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Emergency Food Distribution
(EFD) Vendor Pool
Presented to:
BOS Social Services Committee
February 22, 2021
Presented by:
Andrea Ford, Assistant Agency Director, Social Services Agency, WBA
Alisa Loveman, Supervising Program Specialist, WBA
Tamara Dehnert, Management Analyst, WBA
EFD Vendor Pool
Presentation
• Overview
• Distribution and Outreach
• Achievements
• Vendor Highlights
• Partnership with Alameda
County Public Health
Department (ACPHD)
• Survey Results
• Economic Impacts
• Challenges
• Community and Partner
Feedback
EFD Vendor Pool Overview Due to the growing food needs associated with COVID-19, ACSSA partnered with organizations to expand emergency food distribution and meal delivery services. Target populations: • Individuals and families facing food insecurity • Home-bound seniors • Youth • Medically vulnerable individuals • Immigrant populations
EFD Funding • September 2020 - December 30, 2020: $27.6M - Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES Act) • January 2021 - February 2021 extension: $18.8M
EFD Vendor Pool 22 community partners contracted to provide nutritious food and meal delivery services to vulnerable Alameda County residents.
EFD Safe Food Distribution
Methods
• No contact grocery
delivery.
• Delivered prepared meals
to homes and homeless
encampments.
• Provided prepared/grab-
and-go/brown bag meals
for pick up.
• Mobile and pop-up food
distribution sites across the
county.
• Drive through pick-up
locations.
• Socially distanced lines.
EFD Vendor Pool Outreach Methods
EFD Vendor Pool Achievements Sept – Dec 2020 • 13.7 million prepared meals + meal equivalents • 12.9 million meal equivalents • 8.3 million meal equivalents from ACCFB to member agencies • 811,000 prepared meals delivered
EFD Vendor Highlight
Open Heart Kitchen, Tri-Valley Haven, and Alameda
County Community Food Bank
• Target population: Vulnerable
Alameda County low to moderate
income households.
• Type of services: Pick-up/drive
through distribution site at the
Alameda County Fairgrounds in
Pleasanton providing groceries.
• 332,450 meal equivalents – Nov.
2020 through Dec. 2020
“This has been a great pleasure and
helpful for me, because I had to put my
wife, unfortunately, in a hospital in
January, so I’m learning how to cook and
take care of myself.”
-EFD Recipient
EFD Vendor Highlight – cont’d
Bay Area Community Health
• Target population: Low-income,
individuals in Alameda County who
have chronic health conditions and/or
would otherwise be medically
underserved.
• Type of services: Provided nutritious
and/or medically tailored meals from
Project Open Hand and bags of
groceries through the Food Farmacy.
• 7,957 meals and meal equivalents
through Dec. 2020.EFD Vendor Highlight – cont’d
Fare Resources
• Target population: Essential
workers, unhoused residents, low-
income individuals and families,
families of students in Oakland public
schools, pregnant women, COVID-19
positive patients and under-resourced
LGBTQ residents in Oakland,
Emeryville, Berkeley and broader
Alameda County.
• Type of services: Distributed
prepared meals and groceries.
• 65,100 prepared meals delivered
through Dec. 2020.EFD Vendor Highlight – cont’d
Vietnamese American Community Center of the
East Bay (VACCEB)
• Target population: Low-income and
food-insecure seniors and families in
the city of Oakland, who are home-
bound and/or medically vulnerable,
as well as hard-to-reach immigrant
and refugee seniors and families.
Type of services: Provided grocery
bag delivery at their place of
residence.
• 87,500 meal equivalents through
Dec. 2020.
“EFD has had a tremendously significant impact on the communities we serve. With
EFD, we were able to expand our services to 1,200 additional clients, work with small
businesses and ethnic markets to procure culturally relevant food items and be a reliable
food resource for vulnerable communities impacted by COVID-19.”
