TBNEH Work Teams are member/staff organized and lead. Work Teams are developed to assist our members in putting ideas into action to help eliminate hunger in our communities. We invite you to join a Work Team that may align with your goals, passions, or interests. Our 2020 Work Teams are listed below. In next weeks newsletter, look out for updated descriptions, along with invitations to join. 

2020 Work Teams:

• Creating a Regenerative Community Food System (CRCFS)
• Meals On Wheels St. Petersburg (MOWSP)
• Pasco
• Pinellas Disaster Hunger Task Force
• Policy
• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Where: Rion Ballroom, Reitz Union, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

If you are not able to attend the event in person, you can watch the livestream beginning at 9am est by clicking below.

The UF/IFAS Institute for Sustainable Food Systems hosts a day long forum to:

• Explore the frontier of global food innovation
• Highlight the potential for food innovations to improve human well-being
• Provide guidance to the scientific community on the most important areas to make better functioning food systems and to improve global nutrition security.

The Future of Food Forum will be an intensive and exciting one-day event at the University of Florida. It will bring together leading experts, entrepreneurs, researchers, and innovators to take a look at the future of food with an eye toward 2050.

The keynote speaker, Dr. Louise Fresco, President of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, will focus on responsible agriculture and food consumption as crucial to world stability.

At the forum you will hear some of the world’s changemakers give their perspective on the future of food systems and what we should be doing now to embrace the innovations and challenges of the future of food. There will be four high impact sessions:

• The Innovators – Hear from inventors and entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of food.
• Food from the Land – Panelists will discuss new technologies: what will be useful, who will use them, where will they be most useful, and what the impacts will be.
• Food from the Sea – Analysts will present the state of current seafood systems; predictions for future trends in aquaculture and fisheries.
• Food and Human Well-Being – One Health perspectives on health and food including antimicrobial resistance, foodborne disease, and nutrition.

This will be an insightful event for anyone who cares about the future of food – from producers to consumers; from researchers to innovators; and from business leaders to policymakers.

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PINELLAS: Team Leads Needed For 2020 Point In Time Survey

The Pinellas Homeless Leadership Board is currently recruiting volunteers to assist with the Point-In-Time Count of the Homeless on Thursday, January 23, 2020. There is still a pressing need for “Team Leaders” to assist with the Point-in-Time Count. Team Lead Link: http://www.pinellashomeless.org/Point-in-Time-Count-Team-Lead-Application

Each year, the number of individuals in Emergency, Transitional, and Safe Haven Shelters in Pinellas County, as well as a count of Unsheltered homeless individuals is provided to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These data, along with supplemental data collected through the Unsheltered street survey, Pinellas County Schools, and the Pinellas County Jail are reported to provide a broader understanding of the Pinellas County homeless population. A cadre of volunteers are necessary in order to complete the count and to reach all of the areas across Pinellas County. The volunteers will go to soup kitchens, bus stops, day labor sites, parks, libraries, shopping centers and other locations where homeless people are known to reside. The count is coordinated by the Pinellas County Homeless Leadership Board, and the data we collect is crucial in planning for programs and services that will help prevent homelessness, as well as assist individuals and families who are homeless obtain housing and self-sufficiency.

This survey has been conducted for many years and they have never received a reported incidence of a volunteers’ safety being compromised. Volunteers are only being sent to public places that the homeless populations are known to congregate, and the volunteers will be assisted by a “team leader” which is someone like you or others who have participated with the PIT previously.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Susan Finlaw-Dusseault with the Pinellas Homeless Leadership Board, at (727) 582-7921 or sfdusseault@pinellashlb.org.

Florida Food Forum - January's Topic:

Food Politics: The Role of Policy in the Food System

Join us from 12-1pm on Friday, January 31st, for the Florida Food Forum on "Food Politics: The Role of Policy in the Food System" with guest presenter Anthony Olivieri, Chair of the FLFPC Development Committee and founder of FHEED LLC. Following the presentation will be a discussion and Q&A session. The event is a free online forum that is open to the public. 

Join us

Use the Microsoft teams the link below or dial-in by phone.

Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

+1 941-306-1146 United States, Sarasota (Toll); Conference ID: 642 110 014#

Note: For dial-in attendees, please press * (star) then 6 to mute and unmute while on the call.

Bio: Anthony Olivieri, Chair of the Development Committee at the Florida Food Policy Council, is the founder of FHEED LLC (Food for Health, the Environment, Economy & Democracy), has a Masters in Urban & Regional Planning from FAU (2011) with a focus on community food systems, and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His specialties are geographic assessments of food and health disparities, program design for healthy food access initiatives, and public speaking about health equity. In addition to his consultancy, Anthony was a full-time instructor with the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University, where he developed and taught the region’s first urban planning course on community food systems (2014-2016). A Fort Lauderdale resident since 1998, Anthony is originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts and has a B.A. in psycholinguistics from the University of Southern California (1994).

Forum Host: Dell deChant is the Associate Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of South Florida and a member of the Board of Directors at the Florida Food Policy Council.

Disclaimer: The views of the presenters do not represent the views of the Florida Food Policy Council. We are a forum for the offering and sharing of information and encourage diversity and communication within the food system.

Celebrating a Healthy and Happy Heart

Thursday, February 13, 2020 from 11:00am – 2:00pm

Event Location: Dade Oaks Elderly, 37347 Autumn Drive, Dade City 33523
Non-profit organizations, businesses, entertainment, health screenings, services and activities for our vendors and guests.

Interested in exhibiting? Contact Bev Doucet at BDoucet@pascocountyhousing.org for additional information.