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Creating A United Methodist “Movement” To Connect Hungry Children to Food

Nurturing Young Bodies Developing Young Minds Fostering Hope Through Christ… One Child at a Time!

+ Connecting To Each Other….

Welcome & Introductions

• The mission of Cornerstone Family Ministries is to make a lasting and

positive impact in the lives of disadvantaged children and their families in our community by nurturing young bodies, developing young minds, and fostering hope through Christ…One Child at a time. Mission

• All disadvantaged children in our community will have access to

nutritious food, quality safe early childhood care education and

• pportunities to connect to the sustaining love of Jesus Christ through a

local church. Vision

• To Offer God’s Love First So That Hope Through Jesus Christ May Follow
• To Be Child Focused and Family Friendly
• To Facilitate Opportunities For All Children To Succeed
• To Empower Children and Their Families Through Education
• To Promote Service To Others and Minister with Compassion Always
• To Accept and Respect People Where They Are
• To Be Committed to Excellence—Always Developing and Growing

Guiding Values

+ Connecting In Mission “With”

The Poor…. How Do You Connect? What Difference Can a Meal Make To A Child?

+ How Cornerstone is Connecting The Dots To A Pathway Out of Poverty with The Help of The Local Church….

Poor Child/Mom

Child Care Centers, VBS, & After School Churches & Volunteers Education Literacy Volunteers Government Partnership Private Donors ($ & In-kind

Your Part Is For A Season but The Pathway Out Of Poverty for A Child is a Life-Time Process…

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+ Cornerstone’s Current Programs

Visit Cornerstone’s Web-Site and Watch the Video Link WWW .CORNERSTONEFAMILYMINISTRIES.ORG

+ Cornerstone’s Current Programs

Click Here For Map of Sponsored Centers and Nearby UMC's

http://batchgeo.com/map/90658feaaeb888c59255f6b2509d909e

+ Cornerstone’s Current Programs

Tea Parties, Baby Showers and Block Parties Events 3rd Saturday Work Days Wonder Walk Women and Youth Outreach Initiatives

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Cornerstone Children’s Faith Connection

Adopt A Center New 2014 VPK to VBS Pilot at Rosa 2014 Literacy Library Outreach New 2014 Care Packages for Kids & Summer Food New 2014 Church Child Care Centers to Join the Child Care Food Program

On a Mission For Kids

(Monthly Volunteer Work Days)

Expanded to Partner Centers Movement to Recruit churches To Be Summer and After School Food Sites New 2014

Cornerstone’s Children’s Faith Connection

A Vision for Nutritious Food for Children In Every Neighborhood

* Unfilled Circles Represent Programs That Will Be Offered To All Of Our 130 Partner Child Care Centers Throughout the South Central District In An Effort To Connect The Local Church To Children In Need.

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United Methodist Church Initiative

1 Church Champion for Each of the 4 Areas of the District 3 Cornerstone Church Partners from more affluent neighborhoods to partner with Chance for Change Church Sites located in needy neighborhoods 6 Cornerstone Chance for Change Church Sites located in needy neighborhoods and likely churches with many in need already in their congregation 25 Cornerstone Early Childhood Center Partners 50 Cornerstone Child Care Home Partners

Are You Smarter Than The Average United Methodist About Childhood Hunger?

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 Food Insecurity

1.

A term used for children who don’t like to leave home without their food

2.

A term used for children who do not have consistent access to nutritious food in their household

3.

A term used for children who do not have access to food at all

 The Number of Children who lived in Food

Insecure Households in the US in 2011

1.

16.7 million

2.

11.2 million

3.

8.7 million

Are You Smarter Than The Average United Methodist…

+ Are You Smarter Than The Average

United Methodist…

 Where does Florida rank in the US in food insecure

children under 18?

1.

5th

2.

12th

3.

23rd

 Good nutrition, particularly in the first three years

• f life, is important in establishing a good foundation

that has implications on what aspects of a child’s future?

1.

physical and mental health

2.

academic achievement

3.

future economic productivity

4.

All of the above

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 What Percent of Children in Florida are Food

Insecure?

1.

17%

2.

28%

3.

48%

 What is the Florida County With the Highest %

• f Food Insecure Children?

1.

Dade County

2.

