breakfast
lunch
and
dinner
meals
at
no
charge
to
one
hundred
thirty.
Six
thousand.
F
Six
hundred
kindergarten,
through
twelfth
grade
students
in
two
hundred
fifty-four
district,
alternative,
ed
charter
and
private
school
locations,
served
by
our
890
in-house
United
staff.
We
receive
no
district
or
city
of
Philadelphia
funding.
Instead,
we
operate
as
an
independent
and
a
prize
fund
whose
only
source
of
revenue
is
various
state
and
federal
student
meal
reimbursements
on
a
daily
basis.
We
serve
on
average
50
4500
breakfast
meals,
which
is
approximately
43%
of
attendance,
86,000
lunch
meals,
which
is
approximately
68%
of
our
attendance
and
5,000
after-school
dinner
meals.
F
During
the
summer
of
2018,
we
served
on
average
5,000
breakfast
and
6700
lunch
meals
to
students
involved
in
summer
programs
at
approximately
110
participating
school
locations.
The
division
of
food
service
has
been
focused
focused
on
increasing
breakfast
participation
over
the
past
few
years
is
well
established
in
the
literature
in
the
practice
that
eating
a
nutritious
breakfast
positively
impacts,
cognition
cognition,
while
skipping
breakfast
enters
it
eating
school
breakfast
is
associated
with
higher
attendance,
punctuality
and
academic
performance
at
the
school
district.
School
breakfast
is
part
of
a
broader
effort
to
address
student,
health
and
wellness.
F
We
are
strengthening
collaboration
across
departments
to
address
issues
identified
in
the
school
health
index
reports,
particularly
around
the
need
to
strengthen
implementation
of
certain
aspects
of
the
district's
Wellness
Policy.
The
central
level
level
wellness
committee
is
currently
big.
Rec
reorganized
to
support
the
whole
school
whole
community
whole
child
model
developed
by
the
center
of
this
Disease
Control.
F
This
effort
involves
many
internal
partners
such
as
eat,
right,
Philly,
Student,
Health,
Services,
food
services,
athletics,
health
and
education,
green
futures
and
external
partners
like
get
healthy,
Philly
increasing
school
breakfast
participation
is
one
of
the
important
strategies:
improving
nutrition
and
physical
activity
environments,
reducing
obesity
rates
and
increasing
student
readiness
to
learn.
We
recognize
that
we
have
room
for
growth
and
have
been
working
with
schools
and
stakeholders
over
the
past
few
years
to
unlock
the
doors
to
increasing
access
to
breakfast
for
our
students.
F
Large
school
districts
nationally
an
improvement
of
our
placement
of
forty
fifth
last
year
with
more
room
for
provement.
Our
comp
practice
goal
is
to
increase
the
average
daily
practice
participation
rate
from
43
percent
to
50
percent
of
students
in
attendance
by
June
of
2019.
To
reach
this
goal,
we
need
to
serve
an
additional
fifty
five
hundred
meals
to
our
students
across
the
district.
Each
day
we
can
achieve
this
goal,
but
we
need
support
breakfast
in
the
classroom
is
the
best
way
to
increase
breakfast
participation
rates.
F
The
district
is
committed
to
working
with
stakeholders
and
schools
to
keep
the
momentum
moving
to
ensure
all
students
have
access
to
healthy
breakfast
included
in
the
testimony
is
a
chart.
A
graph
that
shows
the
average
daily
breakfast
participation
by
council,
Matic,
District,
okay
I
understand.
We
also
were
requested
to
provide
more
data
in
the
individual
schools
which
we're
gathering
now.
F
So
what
have
we
achieved?
All
schools
are
improving
or
be
encouraged
to
add
an
alternative
breakfast
model.
This
will
provide
more
students
access
to
breakfast.
We
have
expanded
access
to
89%
of
our
schools,
offering
breakfast
after
the
bell
for
school
year.
18:19.
This
far,
we
are
meeting
with
interdisciplinary
teams
to
discuss
the
best
breakfast
models
for
each
school.
We
are
currently
implementing
the
food
and
research
ACTRA
Center
grant
awards
that
will
provide
additional
resources
and
funds
for
twenty
school
district
schools
to
improve
breakfast
programs.
F
We
have
targeted
30
schools
for
school
year,
1718
and
31
schools
for
this
current
school
year
school
year,
1819
to
have
an
alternative
breakfast
service
model
in
place.
We
are
monitoring
maintenance
schools
where
we
historically
serve
more
than
70%
of
students
in
tennis
practice.
To
continue
to
do
so.
We
are
working
with
community
partners
like
frac
American,
Dairy,
Association,
Northeast,
eat,
write,
help,
eat,
write,
Philly
to
improve
breakfast
acts.
We
seek
feedback
from
students
on
new
breakfast
items
during
the
annual
Food
Show
and
an
annual
student
survey
annually.
We
offer
contest
promotion
to
encourage
participation.
F
Looking
ahead,
food
service
will
continue
to
expand
breakfast
access
access
and
offer
alternative
models
to
provide
breakfast
to
these
students
that
need
it.
Food
service
will
continue
to
expand
the
group's
targeted
schools
while
moving
some
of
the
current
targeted
schools
to
the
maintenance
list.
The
Office
of
Research
and
evaluation
is
conducting
analysis
of
school
discovery,
data
to
look
at
breakfast
initiatives,
participation
rates
and
attendance
they're
also
conducting
a
qualitative
study
of
breakfast
implementation,
which
will
look
at
successes
and
challenges
with
regards
to
different
models
of
breakfast
delivery.
F
The
office
of
research
evaluation
is
looking
into
bringing
together
various
data
sets
on
health
nutrition,
academic
outcomes
in
order
to
better
target
schools
for
specific
interventions,
for
example,
fitness
levels,
BMI,
food
insecurity,
school
climate
attendance
nurse
visits
and
asthma
and
eat
rightfully
across
the
district,
is
supporting
breakfast
promotion
to
schools
by
providing
education,
promotional
events,
awareness
messaging
and
providing
technical
assistance
to
schools
to
connect
with
food
service,
alternative
breakfast
service
models.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
be
here
today
and
discuss
this
critical
issue.
A
G
Afternoon,
chairperson
Jim
and
the
committee
on
children
and
youth
I
am
Terry
Kauai,
which
the
program
director
for
Philadelphia
Parks
and
Recreation
I'm
here
to
testify
on
resolution
number
one.
Eight
zero,
eight
to
eight,
which
was
co-sponsored
by
councilperson
Reynolds
brown.
Knowing
that
food
insecurity
is
a
real
issue
for
children,
Philadelphia,
Parks
and
Recreation
is
continually
looking
for
ways
to
efficiently
and
effectively
improve
the
overall
Food
Program
and
increase
the
opportunity
for
children
to
receive
a
healthy
meal
at
present.
G
So
if
your
Parks
and
Recreation
operates
one
of
the
largest
summer
lunch
and
after
school
supper
programs
in
the
United
States
of
America
at
the
height
of
the
summer
lunch
program,
there
are
over
600
delivery
locations
throughout
the
city
where
meals
are
distributed.
The
Department
provides
2
million
meals
to
Philadelphia
youth
18
years
and
younger
throughout
the
year
during
the
Summer
Food
Service
Program,
which
is
an
extension
of
the
school
lunch
program
over
20,000
youth
per
day,
receive
a
meal
during
a
school
year.
Over
100
sites
receive
meals
serving
over
2,000
youth
per
day.
