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WORKSHOP SERIES

Food shelf staff in Dakota County are encouraged to join The Open Door in exploring the creation of healthier food environments in food shelves. The workshops are designed as a follow-up to the comprehensive Healthy Food in Hunger Relief survey implemented at food shelves in Dakota County in May and June of 2015, administered by Wilder Research on behalf of The Open Door, with funding from the Dakota County Public Healthy Department. Interpret your assessment results, target specific policies, practices or changes that you can adopt at your food shelf, strategize on implementing these healthy changes, and get tips on evaluating and communitciating your success. Please join us!
Workshops are FREE- please plan to attend all 4 workshops. RSVP by September 20th to margaretp@theopendoorpantry.org

Friday, Oct 2, 1-4 pm
The Open Door Eagan Pantry
3904 Cedar Grove Parkway, Eagan


Keynote: Wilder Research
Assessment: Interpret client and stakeholder survey results and target key changes based on responses 

  • report-out of individual and countywide aggregate reports from Dakota County food shelf survey
  • understanding the data and discussion of practical approaches based on the data. How does the data speak to attitudes, current approaches, barriers, and opportunities in current food shelf environment?

Friday, Oct 9, 1-4 pm
360 Communities
Burnsville Family Resource Center
501 East Highway 13, Suite 102, Burnsville

Keynote: Grassroots Solutions

Adoption: Prepare and organize your community around healthy food changes

  • Organizing your community/stakeholders/clients around environmental/practice change and
  • Formalizing change through position statements, principals and/or policy

Friday, Oct 16, 1-4 pm
Location: TBD

Keynote: The Open Door and Valley Outreach

Implementation: Operationalizing change in the food shelf environment

  • Understanding the hiccups and the hurdles, communications and messaging, operations, logistics, and systems change within the organization and broader systems change (change in sourcing, waste disposal, etc)

Friday, Oct 23, 1-4 pm
Fruit of the Vine Food Shelf
13798 Parkwood Dr, Burnsville, MN 55337

Keynote: Wilder Research

Evaluation: How have your healthy food approaches been received? Garner further support by communicating your success

  • Why is evaluating attitudes about the policy important?
  • How can you use it to further change in your food shelf and across the broader hunger relief community?