Hendry County

3.

Duval County

Are You Smarter Than The Average United Methodist…

38%

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1 in 5 children are overweight or obese by age 6 – Yes Even Hungry Children are Obese.

 1. Physical Activity: Provide 1-2 hours of physical activity throughout the day,

including outside play when possible – poor neighborhoods often do not have safe places for children to play outside – Your Church could be that safe place!

 2. Screen Time: No screen time for children under 2 years. For children age 2 and

• lder no more than 1-2 hours of quality screen time per day (as recommended by

the American Academy of Pediatrics) – poor families often use TV as a relatively inexpensive form of entertainment – Your Church programs could provide “free” activity and provide an alternative to unsupervised screen time.

 3. Food: Serve fresh fruits or vegetables at every meal, eat meals family-style

whenever possible, and don't serve fried foods – most poor neighborhoods are “food deserts” where fresh fruits and vegetables are not available – Your Church could start a community garden and/or participate in a feeding program.

 4. Beverages: Provide access to water during meals and throughout the day, and

don't serve sugary drinks. For children age 2 and older, serve low-fat (1%) or non-fat milk, and no more than one 4- to 6-ounce serving of 100% juice per day – milk and 100% fruit juice are more expensive than sugary drinks that are dressed up as fruit juice – Your Church can provide 100% fruit juice and milk when providing snacks during children’s programming at your church.

SPECIAL NOTE: Hungry Children will Eat Anything and Everything – Providing Healthy Food is good for their immediate health but teaching them to CHOOSE healthy food will help them to be healthy for a lifetime.

+ School Breakfast and Lunch Programs

 More than 20 million kids get a free or reduced-price school lunch on an

average school day.

 But only 9.8 million – fewer than half -- of those kids get free or reduced-

price school breakfast. (Source: Food Research and Action Center, School Breakfast Scorecard)

 Innovative ways of serving breakfast – like Breakfast in the Classroom – can

give many more kids a chance to benefit from breakfast at school. They give kids who might otherwise go hungry a healthy meal to start their

• day. Not only does this fill their bellies, it ensures that these children have

the energy and focus needed to make the most of their school day. School

• fficials report that they also see better attendance, less tardiness, and

fewer behavioral problems when all kids eat breakfast.

 In Florida, the Department of Agriculture administers the Free and

Reduced School Lunch Program and School Break Fast Program

How Your Church Can Help: Remind families in your congregation about the importance of Breakfast and encourage them to participate in these programs if they can not afford to provide breakfast and lunch for their children. Advocate for Free Breakfast in your school districts if it is not already happening.

+ Summer Nutrition Program

 Two federal programs—National School Lunch Program and

Summer Food Service Program— provide meals to kids during the summer months, when they are at higher risk of hunger.

 Six out of seven low-income kids who eat a free or reduced-

price school lunch during the academic year do not get a free meal during the summer. (Source: Food Research and Action Center, Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report 2012)

 Only one in seven kids who ate a free or reduced-price school

lunch during the school year also participated in summer meal programs.

 In Florida, this program is administered through the

Department of Agriculture.

How Your Church Can Help Connect Children to Nutritious Food During the Summer: Become a summer food site either as a direct sponsor or as a site under a sponsor like Cornerstone. The Florida Impact representative for your area is a great source for technical support in helping you to find a sponsor or to become one.

+ SNAP (formerly known as Food Stamps)

 SNAP helps keep our children and our economy healthy. In times of

financial hardship, caused by the loss of a job or a change in family size, SNAP helps families have the means to get the food they need. In 2011, a household with children that received SNAP benefits earned on average $943 a month. These families received around $413 in SNAP benefits a month for an average of 9 months to purchase food to keep their children fed and healthy. The average SNAP benefit per meal is less than $1.50. Even the small amount of SNAP benefits that families receive for such a short duration, the program has significant impact on the healthy development of children and on the economy.

 According to Children’s HealthWatch, young children in families who receive SNAP

are less likely to be underweight or at risk for developmental issues compared to children in families that are eligible, but do not receive SNAP benefits

 Ten percent of households with children that are food insecure upon enrolling in

SNAP will move to be food secure after six months of receiving SNAP benefits

 For every $5.00 in SNAP benefits a family receives, $9.00 is spent in the local

community, primarily on groceries from the neighborhoods supermarket

How Your Church Can Help Connect Children to Nutritious Food At Home: Make sure parents

• f children you work with have the information they need to apply for SNAP benefits and are

taking advantage of these resources so that the resources you provide can stretch farther. and help those in the gap who do not qualify but need your help temporarily.