G
In
the
summer,
meals
are
provided
at
playgrounds,
recreation,
centers
and
community
day
camps,
where
children
can
partake
in
structured
programs
and
receive
a
healthy
breakfast
lunch
or
snack.
Additionally,
Philadelphia
Parks
and
Recreation
serves
over
400
play
streets
which
allow
youth
who
do
not
live
close
to
a
PPR
facility
to
have
a
safe
place
to
play
and
receive
lunch,
and
a
snack
during
summer
break
in
an
agreement
with
City
Council
pursuant
to
legislation
sponsored
by
council
person.
G
Blackwell
Parks
and
Recreation
also
provides
meals
on
select
designated
days
when
schools
are
closed,
but
the
city
is
still
open
to
afford
youth
the
opportunity
to
receive
a
healthy
meal.
This
feeding
program
for
children
is
citywide
and
takes
place
in
recreation.
Centers.
Thank
you
for
allowing
me
to
testify
on
this
very
important
matter
and
I'll
be
happy
to
respond
to
any
questions.
Thank.
B
So,
where
are
the
gaps
because
you're
all
doing
good
work,
it's
clear
that
there
will
maybe
not
be
there.
There
appears
to
be
silos.
Do
you
all
meet
around
this
issue
and
I
say
you
all
Department
of
Public
Health
Department
of
Parks
and
Rec
school
district?
Is
there
a
glue
group
that
sits
down
periodically
to
tackle
this
issue.
H
B
D
C
B
Okay,
so
this
is
the
stick
with
that:
okay,
because
that's
that's
a
big
piece
and
I've
heard
each
sector
speak
about
it.
Yeah
is,
is
there?
Is
there
glue
where
folks
sit
down
to
sort
of
shape
out
what
the
strategies
are
gonna
be
for
summer
2019?
Is
that
happening?
Yes?
And
how
often
do
you
all
meet.
B
Right
so
I've
heard
four
different:
where
do
all
roads
lead
to
do
they
lead
to
the
mayor's
Department
of
Education?
Do
they
lead
to
Department
of
Health
cuz
we're
here,
cuz
their
gaps?
Mm-Hmm?
We
have
all
this
great
resource
and
we're
not
getting
to.
Those
who
are
most
with
this
equation
is
all
about.
So
the
purpose
of
today
is
to
get
our
arms
around
tangible
actionable
strategies
so
that
we're
not
having
this
conversation
right
next
year.
D
Right
so
the
summer
meals
Coalition
is
co,
convened
by
Parks
and
Recreation
the
mayor's
office
of
education.
Okay,
the
health
department
is
a
part
of
that
all
of
the
large
summer
meal
sponsors
so
that
the
people
that
provide
different
summer
meals
participate
and
there's
been
an
analysis
of
where
were
there
summer,
where
were
there
summer
meal
sites
last
summer.
Okay,
where
are
the
gaps
in
relation
to
children
in
poverty?
How
can
we
have
a
coordinated
way
that
we
are
getting
the
word
out
to
people
about
how
to
become
a
summer
meal
site?
Yes
and.
C
C
D
Place
this
is
where
you
can
go
to
get
information
about
being
a
summer
meal
site
and
then
it'll
direct
people
to
Parks
and
Recreation
or
to
the
archdiocese
or
other
sponsors
depending
on,
if
it's
a
fit
for
them
and
that's
gonna
be
rolling
out
and
I
think
at
the
end
of
this
month,
and
we
are
helping
with
getting
social
media
ad
placement.
There's
also
going
to
be
radio.
B
D
It's
a
collaboration,
so
we
are
funding
it
as
the
Health
Department
we're
funding
some
social
media
ads.
Other
departments
are
putting
in
funds
for
newspaper
print
ads,
there's
think
people
thinking
about
their
networks
and
how
do
you
actually
go
out
and
person
and
get
this
word
out
so
there's
different
people
playing
different
roles?
Okay,.
B
And
that
all
right,
so
school
district
talked
to
us
more
about
soon
school
will
be
out
what
the
only
word
I
can
continue
to
use
redundantly
our
strategies
as
a
school
district.
Looking
at
before
you
know
we
lose
these
children
to
summer
activities
and
and
to
the
rec
department
and
other
kinds
of
things
during
the
summer.
One.
F
F
B
F
F
To
let
them
know
okay,
so
if
you're
coming
to
a
school
district
site
with
the
breakfast,
if
you're
enrolled
in
an
enrichment
program
over
the
summer,
we
will
provide
that
no
service,
but
also
to
start
to
to
communicate
where
they
can
get
more
information
about
summer
meal
programs
throughout
the
city.
Our.
F
B
That
would
be
a
non-traditional
space
to
look
where
children
and
parents
go
and
and
what
I'm
convinced
of
having
spent
five
years
in
higher
ed.
We
we.
If
we
only
went
to
high
schools,
we
would
have
never
met
our
numbers.
When
I
was
at
Penn
State,
we
had
to
go
to
non-traditional
places
to
recruit
students,
and
so
the
question
is
non-traditional,
like
dancing,
schools
and
and
summer
camps
and
separate
from
the
Department
of
Parks
and
Rec.
B
F
B
F
G
Street
supervisor,
so
we're
gonna
go
back
to
doing
a
more
public
advertising
push
for
that
to
try
and
recruit
more
sites.
We
also
have
our
folks
who
once
again
go
to
the
block
captain
rally
and
try
and
recruit.
You
know
some
people
there
who
may
be
interested
in
becoming
a
play,
Street
and
being
able
to
distribute
the
summer
meals
there
we're
also
working
with
the
mayor's
office
of
education
on
the
summer
of
wonder,
which
is
providing
some
additional
activities
at
the
play
streets.
A
B
F
B
Okay,
so
so
so
having
been
a
form
of
social
worker
and
knowing
that
there's
seven
different
learning
styles,
you
have
to
meet
people
at
different
places.
Robocalls
might
work
for
some
family
ain't
gonna
work
for
folks
who
rely
on
something
coming
home,
tangible
in
the
mail,
because
you
may
not
reach
those
families,
so
one
recommendation
I
would
offer
up
for
consideration
is
layer.
The
outreach
do
not
rely
on
one
medium.
B
If
you
will
I
think
council
has
a
role
in
that
we
could
do
PSAs
on
Channel
six
to
64,
and
so
we
should
be
seeing
them
at
nauseam.
You
know
April
and
May
as
we
get
ready
for
June
if
we
are
serious
about
tackling
this
way,
tackling
that
this
issue,
so
that
we
don't
have
to
have
this
kind
of
conversation
a
year
from
now.
So
that's
just
off
the
top
of
my
head
I
want
to
invite
myself
to
those
meetings.
B
So
if
you
can
make
sure
that
my
office
just
to
listen
participate,
you
can't
stand
on
the
sidelines.
If
you
want
to
change
something,
you
have
to
get
in
the
mix
right
call
someone
again.
Yes,
so
I!
Remember
my
team
would
like
to
be
a
part
of
those
conversations,
at
least
in
the
short
run,
so
that
this
horrible
statistic
we're
hearing
we
can
get
rid
of
the
families
that
are,
you
know
just
hungry,
for
something
as
simple
as
food
just
heart-wrenching.
Thank
you
for
the
work
that
you
do.
B
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you
very
much.
Councilman
Reynolds
Brown.
Yes,
so
I
had
a
few
questions.