-VACCEBEFD Vendor Highlight – cont’d
OCCUR
• Target population: Home-bound
seniors, quarantined individuals;
homeless; low-income, food insecure
individuals and families living in West
Oakland.
• Type of services: Groceries and hot
meals distributed at pick-up sites and
delivered to homeless encampments
and seniors’ residences.
• 38,848 meals and meal equivalents
through December 2020.EFD Vendor Highlight – cont’d
Alameda County Deputy Sherriff’s Activities
League (DSAL)
• Target population: Low-income,
food insecure residents of the Eden
Area and Oakland, including
homebound seniors and medically
vulnerable patients; Seniors, adults
and families residing in low-income
housing complexes; and clients of
Community Health Center Network
clinics.
• Type of services: Distribution of
fresh, locally sourced produce;
delivery of recovered food to low-
income housing complexes; and
delivery of prepared meals from local
food vendors.
• 106,000 prepared meals through
Dec. 2020.COVID-19 Contact Tracing Food Deliveries
Collaboration Overview
• Partnered with Alameda County Public Health Department for COVID-19
Contact Tracing food deliveries to individuals in quarantine.
• No contact delivery of shelf stable & fresh food to last at least two weeks.
• 5 participating EFD vendors (ACCFB, DSAL, Trybe, LIFE ElderCare,
Revolution Foods).COVID-19 Contact Tracing Food Delivery Outcomes
• Delivered food to over 2,036
quarantining households
through Feb. 4, 2021.
• Mobilized to deliver meals to
support quarantining when there
were COVID outbreaks in
homeless encampments.
• Overall feedback from recipients
has been positive:
"I am happy because I received
enough food. This is great service
because we were almost at the
end of the quarantine and did not
have enough food. I hope that
can continue with this service."• Vendors collected client data with surveys online and/or
paper surveys.
• Challenges in collecting surveys due to need to reduce
EFD Vendor or eliminate contact and gatherings of individuals.
Pool Data • Voluntary and self-reported data.
Collection
• 258,730 survey respondents (September – December
2020).EFD Survey Respondents by City
Declined to State/Unknown 3,206
Unhoused 961
Pleasanton/Dublin/Livermore/Sunol 5,026
San Leandro/San Lorenzo 24,634
Berkeley/Albany/Kensington 3,695
Oakland/Piedmont/Emeryville 204,070
Hayward/Castro Valley/Mount Eden 13,040
Fremont/Union City/Newark 2,671
Alameda 1,427
0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000EFD Survey Respondents by Age Range
Age 0-17
8% Age 18-26
4%
Age 27-59
26%
Decline to state
51%
Age 60+
11%EFD Survey Respondents’ Household Circumstances
EFD Survey Respondents’ Means-Tested Benefit Enrollment
EFD Economic Impacts
$9.4 millionEFD Volunteers
Total Volunteer Hours
86,800
hoursEFD Vendor
Challenges
• Underestimating the number of
people in need.
• Some overestimated prepared
meal delivery needs as compared
to grocery deliveries.
• Some serving seniors found a
greater need for prepared meal
delivery.
• Condensed timeline and quick
turn around to get resources out
to the community.
• Administrative challenges and
cash flow issues at a time when
their distribution rates had
escalated exponentially.Community
Feedback
Thank you so much, Salvation Army, for
providing lunch to the men and women in our
cabin community!”
-Operation Dignity staff member
"Not only did you bring us lunch, but to see
your smiling face each day has brought love
into my life."
-Food recipient
"You make me feel not forgotten."
-Joe, 880 freeway encampment
resident.Vendor
Feedback
The SSA Emergency Food
Distribution funding has had a
critical and significant impact on
reducing food insecurity for
thousands of vulnerable county
residents while simultaneously
maintaining the economic
viability of over 30 small food
businesses who would otherwise
have had to completely shutter
their operations. Not only has
this funding had these important
economic impacts, but it has
also helped to catalyze the
development of a new local food
economy for Alameda County.
- DSALQuestions?
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