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These Federal Programs Are Available in Florida to Connect Food Insecure Children to Nutritious Food By Providing $ Needed….AND You Can Talk About Jesus!

 CACFP - Home Program (administered in Florida by DOH)  CACFP – Childcare Program (administered in Florida by DOH)  WIC - (administered in Florida by DOH)  School Breakfast and Lunch Program (administered in Florida by

Department of Agriculture)

 Summer Food Program (administered in Florida by Department of

Agriculture)

 After School Program (administered in Florida by Department of

Agriculture)

 SNAP (administered in Florida by Department of Agriculture)

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The United Methodist Church Has Already Taken The Lead….

Now we need to take ACTION!!!

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Isn’t That Great? And The United Methodist Church Has Already Taken The Lead….BUT….

Of 700 UMC’s in The Florida Conference, How Many Do You Think Opened Their Doors As a Summer Food Site Last Summer?

2012 Summer Food Sites at United Methodist Locations – 24-30 TOTAL IN THE STATE (out of 700 Churches) Church Site

County Site Name

UMC

COLUMBIA Bethlehem United Methodist Church

UMC

DADE Kelly's Chapel United Methodist Church

UMC

DADE Branches South Miami/ South Florida Urban Ministries

UMC

DADE Norland United Methodist Church

UMC

DIXIE Old Town Methodist Church

UMC

DUVAL Lake Shore United Methodist Church

UMC

FLAGLER United Methodist Christian School

UMC

HENDRY Carlson Memorial United Methodist Church

UMC

HILLSBOROUGH Hillsborough United Methodist Church

UMC

HILLSBOROUGH YMCA at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church

UMC

HILLSBOROUGH Oak Grove United Methodist Church

UMC

LAKE Community United Methodist

UMC

MANATEE Rogers Memorial Methodist Church

UMC

MARION Anthony United Methodist Church

UMC

PALM BEACH CROS Lake Worth

UMC

PALM BEACH Pahokee United Methodist

UMC

PINELLAS PASS - Dunedin Methodist Church

UMC

PINELLAS Lealman United Methodist Church

UMC

POLK First United Methodist Church

UMC

SARASOTA Vamo United Methodist Church

UMC

VOLUSIA Community United Methodist Church-DeBary

UMC

VOLUSIA Orange City United Methodist Church

UMC

VOLUSIA First United Methodist Church

UMC

VOLUSIA DeLeon Springs United Methodist

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Wherever You Are And No Matter How Limited Your Resources….

There Is A Way Your Church Can Help Connect Children In Need With Nutritious Food!

+ If You Have Any Of the Following Activities

You Need To Be A Part of this Movement…

 VBS  Youth Group  Wednesday Night Programming  A Child Care Center  An After School Program  A Mission Committee With a Heart for Reaching Out To

Children In Need

 A Nearby School With 50% or More Free or Reduced Lunch

+ Does Your Church Have A Child Care

Center?….

 If you do, regardless of the zip code area you are

in, you can be reimbursed for serving nutritious meals

 If you are lucky enough to be making money off

• f your childcare center, that is OK…you can

participate and encourage healthy eating and then donate the money to missions programing

 If your childcare is struggling…DO NOT

DELAY…DO THIS…it is so important that safe faith based childcare centers continue to be in communities and nutritious food made available

+ You Might Know You Have Poor

Children Living Near Your Church Or You Might Be Surprised….

 Know what School District Serves Your Church’s Zip

Code

 Know what Schools Serve Your Church’s Zip Code  If even ONE of those schools has 50% or more children

who qualify, your church is considered a target area for a food program and you can qualify for funding to serve nutritious meals after-school and during the summer.

 If you don’t want to commit to a NEW program, you can

serve the meals as part of an existing faith based program like VBS, Youth Group, or Sunday programing

+ Don’t Have a Child Care Center and

are not near a School with 50% or more

• f the Children qualifying?….