Does
Department
of
Parks
and
Rec
and
school
district
track
hunger,
one
that
we
know
that
you
have
Pro,
you
know
you
can
track
participation.
Do
you
actually
track
or
survey
your
participants
about
questions
about,
have?
Are
they
food
insecure?
Have?
How
often
are
they
food
insecure?
How
often
do
they
go
hungry?
What
are
the
strategies
that
they
currently
have
to
address
the
hunger
needs
or
a
crisis
in
the
family
I
know.
G
A
One
of
the
questions
that
we've
got
going
on
so
we
were,
we
typically
rely
on
census
data
or
you
know
self
reporting,
data
about
hunger
needs,
but
I
think
one
of
my
questions
in
order
to
do
this
is
to
go
a
little
bit
deeper
into
individuals
who
actually
participate
in
our
programs
about
whether
we
can
understand
hunger
in
a
much
more
targeted
way
and
because
we're
dealing,
particularly
with
children,
who
don't
often
get
reported
on
about
hunger.
They
can't
self
report,
for
example
along
census
data
lines.
A
It
would
really
be
I
think
helpful,
particularly
for
if
Parks
and
Rec
and
at
the
school
district
recognizing
that
you
absolutely
must
track.
You
know,
program,
participation
and
all
of
those
things,
but
part
of
the
topic
that
we're
looking
at
is
the
specific
issue
of
hunger
and
unpacking.
What
are
the
significant
barriers
that
individuals
have?
A
F
I
just
clarify
one
thing:
the
angled
survey
that
we
do
it's
for
students,
it's
not
for
parents,
so
that
would
in
terms
of
hunger,
we
do
ask.
How
often
do
you
have
breakfast
or
lunch?
You
know
those
kind
of
things,
but
we
do
not.
We
would.
It
would
be
difficult
for
us
to
ask
question
like
that
to
a
students,
but
we'll
speak
to
our
office
of
resource
evaluation,
to
see
how
we
can
gather
that
data.
We
present
at
your
office
with
that
over
over
time.
So
we
do
a
lot
of
participation,
data
tracking.
F
A
A
Could
you
clarify
a
little
bit,
because
my
understanding
has
been
that
the
primary
complaint
about
doing
breakfast
in
the
classroom
at
the
school
district
level
has
been
that
principals
feel
short-staffed
or
there
isn't
kind
of
a
an
understanding
about
how
the
first
period
teacher
could
adjust
this
into
the
schedule
and
make
it
not
seem
like
you're
taking
away
from
my
learning
time?
How
can
it
become
better?
A
So
this
is
a
way
for
us.
You
know,
there's
a
question
on
the
board:
discuss
it
in
your
groups,
while
you
eat
breakfast
and
then
so
on.
So
the
barriers
that
we
see
are
that
principals
don't
generally
understand
how
to
manage
the
program
and
then
the
second
biggest
complaint
that
we've
heard
is
the
lack
of
school
support
staff
to
do
clean
up.
So
have
you
heard
some
of
these
things
or
what's?
Has
there
been
some
discussion
internally
about
how
to
address
it?
Yes,.
F
I
believe
you
know
the
number
moves
I
believe
we
have
about
140
locations
that
have
breakfast
in
classroom
at
some
level
and
I
can
get
that
actual
number
for
you.
Actually,
there
are,
there
are
I.
Think
94%
of
our
schools
have
an
alternative
to
cafeterias.
In
addition
to
cafeteria
service,
it's
a
breakfast
in
a
classroom,
but
there's
carts
in
a
hallway
and
again
I
mentioned
it
at
that.
It
was
89%
of
the
schools
have,
after
after
the
bell
breakfast
service,
which
is
which
is
incredible
now
just
for
I
guess,
for
the
record,
I
mean
penetrative.
F
Part
of
education
allows
breakfast
and
classroom
as
part
of
instructional
day,
so
that
barrier
is
is,
is
off
the
table
if
there
are
hundred
forty
schools
that
are
doing
it
at
some
level,
it's
obviously
doable
now,
in
addition
to
that,
over
the
past
couple
of
years,
we
have
not
only
provided
whatever
equipment
they
need,
but
we're
also
providing
additional
staff
at
the
school
level.
Okay,
so
if
a
principal
says,
hey
we'll,
do
breakfast
in
a
classroom,
okay,
I'll
assign
additional
staff
to
that
school
to
help.
F
Take
the
meals
up
to
the
school,
to
the
classrooms,
to
help
collect
trash,
bring
it
down
to
the,
and
we
have
done
that-
probably
in
4050
buildings,
just
this
year
alone,
whether
it's
just
adding
additional
hours
or
adding
it
to
the
current
staff
or
adding
additional
bodies
to
help
support
that
effort.
So
it
is
doable
and
we'll
do
whatever
principal
asked
us
to
do
to
try
to
make
this
work,
and
it
can
be
done
it
and
most
of
successful
programs.
F
They
engage
the
students
in
that
process
like
k,
school
and
and
and
and
and
principal
Chun,
has
a
great
program
there.
Where
students
come
down,
they
pick
up.
The
meals
are
ready
to
take
them
upstairs
they
provide
a
meal.
The
teachers
they're
served
whatever's
left
over
the
children,
bring
it
back
downstairs.
We
go
collect
the
trash
whatever
it
may
be,
and
in
addition
to
that,
we're
also
providing
plastic
bins
in
the
classroom.
F
Okay,
to
avoid
some
infestation
issues,
and
what
that
means
is
that
if
a
child
takes
a
meal,
we
can't
bring
that
back
down
and
reuse
that
meal
adit
that's
by
federal
regulation.
So
if
it's,
if
it's
a
non-perishable
item
like
like
a
piece
of
fruit
or
maybe
like
a
packaged
item
like
a
muffin
or
something
like
that,
they
can
put
it
in
a
plastic
bin
and
they
can
offer
to
the
children
as
a
reward
or
a
snack
later
on
in
a
day
if
they
need
that.
C
F
A
F
A
F
Cafeterias
and
we
will
have
approximately
131
pre
plate
programs
now
some
of
them
are
annexes,
leased
properties,
etc.
So,
there's
small
smaller
problems,
but
approximately
I
know
it's
greater
than
60%
I
believe
it's
somewhere
around
65%
of
the
students
now
back
to
the
full-service
operations.
The
problem
we're
running
into
right
now
is
that
of
the
130
locations
remaining
approximate.
We
identified
four
foods
within
food
service
level
about
30.
F
More
could
be
converted
to
full
service
operations
because
we
feel
that
they
have
a
space
and
have
some
of
the
characteristics
required
to
convert
them,
but
now
what's
happening,
we're
getting
into
a
place
where
we
have
to
penetrate
walls.
We
have
to
expand
into
faculty
lounges
and
adjacent
space,
and
it's
becoming
more
of
a
costly
construction
which
is
outside
a
scope
of
food
services,
but
we're
going
to
continue
to
move
forward
with
that
effort
over
the
last
five
years,
I
think
we
converted
60
60
schools
to
full-service
cafeteria,
so
we're
pretty
proud
of
that.
F
A
So
a
couple
of
quick
questions
when
a
when
we're
doing
a
new
school
building
up
in
West
Philadelphia
can't
remember,
is
a
barre,
school
or
another
one
of
the
schools
that
we
visited
and
then
there's
a
new
Austin
me
in
school.
Will
those
have
full
service
cafeterias,
like
all
new
school
buildings,
have
full
service,
not
sure.
