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Poverty on the Palouse
In December of 2017, a group of local citizens representing faith communities expressed concern with increased food insecurity needs in the community. This issue was also identified several years earlier, during the original Poverty on the Palouse Forum series held last in 2014. In 2014, homelessness was the issue brought to the City by Steve Bonnar, Sojourners Alliance Executive Director. Results from that forum included the development of Family Promise of the Palouse.
Mayor Lambert reinvigorated the Poverty on the Palouse Forum approach to address this current pressing issue of food insecurity. The City is happy to facilitate this discussion and invites all interested community members to attend. This initial issue-framing meeting will consist of information sharing and brainstorming to allow the group to share and learn about opportunities and challenges that can drive goals and tasks.
Poverty on the Palouse is a citizen-based initiative group focusing on concerns raised by the community. The current goal of the Poverty on the Palouse Forum is to address food security issues by supporting and empowering community members to increase education around access and awareness to healthy foods. Our focus at this stage is on relationship building with community partners offering assistance and to identify specific individual needs related to food security. We will work in cooperation with existing agencies to support or create sustainable systems to address the above goal.
Information gathered from previous work as well as more current statistics on food insecurity in our community is included in the related materials to the right.
Please join the conversation. If you know of anyone who may be interested in participating, please don’t hesitate to invite them to join as well. Thank you in advance for your support of the community.
Contact Information
For more information on the Poverty on the Palouse Forum series, please contact Jen Pfiffner, Assistant to the City Supervisor by email or by phone at 208-883-7123.
To stay up to date on Poverty on the Palouse, please join the Poverty on the Palouse group through our Notify Me service.
Resources
Looking for resources for various services on the Palouse? Please click our Community Resources link below.
This information is kept up to date as best as possible. If there is a Community Resource we missed, or information that should be updated, please complete the online submission form at the link below.
Agendas & Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - March 09, 2020 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Public Meeting - March 05, 2020 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - February 24, 2020 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - February 10, 2020 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - January 27, 2020 Agenda and Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - December 09, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - October 28, 2019 Agenda
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - October 14, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse General Meeting - September 19, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - September 9, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - August 26, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - July 22, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - June 24, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse General Meeting - June 20, 2019 Agenda
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - June 10, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - May 13, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - April 22, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - April 8, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse General Meeting - March 21, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - March 18, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - March 8, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - February 22, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee Meeting - February 8, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse General Meeting - January 17, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee - January 11, 2019 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee - December 14, 2018 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee - November 30, 2018 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee - November 13, 2018 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Steering Committee - October 22, 2018 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse General Meeting - October 18, 2018 Agenda/Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Forum April 5, 2018 Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Forum March 1, 2018 Notes
- Poverty on the Palouse Forum February 1 2018 Notes.pdf
- Poverty on the Palouse Forum February 1 2018 Agenda.pdf
- Poverty on the Palouse Forum February 1 2018 Notes.pdf
- Poverty on the Palouse Forum February 1 2018 Agenda (PDF)
Related Materials
Forum Research and Information
- Gaps and Needs Survey Results (PDF)
- Idaho Hunger Summit Report (PDF)
- Need Assistance - Referral Information (PDF)
- Position Statement (PDF)
- UNICEF - Measuring Child Poverty (PDF)
- United Way Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed (ALICE) Report Latah County
- United Way Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed (ALICE) Report Pacific Northwest
- Action Team Categories