“SFHIP Faith - based Liaisons” Closing the Hunger Gap Logo from program/Coalition Food Security Task Force Meeting April 4, 2018 1
Background on the Coalition: In 2016 seventeen Pastor’s met with G.L. Hodge and I to learn that there was a huge gap connecting the faith community with health and wellness services city-wide. They agreed to identify one representative from each congregation to learn and inform their congregations how THE to close the gap. The Faith-Based Liaisons Team is a health and wellness STORY collaborative of presently 22 local churches in San Francisco. They are primarily African American congregations committed to advocating for the needs of the underserved African-American community in the Bayview, District 10 community and city-wide.
SFHIP The Pastor’s shared that Priorities: Healthy that many of their eating + members lacked physical enough food to sustain activity themselves month to month…
…In addition they need Preventable info to address: hospitalizations Heart disease among African Hypertension American and All cancers residents from the Diabetes Tenderloin, SOMA Mental Health, HIV and Bayview due to ambulatory care issues and more sensitive conditions
The Median Income in S.F. is $81,000 whereas the median income for African Americans is $29,000. What we We have very little food resources for our learned through communities building this Families in our own congregations are Collaborative hungry and facing multiple challenges “in that we didn’t silence” to live each day. know before Faith based Liaisons have trusted about our relationships with congregants and can community’s assist them with other health issues health? Each faith community is facing similar health issues within their congregations in isolation. FAITH + RELATIONSHIPS = HOPE
Continue to fill the gaps around hunger Pastors aligning to impact health & wellness in a collective method Next Liaisons seeking training on how to interface better between community Steps and the public sector Secure funding that will continue to support this effort
Providence Baptist Church Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church Double Rock Baptist Church True Hope Church of God in Christ Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church New Providence Baptist Church Olivet Baptist Church United House of Prayer Calvary Hill Community Church SFHIP Faith Grace Tabernacle Community Church St. John Missionary Baptist Church Without Walls Christian Fellowship Based St. Marks Institutional Missionary St Paul’s Tabernacle Baptist Church Baptist Church Liaison * Glide Memorial Methodist All Hallows & Our Lady of Lourdes Community *Jones United Methodist *3 rd Baptist Church St. Paul of the Shipwreck *Neighborhood Baptist Tabernacle of Faith New Life Fellowship Church *Joined the effort in January, 2018:
In the Beginning…. November, 2016
Liaisons, working at monthly meetings
Celebration, December 2, 2017
Pastor’s Re - Convening, February 22, 2018
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