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Community Action Center Whitman County

Community Action Center Whitman County

Implementing Agency (IA)

Department of Health

Key Contacts

Amy Sigman
IA Co-Lead
Email Amy
 
Jamie Wells
IA Co-Lead
Email Jamie

Community Action Center Whitman County SNAP Ed Program

About Us

CAC has implemented PSE in our food bank, and offered direct education to food bank clients and in local rural schools. Over the past three years we have seen community buy-in for PSE and better outcomes through PSE than direct education. We have an invitation and the experience to help pantries examine their current situation, think through a menu of healthy pantry PSE options, and quickly adopt changes. For SNAP-Ed FFY21-FFY23 CAC proposes: (1) a Mobile Farmstand and (2) Healthy Pantries. The project will serve SNAP-Ed eligible Census tracts in Pullman and co-locate services with food pantries. The Mobile Farmstand will operate like a portable, mini farmers’ market, which will procure food from local farmers and use a pay-what-you-can model. Healthy Pantries focuses on training and technical assistance to increase the capacity of food pantry managers in Whitman County to incorporate PSE. To complement PSE strategies, we will design and carry out a health promotion strategy: a Social Marketing Campaign highlighting the importance of family and community meals for health.

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Community Action Center Whitman County

Meet our Team!

Region
Group/Agency
Name
Title
Email
Phone
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Community Action Center
Deena Bayoumi
509-334-9147

Contact Us

Carrie Chase, carrie_chase@cacwhitman.org

Current Programming

Direct Education

  • N/A

PSE

  • Create a Mobile Farmstand to bring produce to SNAP-Ed eligible Census tracts and rural food pantries.
  • Training and technical assistance to increase the capacity of food pantry managers in Whitman County to incorporate PSE.

Community Partners

  • Whitman County Food Coalition
  • Council on Aging and Human Services
  • Backyard Harvest
  • WSU Center for Civic Engagement
  • WSU Food Systems Team
  • Northwest Harvest
  • Runner Bean Ranch
  • Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at WSU
  • DSHS Colfax (CSO)
  • Catholic Charities Spokane (SNAP Incentives)
  • Food pantries across Whitman County