A
It's
part,
so
one
of
the
concerns
that
was
heard
is
that
you
know
this
question
of
like
access
to
fruit
and
vegetables.
We've
had
this
discussion
before,
are
the
full
service
cafeterias
in
a
better
position
to
serve
a
wider
variety
of
options
for
young
people,
particularly
not
only
at
lunch,
but
also
have
breakfast
like
do
you
have
you
tracked
about
whether
their
food
offerings
include
a
concentration
of
fruit
and
vegetables
that
are
not
like
applesauce
and
stuff.
F
F
But
we
we
put
a
wee
bit
out
RFP
the
pre
plate
contract
two
years
ago,
when
a
second
year
of
a
three-year
contract
there
was,
there
was
significant
enhancements
put
into
that
RFP
and
we
we
have
several
external
partners
that
have
been
students
and
and
principals
and
staff
that
were
involved
in
dissecting
the
the
specifications
to
come
up
with
a
more
enhanced
meal
offering
to
the
pre
plate
purpose,
which
included
more
fresh
fruits
and
vegetables.
South
side
salads
were
out
of
season
fruits
and
vegetables
whole
whole
muscle
proteins.
F
Some
significant
enhancements
went
into
the
pre
plate
contract
and
one,
and
it
was
it
was.
It
was
quite
an
investment
back
into
the
cost
of
providing
the
meal.
But
as
best,
we
could
tell
from
a
customer
taste
testings
and
feedback
from
students
that
these
enhancements
have
have
really
been
recognized
by
the
customer
itself,
and
so
we're
pretty
proud
proud
of
where
we
are
right
now,
with
our
pre
plate
program.
Yeah.
A
No
I
appreciate
that
and
I
think
that
that
was
one
of
the
main
reasons
why
people
fought
so
hard
to
see.
You
know
like
experimental,
like
efforts
to
really
diversify
them.
The
meal
offerings,
particularly
for
pre
plate
because
I
mean
there's
just
gonna,
be
a
certain
number
of
schools
that
aren't
gonna
have
the
full
service
options.
A
Obviously
you
you
talk
about
customer
service,
but
you
know,
kids
will
definitely
tell
you
how
they
feel
about
their
meals,
and
so
you
know
to
the
extent
that
we're
really
like
getting
kids
excited
about
meal
time
and
not
rushing
it
and
not
having
that
feel
like
a
frenetic
kind
of
like
scream
fest
in
the
cafeteria,
but
really
just
having
that
de-escalating
about.
You
know
quiet
time
and
everything
like
that.
A
Whether
there
are
both
improvements
around
the
meal
offerings
as
well
as,
like
you
know,
a
little
bit
more
care
about
not
you
know,
some
of
our
schools
are
really
big,
obviously,
but
that
we're
trying
not
to
rush
it.
So
much,
and
so
you
know
I'll
be
happy
to
continue
this
conversation
a
little
bit
more,
but
it's
it's
still
an
incredible
passion
of
mine
and
fascinating
to
see.
You
know
yeah
how
it's
been
evolving
over
the
years
so
and.
F
B
You
please
map
for
me
by
council
Matic
district,
those
locations
where
the
summer
food
programs
are
so
that
we
can
see
how
we
can
do
some
kind
of
comparison,
look
see
at
Cal
somatic
districts
and
what
what
period
the
information
will
reveal
itself.
But
if
you
can
you
do
that
for
us?
How,
by
when
is
April
1
reasonable
dual
bore?
No
tell
me
what
works.
B
A
Thank
you
all
so
much
we're
excited
to
have.
You
testify
a
couple
of
things
just
to
think
about.
We
have
to
be
out
of
here
before
five
minutes
before
three
o'clock,
because
we
have
another
press
conference.
We
want
to
make
sure.
So
we
have
your
written
testimony.
I
know
the
powerhouse
of
information
that
you
all
bring
can
help
us
guide,
particularly
towards
recommendations
for
us,
so
to
the
extent
that
you
want
to
use
your
time
to
tailor
it
towards
the
recommendations.
A
We
have
reviewed
your
testimony
already
for
in
terms
of
background
and
the
the
crisis,
but
I
know
that
myself
and
the
councilmember
are
really
both
desirous
of
an
in
need
of
some
real
strategies
that
direct
the
city
to
do
better.
So
with
that
dr.
Chilton,
if
you
could
just
state
your
name
for
the
record-
and
you
may
proceed
with
your
testimony,
hi.
I
C
I
Our
research
has
found
that
not
only
is
income
poverty
associated
with
food
insecurity,
but
also
that
food
and
food
insecurity
is
associated
with
exposure
to
violence.
So
today,
I
focus
on
income
and
on
violence.
We're
talking
about
the
problem
of
children
being
affected
by
food
insecurity.
I,
don't
want
us
to
get
hung
up
on
terminology,
but
you
can
look
at
my
written
testimony
that
gives
you.
The
descriptions
of
those
most
important
thing
to
remember
is
that
when
kids
go
hungry,
it's
a
sign
that
the
parents
need
financial
help
and
social
support.
I
My
research
has
shown
as
you've
decided
that
child
hunger
for
working
families
has
tripled
over
the
past
12
years
and
that
should
really
put
the
Philadelphia
business
community
on
notice,
because
that
means
low
wages
make
kids
go
hungry.
So
to
be
clear,
the
causes
of
food
insecurity
are
lack
of
adequate
income
and
assets
and
exposure
to
violence.
I
recommend
a
single
solution,
and
that
is
that
City
Council
should
create
a
citywide
plan
and
strategy
to
end
hunger
in
Philadelphia.
I
There
should
be
a
high-level
staff
person
to
work
on
the
plan,
make
it
public
and
keep
the
city
accountable.
This
plan
should
be
announced
through
a
city
ordinance
that
declares
that
access
to
healthy
food
is
a
basic
human
right.
The
right
to
food
can
not
be
provisioned
through
a
charity
model.
Rather,
the
city
should
ensure
families
have
entitlements
to
meet
their
basic
needs.
In
my
written
testimony,
I
identify
multiple
ways
to
ensure
the
right
to
food.
I
These
initiatives
include
supplementing
wages,
expanding
the
Earned
Income
Tax
Credit,
securing
unconditional
basic
income
for
TANF
eligible
families,
supplementing
snap
and
WIC
dollars
during
this
summer,
and
establishing
savings
accounts
that
build
assets
and
a
sense
of
future
for
the
children
of
Philadelphia,
because
exposure
to
violence
is
a
root
cause
of
hunger.
The
city
should
establish
trauma-informed
programming
throughout
city
services
that
support
families
and
integrate
more
ways
of
screening
and
treatment,
referral
to
address
violence
at
WIC
and
county
assistance
offices.
I
Reducing
food
insecurity
is
possible.
Our
program,
the
building
wealth
and
Health
Network,
which
works
with
caregivers
of
young
children
on
TANF,
focuses
on
improving
Economic
Security.
By
fostering
asset
building
through
trauma-informed
approaches
our
program
reduced
the
odds
of
food
insecurity
by
70
percent.
We
were
able
to
reduce
hunger
without
providing
food.
We
focused
on
building
economic
security
and
reducing
exposure
to
violence,
I
encouraged
city
council
to
make
a
serious
commitment
to
ensuring
the
right
to
food
for
all.
Many
of
us
are
here
at
the
ready
to
help
you
achieve
this
goal.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
H
Good
afternoon,
thank
you
for
inviting
me
to
speak
about
childhood
hunger
today
in
Philadelphia.