Consider becoming a “Mobile Summer

Food Site” and take your food service to a neighborhood that does qualify

Adopt a Child Care Center or School

and create Weekend Care Packages for Kids Program

Find a UMC that is in a needy

neighborhood and partner with them by providing leadership and volunteers to start a site

+ A Word About Sponsors….

Sponsors make it easy to get started and stay

with these government programs.

Sponsors are a buffer between you and the

government, allowing you to focus on ministry

The sponsor is your partner in dealing directly

with the government and making sure your site is successful

Sponsors take the liability and send you a

check!

+ Sponsors Make It Easy – CCFP Sponsors

FAMILY CENTRAL, INC. 840 S W 81st AVENUE NORTH LAUDERDALE 954-724- 4060 BROWARD, DADE, INDIAN RIVER, MARTIN, PALM BEACH,

• ST. LUCIE,

HIGHLAND FOOD RESOURCES, INC. 1011 IVES DAIRY RD, SUITE # 105 MIAMI 305-655- 0022 BROWARD, CHARLOTTE, DADE, DESOTO, PALM BEACH, CORNERSTONE FAMILY MINISTRIES 4100 W. KENNEDY BLVD., STE. 301 TAMPA 813-281- 1269 HILLSBOROUGH, MANATEE, PASCO, PINELLAS, POLK CHILD CARE OF SOUTHWEST FL., INC. 6831 PALISADES PARK CT., STE. 6

• FT. MYERS

239-936- 0899 CHARLOTTE, COLLIER, DESOTO, HENDRY, HIGHLANDS, INDIAN RIVER, LEE, OKEECHOBEE, POLK, SARASOTA, ST. LUCIE, CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, INC 1601 NE 25TH AVE., SUITE 900 OCALA 352-629- 0055 ALACHUA, BAKER, BREVARD, CITRUS, COLUMBIA, DIXIE, DUVAL, FLAGLER, HAMILTON, HERNANDO, LAKE, LEVY, MARION, NASSAU, PUTNAM,

• ST. JOHNS, SUMTER,

SUWANNEE, VOLUSIA,

• COM. COORD. CARE FOR
• CHILD. (4C)

3500 W. COLONIAL DR. ORLANDO 407-532- 4324 ORANGE, OSCEOLA, SEMINOLE COORDINATED CHILD CARE OF PINELLAS, INC. 6500 102ND AVE N PINELLAS PARK 727-547- 5771 PINELLAS,

South Florida Program Coordinator Julie Kreafle JKreafle@FLImpact.org Central Florida Program Coordinator Kim Mowatt KMowatt@FLImpact.org Tampa Bay Program Coordinator Christina Sudduth CSudduth@FLImpact.org

1331 East Lafayette Street - Suite A - Tallahassee, Florida 32301 850-309-1488

Summer Food, After School Food Sponsor Information

FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND THE SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM: Strategies for Getting Involved Download Faithbased Tool-kit at www.FloridaImpact.org

+ State Agency Contacts for Government Funded Programs

 Florida National School Lunch Program and Summer Food

(NSLP, SFSP) Food, Nutrition and Wellness Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services 600 South Calhoun Street, Suite 120 Tallahassee, FL 32399 Phone: 800-504-6609 Fax: 850-617-7403

 Florida ChildCare Center Food Program and Home ChildCare

Food Program ( CACFP (Child) ) Bureau of Child Care Food Programs Department of Health 4052 Bald Cypress Way Bin #A-17 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1727 Phone: 850-245-4323 Fax: 850-414-1622

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Administrative Offices Located at 1802 N. Albany Avenue, Tampa, FL 33607 Mailing Address: Cornerstone Family Ministries, Inc.

• P. O. Box 4576 - Tampa, FL 33677-4576

Cathy Capo Stone Executive Director Phone: 813-253-3853 x101 Email: cstone@cornerstonefm.org Angie Dyson Sr Director of Cornerstone & Director of Children’s Nutrition Connection Phone: 813-281-1269 x228 Email: adyson@cornerstonefm.org

www.cornerstonefamilyministries.org

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Creating A United Methodist “Movement” To Connect Hungry Children to Food

Nurturing Young Bodies Developing Young Minds Fostering Hope Through Christ… One Child at a Time!