I
commend
all
of
you
on
your
work
and
thank
you
for
including
me
here.
My
name
is
Hilary
Stiebel
and
I
am
the
programs
manager
of
fill
abundance.
We
work
with
a
network
of
over
350
agencies
to
distribute
nearly
26
million
pounds
of
nutritious
food
throughout
our
region
each
year.
However,
a
recent
study
just
announced
that
the
issue
of
hunger
in
Philadelphia
has
grown
by
22
percent.
Philadelphia
is
an
aegis
nation's
largest
the
poorest
large
city.
H
According
to
the
latest
feeding
America
map
the
meal
gap
study,
seventy-five
thousand
children
in
Philadelphia
are
food.
Insecure
hunger
is
an
issue
of
resources
and
access.
We
believe
food
is
a
right,
not
privilege.
In
2012,
we
launched
our
kids
programs
to
specifically
meet
the
needs
of
children
and
since
have
distributed
nearly
600
thousand
pounds
of
food
through
our
innovative
programming.
Our
lunch
box
modeled
after
the
federal
summer
meals
program
provides
free
and
nutritious
ready-to-eat
meals
for
kids
under
18.
H
Without
the
paperwork
and
restrictions
to
consume
on-site,
the
backpack
program
provides
five
pounds
of
easy
to
prepare
meals
and
ready-to-eat
produce.
The
opt-out
model
has
been
praised
by
our
partners,
making
it
an
inclusive
experience
and
an
opportunity
for
leadership
and
nutrition
education
to
accomplish
our
work.
H
Fill
abundance
relies
on
volunteers,
food
and
monetary
donations
and
grants,
but
we
know
this
is
not
a
sustainable
solution
to
hunger
in
our
efforts
to
address
these
challenges
and
make
food
more
accessible,
fill
abundance
now,
partners
with
schools,
libraries
and
hospitals
to
meet
people
where
they're
already
connecting
for
other
resources.
We
recently
launched
a
new
model
and
partnership
with
chop
and
giant
food
stores,
fill
abundances
pivoting
in
our
work
to
not
just
end
hunger
today,
but
to
end
hunger
for
good.
H
We
want
to
partner
with
the
city
to
think
long
term
about
how
we
can
do
this,
but
we
need
your
support
to
achieve
the
goal
of
ending
child
hunger
and
fill
abundance
has
a
number
of
recommendations
included
in
my
written
testimony
today
today,
I'd
like
to
highlight
just
three
of
those.
First,
we
ask
that
the
council
to
coordinate
citywide
efforts
to
establish
clear
goals
and
metrics
to
address
hunger
and
achieve
outcomes.
We
asked
city
council
to
work
with
the
mayor
and
create
a
senior
policy
position
solely
focused
on
addressing
hunger.
H
Second,
we
need
your
support
for
innovative
public-private
partnerships
like
that
of
ours.
Partnership
with
chop
and
giant
the
city
should
do
more
financially
to
support
solution,
oriented
non-traditional
creative
concepts,
connecting
groups
and
creating
pathways
towards
ending
hunger.
We
need
you
to
promote,
advocate
and
support
our
federal
and
state
nutrition
programs.
H
Program
cuts
made
in
DC
or
Harrisburg
mean
less
for
Philadelphia
residents
and
underutilized
programs
mean
residents
are
not
accessing
the
food
that
can
help
support
their
families
as
I
sit
here
with
numerous
partners
and
advocates
today,
I
wonder
what
is
the
city's
goal
for
ending
childhood
hunger
and
how
do
you
plan
to
get
there
right
now?
The
nonprofit
organization,
schools,
healthcare
providers
and
housing
networks
are
working
together,
collaborating
and
bringing
our
best
to
the
table,
but
the
city
needs
to
take
the
lead
on
this
initiative.
H
J
Hello,
my
name
is
Kathy
Fisher
and
I'm
the
policy
director
at
the
coalition
against
hunger.
Thank
you
to
Councilwoman
Browns
Brown
for
sponsoring
the
resolution
that
brought
about
this
hearing
and
thank
you
to
members
of
council
for
taking
our
input
about
this
incredibly
important
issue.
I
will
get
right
to
the
point.
If
the
city
truly
wants
to
lessen
hunger
for
children,
we
all
need
to
be
working
together.
We
asked
city
council
to
work
with
the
mayor
to
create
a
senior
policy
position
solely
focused
on
address
food
insecurity.
J
This
person
would
oversee
the
development
of
a
city
plan
to
decrease
hunger
work
across
city
departments
and
with
other
allies
to
set
concrete
actionable
goals
and
be
accountable
to
Council
for
making
progress
on
those
goals.
We
are
all
aware
of
the
bleak
statistics,
our
city's
high
poverty
rate
and
even
higher
child
poverty
rate
and
the
persistent
food
insecurity
that
plagues
far
too
many
members
of
our
communities.
J
However,
this
morning,
I'd
like
to
share
an
observation
that
is
often
missed
in
the
statistics,
while
our
city's
child
poverty
rate
is
extraordinarily
high,
impacting
one
in
three
children
more
than
one
in
three,
our
child
food
insecurity
rate
is
noticeably
lower.
There's
no
reason
for
celebration
how
this,
but
it's
at
least
an
indication
that
there
are
interventions
that
help
one
way
that
children
are
protected
from
hunger
is
simply
through
the
efforts
of
the
adults
around
them.
The
parents,
grandparents
and
others
who
go
without
to
provide
for
their
children.
J
This
difficult
to
quantify
defense
against
hunger
should
not
be
minimized.
The
city
certainly
needs
to
continue
its
work
to
help
families
gain
income,
but
what
other
supports
exists
to
help
protect
children
from
food
insecurity,
the
federal
child,
nutrition
programs
that
provide
breakfasts,
lunches,
snacks
and
even
suppers
at
schools,
childcare,
centers
and
other
programs
in
neighborhoods
across
the
city?
J
J
We
certainly
do
not
have
the
luxury
of
turning
down
funds
that
can
help
food
for
child
nutrition
programs
is
a
hundred
percent
federally
funded
a
majority
of
Philadelphia
children
are
eligible,
yet
we
are
not
leveraging
these
programs
to
the
full
extent
possible,
while
the
there
are
countless
schools,
child
cares
and
other
nonprofit
agency
staff
working
to
provide
children
adequate
nutrition.
There
is
no
coordinated,
citywide
effort
to
promote
and
maximize
the
use
of
these
programs.
J
Second,
all
too
often
we
find
that
something
that
is
everyone's
job
ends
up
being
no
one's
job.
When
program
says
this
exists
in
silos,
with
no
overarching
vision
to
ensure
cooperation
and
efficient
coordination,
both
across
city
departments
and
sector's
the
status
quo
remains.
This
is
why
a
new
approach
under
a
senior-level
policy
person
is
needed.
Lastly,
a
clear
plan
can
yield
results
and
lessen
child
hunger.
Child
nutrition
programs
already
serve
thousands
and
thousands
of
Philadelphia
children
each
day.
J
Many
successful
programs,
both
here
and
in
other
cities,
can
share
strategies
and
best
practices
information
to
guide
improvements.
While
we
will,
we
will
not
be
starting
from
square
one.
The
city
plan
must
take
a
critical
look
at
children
who
are
being
left
behind
and
confront
the
inequities
that
abound.
We
still
have
dozens
of
public
schools
reaching
far
too
few
students
with
breakfast
too
many
areas
of
the
city
where
children
do
not
have
access
to
summer
meals
throughout
the
full
summer
and
too
many
families
facing
barriers
such
as
limited
English
proficiency
to
access
critical
nutrition
programs.
J
A
K
Name
is
Linda
Colby
and
I'm.
The
executive
director
of
north
incorporated
the
managers
of
the
WIC
program
here
in
Philadelphia
I'd
like
to
thank
you,
council
person,
Blondell
Reynolds,
Brown
and
her
peers
for
inviting
us
to
come
and
discuss
this
very
important
topic.
Over
the
past
five
years
we
have
seen
our
WIC
caseloads
decline.
We
have
gone
from
approximately
65,000
participants
in
Philadelphia
County
to
less
than
54,000.
We
have
gone
from.
K
Down
to
having
nine,
this
would
be
great
news
if
the
decline
could
be
attributed
to
the
reduction
in
food
and
security
and
nutrition
risk
factors,
but
that's
not
the
case
and
in
our
program
we
have
seen
that
the
numbers
have
gone
down
for
several
reasons
that
I'd
like
to
present
just
three
of
them
to
you
today.
One
is
citizenship
status,
so
many
of
the
people
who
are
eligible
for
WIC
benefits
feel
that
they
have
to
be
citizens
in
order
to
receive
WIC
benefits.
K
This
is
not
true,
but
in
addition
to
that,
because
of
the
changes
in
Washington
over
the
past
two
years,
they
are
afraid
to
come
phoebus's
for
fear
that
their
citizenship
can
be
challenged
in
the
future
or
that
they
can
be
deported.
The
second
reason
is
the
lack
of
available
resources
to
conduct
citywide
outreach.
In
the
past
we
have
been
very
active
in
participating
in
riichi
outreach
efforts
with
other
social
service
programs,
but
because
of
a
significant
reduction
in
funding
in
the
past
year,
1.47
seven
million
dollars.
We
can
no
longer
do
those
things.
K
The
third
is
access
to
eligible
families.
During
the
past
twelve
months,
we
have
been
forced
to
close
to
WIC
offices.
One
of
them
was
at
Kensington
and
Allegheny,
and
the
second
one
was
on
Lehigh
Avenue.
The
changes
that
we
had
to
make
because
of
this
significant
reduction
in
funding
have
caused
real
problems
for
our
clients.
As
you
know,
we
live
in
a
city
of
neighborhoods
and
many
people
do
not
leave
their
neighborhoods
for
services.
So,
if
we're
not
able
to
provide
service
in
their
neighborhood,
that's
a
problem.
K
K
This
person
would
be
able
to
conduct
citywide
outreach
initiatives
and
bring
together
all
the
pieces
of
the
food
puzzle
so
that,
as
a
city,
we
can
approach
the
end
of
hunger
in
a
more
strategic
manner.
The
person
in
this
position
could
work
with
food
and
nutrition
programs
to
address
the
issues
and
the
barriers
that
we
are
facing
in
regards
to
providing
hunger
relief
services.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
inviting
me
and
I
hope
that
this
is
just
the
beginning
of
what
we
can
do
to
solve.
The
problem.
Thank.
A
B
Yes,
yes,
I'll,
be
brief.
So
before
I
get
to
two
questions
above
my
desk
in
my
office
I
had
this
quote:
whose
job
is
it
there's
a
story
about
four
people
named
Everybody,
Somebody
Anybody
and
nobody.
There
was
an
important
job
to
be
done
and
everybody
was
sure
somebody
would
do
it.
Anybody
could
have
done
it,
but
nobody
did
it.
Somebody
got
angry
about
that
because
it
was
everybody's
job.
Everybody
thought
anybody
could
do
it,
but
nobody
realized
that
everybody
wouldn't
do
it.
B
It
ended
up
that
everybody
blames
somebody
when
nobody
did
what
anybody
could
have
done.
That's
the
context
of
what
I'm
hearing,
and
so
with
that,
yes
Councilwoman
Gilman's
right.
We
hear
the
message
loud
and
clear
that
there
needs
to
be
the
glue
to
tie
all
these
parts
together
and
so
the
maternity
care
coalition.
Is
there
any
relationship
with
the
maternity
care
coalition
who's
in
the
business
of
capturing
children
early
with
regards
to
what
their
needs
are?
It's
just
a
question.
I'm
just
curious.
K
B
B
So
that
linkage
already
exists.
Yes,
the
role
of
the
health
centers,
someone
said
it
as
I
was
writing
it
down
and
the
health
department
may
have
left.
But
do
you
know
if
there
is
information,
a
promotion
of
the
Summer
Food
Program
at
our
city's
health,
centers
I'm,
just
asking
I,
don't
know
I,
don't.
B
So
then,
lastly,
I
too
was
very
excited
about
the
chopped
giant
partnership
and
I'm,
looking
forward
to
a
similar
kind
of
Enterprise
happening,
Councilwoman
quinones
Sanchez
helped
me
remember
the
hospital
in
your
district,
the
Children's
Hospital
st.
Christopher's.
Yes,
yes,
yes,
so
our
record.
If
someone
could
tell
me
who
we
speak
to
at
chop
and
giant
because
that's
huge
in
terms
of
what
it's
going
to
do
in
that
section
of
the
city
and
Councilwoman
quinones
Sanchez
district
is
certainly
benefit
from
a
similar
kind
of
of
partnership.
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
testimony.
A
L
K
Has
improved
because
they
come
once
a
year
instead
of
once
every
once
months,
yes,
and
they
can
apply
online,
and
now
that
and
I
guess
in
the
past
four
years
we
have
worked
with
the
delivery
hospitals
so
that
when
they,
when
the
child
is
born,
the
hospital
staff,
email,
us
or
fax
us
the
information.
So
we
have
the
ability
to
contact
the
families
within
those
first,
two
or
three
days
of
birth.
That
has
been
very
helpful.
K
The
state
WIC
system
is
in
flux
right
now,
two
three
weeks
ago
they
began
the
new
PIN
computer
system
and
the
first
three
counties
began
using
EBT
cards.
Electronic
benefit
cards.
Philadelphia
does
not
begin
this
process
until
november,
so
I
think
that
the
EBT
cards
will
make
it
a
lot
better.
It'll
make
it
easier.
My
major
concern
right
now
is
that
so
many
of
the
people
who
are
in
greatest
need
are
afraid
to
come
for
benefits.
They
are
afraid
that
if
they
come,
it
will
affect
their
citizenship
or
their
chances
for
citizenship.
K
We
have
worked
with
nurse
Family
Partnership
so
that
if
they
are
seeing
some
of
these
families
they
can
come
and
become
proxy
for
them.
So
they
don't
have
to
come
every
two
to
three
months
to
get
their
benefits.
But
I
don't
know
what
the
answer
is
when
people
are
being
told
over
the
media,
if
you
go
you're
going
to
be
deported,
yeah.
L
We're
very
much
interested
I
know:
councilman
Goodman
I
will
definitely
follow
up
with
our
immigration
advocates
around
messaging
and
and
some
sort
of
level
of
coordinating
I
know
as
we
roll
out
the
municipal
ID
program,
I'm
thinking
about
and
we're
gonna
be
doing
mobile
sites.
The
opportunity
to
also
have
to
do
some,
some
sharing
one
last
technical
question
again,
because
the
issue
of
coordinating
among
the
various
institutions.
What's
the
data
sharing
between
the
school
district
and
the
WIC
offices
around
children,.
K
J
We
have
us
the
Department
of
Health
at
the
state
level,
to
do
data
sharing
with
HS
around
families
that
are
receiving
snap
and
have
toddlers
who
are
not
enrolled
in
WIC.
They
are
working
on
it,
but
it's
not
happening
yet,
and
the
other
thing
that
the
Department
of
Health
could
do
is
make
it
easier
for
WIC
clients
to
have
their
income
electronically
verified
through
the
system.
That
is
not
the
WIC
agencies
fault,
but
that's
not
happening,
but
that
can
happen
with
other
programs.
Snap
and
Medicaid.
J
L
I
think
we
have
to
again
we
we
know
there's
a
hundred,
seventy-five
thousand
children
at
the
school
district
and
we
all
suffer
during
the
summer.
You
know
when
we
know
the
drop-off
is
going
to
happen.
I
just
think
we
need
to
figure
out
a
data
sharing
mechanism
so
that
those
families
have
a
streamlined
way
of
doing
this
right,
so
even
some
school-based
enrollment
when
we're
doing
kindergarten,
registration
and
we're
doing
so
that
that
just
elevates
the
need
for
this
one
person
that
could
really
help
coordinate
some
of
these
systems
pieces
together.
Thank
you,
ladies
thank.
A
A
Hello
and
welcome
for
many
of
you,
we
already
have
your
testimony,
so
if
you
again
could
keep
it
short.
Unfortunately,
we
have
to
end
the
hearing
before
a
press
conference
shortly
before
3:00.
So
I
want
to
thank
everybody
for
being
here
and
giving
us
your
time
on
this
important
issue.
Why
don't
we
start
with
Ms
lung,
but
welcome
to
see
council
if
you
could
just
state
your
name
for
the
record,
and
you
may
proceed
with
their
testimony
sure.
M
Thank
you
good
afternoon.
My
name
is
Leanne
long
and
I
want
to
thank
you
for
having
me
today
to
talk
about
my
project
food-for-thought.
My
project
focuses
on
combating
hunger
in
Pennsylvania,
through
donations
from
supermarkets
and
restaurants.
Not
only
is
this
an
opportunity
to
reduce
hunger,
but
also
to
help
the
environment
and
to
eliminate
waste,
which
you
will
see
in
my
research.
This
project
is
an
effort
to
benefit
everyone.
People
who
need
food
but
are
unable
to
pay,
will
get
it
and
everybody
will
benefit
from
the
healthier
earth.
M
I've
been
researching
both
successful
and
unsuccessful
acts
toward
combating
hunger.
I
have
been
in
contact
with
a
couple
different
people,
such
as
the
assistant
manager
of
a
Panera
Bread
franchise,
mr.
Mike
shank,
who
provided
me
with
all
of
the
details
and
best
methods
employed
for
food
donation
by
a
restaurant,
as
well
as
with
the
manager
of
the
Ardmore
food
pantry,
Karen
Kaminski's,
who
not
only
gave
me
feedback
on
my
project
and
food
donating
in
general,
but
also
gave
me
less
logistical
and
factual
information
and
more
emotional.
M
She
works
weekly
with
her
community
and
is
genuinely
empathy
driven
and
as
true
proximity
to
the
issue.
Helping
me
see
from
the
heart
rather
than
from
statistics
at
the
germination
project.
Gala
I
had
the
honor
of
meeting
Philadelphia
Councilwoman
blonde
out
brown
now
I'm
here
today
to
better
understand
the
problems
with
donating
food
and
further
emphasize
the
evident
issue
of
hunger
that
must
be
tackled
in
an
effective
manner.
M
I
will
continue
to
work
locally,
but
I
can
only
drive
so
far
and
convinced
so
many
people,
but
with
encouragement
of
or
any
legislative
actions
taken
by
the
Philadelphia,
City
Council
I
am
hoping
so
many
more
places
of
food
production
will
be
on
board.
Establishing
more
concrete
regulations,
accessibility
and
protection
for
these
places
would
also
be
incredibly
crucial
because
the
fear
of
a
lawsuit
should
be
the
last
thing.
Keeping
food
from
a
person
who
is
hungry.
M
Some
additional
thoughts
I
have
about
addressing
hunger
is
following
Frances
model
in
constructing
a
bill
that
requires
certain
areas
of
food
production
to
donate
excess
food,
as
in
France,
the
law
says,
quote
all
supermarkets
over
four
thousand
three
hundred
four
square
feet
in
size
must
hold
contracts
with
nonprofits
or
food
banks.
End
quote,
according
to
USA,
Today
and
stores
may
be
fined
four
thousand
five
hundred
dollars
for
not
following
the
law.
Now
everybody
in
my
community,
whether
at
school
with
my
friends,
are
at
home.
M
Everyone
is
fully
aware
that
I
am
a
food
fanatic,
growing
up
with
parents
who
were
forced
to
escape
their
home
country
during
a
period
of
war.
I
have
always
been
taught
the
value
of
food
and
to
never
waste
any
of
it.
I
am
extremely
grateful
that
I
have
not
been
in
the
situation
where
I
was
starving
for
a
long
period
of
time.
M
I
have
only
experienced
an
ounce
of
that
when
I
fasted
for
a
family
member
that
passed
away,
but
my
parents
have
explained
to
me
the
feeling
of
starvation
and
the
fear
of
not
knowing
where
your
next
meal
may
be.
That
emotion
is
something
I
wish.
No
one
would
be
forced
to
feel
a
situation.
I
wish.
No
one
would
have
to
experience,
let
alone
children.
M
It
is
truly
an
injustice
for
safe
and
healthy
food
to
be
thrown
out
when
there
are
food,
insecure
people,
and
even
if
I
am
individually
unable
to
construct
a
long
list
of
participating,
restaurants
and
supermarkets
or
my
legislative
recommendations
are
unable
to
be
implemented.
At
least
this
will
spark
some
food
for
thought.
Thank
you.
A
N
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
Nick
Franchino
managing
director
of
the
economy
week,
Greater
Philadelphia,
chair,
Jim,
Vice,
Chair,
Reynolds,
Brown,
councilmember,
Canaris
Sanchez.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
testify
today
on
child
hunger
in
Philadelphia.
I
would
start
with
two
high-level
observations
about
food
related
landscape.
In
Philadelphia
there
exists
what
we
consider
to
be
a
deep
rift
on
one
hand.
Philadelphia
has
some
real
and
expertise
around
food,
whether
that
is
the
rising
profile
of
our
restaurants
and
bars.
N
The
deep
community
legacy
and
tradition
now
around
community
gardening,
or
real
corporate
and
industrial
expertise
around
food
processing,
production
distribution.
There's
real
strengths
here
that
are
related
to
food,
but
then,
at
the
same
time
as
we've
been
hearing
today,
there's
some
really
stark
and
deeply
ingrained
food
related
challenges
around
access
to
food,
hunger
and
the
underlying
factors
around
income,
access
to
opportunity
and
jobs.
N
Just
briefly
today
about
an
initiative
called
the
full
city
challenge
that
we
have
partnered
with
local
news
site,
Billy
Penn
on
to
try
and
do
just
that
so
and
I
will
say
that
there
is,
as
we
have
seen
today,
an
impressive
array
of
organizations
and
initiatives
that
are
focused
on
addressing
these
issues,
but
with
the
top-line
indicators,
not
moving
in
the
right
direction.
Fast
enough.
It's
clear
that
there's
a
real
need
for
more
I.
N
So
with
the
full
city
challenge,
we've
partnered,
with
local
news
site,
Billy
Penn,
to
issue
a
call
to
the
community
for
ideas
taking
what
is
best
about
leveraging
what's
best
about
our
food
economy
and
our
food
scene
here
to
tackle
issues
of
food
security,
food
insecurity
and
hunger
and
the
underlying
causes.
We
went
into
this
somewhat
blindly,
not
knowing
what
type
of
response
or
interest
we
would
get.
N
We
got
32
submissions,
including
over
from
over
a
hundred
from
across
the
city,
and
we
had
to
do
the
hard
work
of
whittling,
those
down
to
five
finalist
teams
that
we
put
through
what
we
call
a
rapid
incubator
workshop.
We
recruited
on
a
volunteer
basis,
almost
twenty
professionals
from
the
business
community,
the
Entrepreneurship
community,
the
food
industry
and
the
nonprofit
and
foundation
world
to
help
these
five
finalist
teams
refine
and
it
can
break
down
and
reconstruct
their
ideas.
N
They
then
pitched
their
ideas
at
a
public
event
at
Green
Soul
on
North
Broadway
had
six
food
industry
celebrity
judges
from
Philadelphia,
and
we
awarded
a
$5,000
prize
to
the
team
called
hospitality
together.
I
can
talk
a
little
bit
about
that
later
in
questions.
If
you
have
questions
to
implement
a
small-scale
pilot
of
their
idea.
At
the
same
time,
we
also
engage
the
crowdfunding
platform
GoFundMe
to
help
the
company
itself
to
help
our
finalist
teams
raise
money
together.
N
Get
job
experience
in
food
in
restaurants
and
bars,
while
also
studying
and
gaining
access
to
education
and
mentorship,
will
be
we're
partnering
with
Billy
Penn
vel
online
news
site
that
will
be
providing
ongoing
coverage
of
this
as
a
way
to
kind
of
raise
awareness
and
visibility
of
what
it
takes
to
actually
try
and
untangle.
These
very
complex
knots
and
civic
challenges
that
we're
talking
about
these
are.
This
is
a
new
way
that
the
economy
league
is
trying
to
put
itself
out
there
to
deploy
what
we
can
bring
to
the
table
to
address
complex
civic
challenges.
N
We
pick
food
as
the
first
example
or
is
the
first.
You
know
kind
of
issue
area
that
we're
focusing
on,
because
we
know
the
challenges
are
great,
but
we
also
have
some
great
assets,
food
and
we're
interested
in
finding
ways
that
we
can
build
on
our
strengths
as
a
community
to
tackle
some
of
our
biggest
challenges.
Thank
you
and
thank.
O
Thank
you
so
much
for
the
opportunity
to
speak.
My
name
is
Jake
sidechick
I'm
here
today,
representing
the
American
Heart
Association,
and
our
terrific
advocates.
My
work
with
the
American
Heart
Association
is
taking
me
really
all
throughout
this
city
to
meet
with
families,
specifically
families,
families
with
young
children.
Many
cases
in
non-traditional
spaces,
churches,
small
nonprofits,
community
groups,
retail
spaces,
you
name
it.
We
have
gone
out
to
these
locations
to
speak
with
families
in
this
city.
As
we
spoke
with
Philadelphians
all
throughout
this
city.
O
O
We
at
the
American
Heart
Association
would
support
a
policy
that
would
make
the
Beveridge
the
default
beverage
for
kids
meals,
either
water,
milk
or
100%
fruit
juice,
under
8
ounces,
for
all
restaurants
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
and
the
reason
we
believe
in
that
is
because
85%
of
families
in
the
nation
eat
at
restaurants
more
than
five
times
per
week.
So
we
need
to
get
these
families
and
get
these
children
where
they
already
are
in
these
non-traditional
spaces
and
have
a
conversation
about
having
a
healthier
options
and
making
healthier
choices.
O
Today,
I'd
wanted
to
bring
up
a
gentleman
chef,
Dennis
Ortiz,
who
had
a
chance
to
meet
at
the
25th
pal
district
in
the
Salvation
Army
building
right
there
who
does
cooking
demonstrations
with
children.
I've
worked
with
him
and
have
seen
the
great
work
he
has
done
with
five
and
six-year-olds
and
really
the
fun
times
that
he's
had
I'm
an
awful
cook.
So
he
always
helps
me
and
guides
me
myself.
So
I
do
thank
him
so
much
once
again.
I
just
want
to
before
I
conclude
in
pass
over
the
mic
to
chef.
O
Dennis
really
wanted
to
thank
councilman
Reynolds
Brown
this
afternoon
for
all
the
tremendous
work
that
she
has
done
and
children's
policy
throughout
her
amazing
career.
We
know
that
it's
not
over,
yet
we
know
you're
gonna
continue.
You
know
that
great
work
but
wanted
to
give
over
I
guess
past
the
Mike
I
know
you
only
have
a
few
minutes.
Sous
chef,
Dennis.
E
Giving
me
this
opportunity,
my
name
is
Dennis
Ortiz
and
I've
been
working
with
American
Heart
Association
for
the
last
three
years
and
like
Jacob
mentioned,
we've
been
everywhere
lately
since
last
year,
we've
been
also
tackling
schools,
junior
high
schools
and
also
kids,
that
are
five
six
seven
year
olds
as
well.
We
also
did
a
couple
of
summer
programs
with
Oakland
sealeo
nonprofit
organization,
which
sadhana's
benegas
are
helped
me
get
that
connected
with
I
was
great,
and
what
I've
noticed
is
that
kids
doing
a
healthy?
They
are
really
open
to
these
opportunities.
E
When
you
are
faced
with,
you
know,
living
in
a
place
where
you
don't
have
that
many
choices
and
everything
that's
advertised
is
either
junk
food,
etc.
You
know
junk
food
comes
along
with
a
junky
drink.
Basically,
and
you
know
I
believe
in
this
bill
that
we
shouldn't
you
know
implement,
because
it's
something
that
kids
are
open
to
I
think
it's
important
that
kids
start
a
healthy
lifestyle
from
the
beginning.
These
are
things
that
are
gonna
stick
with
them,
because
me
I've
been
on
my
own.
You
know
personal
mission
to
become
a
healthier
version
of
myself.
E
I
also
believe
that
a
lot
of
the
choices
I
made
when
I
was
young,
contributed
to
the
hardships
I
faced
to
this
day
and
continue
struggling
sometimes
so
they
were
not
asking
for
much.
All
we
want
is
to
implement
a
healthier
drink
option,
which
would
be
a
great
start
to
motivating
our
youth
to
a
healthier
lifestyle.
A
healthier
Philly
I
truly
hope
that
a
concrete
policy
indeed
goes
through
and
gets
in
place
so
that
we
can
get
started.
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
time.
I
really
cheating
you.
C
A
B
N
B
M
B
A
You
very
much
thank
you
very
much.
This
panel
is
there
anyone
else
who
is
here
who
would
like
to
testify
to
this
resolution,
seeing
none
the
public
resolution
on
hearing
on
resolution
number
one:
eight
zero.
Eight
two
eight
is
recessed
to
the
call
of
the
chair.
Thank
you,
everybody
for
your
attendance
here.
Thank
you.