Changes at "Community Food, Wellness & Emergency Support Depot"
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- +["<xml><dl class=\"decidim_awesome-custom_fields\" data-generator=\"decidim_awesome\" data-version=\"0.12.0\">\n<dt name=\"textarea-1756922998878-0\">Idea Submission for The People's Money:</dt>\n<dd id=\"textarea-1756922998878-0\" name=\"textarea\"><div>The Community Food, Wellness & Emergency Support Depot is a collaborative initiative led by Agape Food Rescue, in partnership with Family Builds Global and St. Timothy Church. This 360-degree neighborhood support system is designed to reduce food insecurity, expand wellness resources, protect seniors, stabilize families, engage youth, and strengthen emergency readiness for Brooklyn residents. The Depot’s services operate as a multi-program, mobile and onsite support hub, including:\n\nFood Security & Nutrition\n • Community Choice Pantry Pop-Up allowing families to choose what they need with dignity\n • Healthy Hot Meals Program providing chef-prepared meals\n • Mobile Farmers Market delivering weekly fresh produce\n • Nutrition, Meal Prep & Budget Cooking Workshops\n\n\nSenior Protection & Wellness\n • Senior Stay Safe at Home Program: safety checks, fall-prevention kits, and wellness calls\n • Adopt-A-Senior: monthly visits, companionship, and birthday wellness bags\n • Hydration & Heat Safety Project\n • Winter Survival Initiative distributing coats, heaters, blankets, and winter supplies\n\n\nFamily Support & Emergency Stability\n • Parent Resource Hub offering financial literacy, housing rights, and parenting classes\n • Baby & New Parent Support Initiative: diapers, formula, wipes, safe sleep supports\n • Emergency Micro-Grant Fund for families facing urgent needs\n • Mobile Hygiene Depot distributing soap, pads, deodorant, baby items, and essentials\n\n\nYouth Leadership & Workforce Readiness\n • Workforce Development Track: food service, OSHA basics, warehouse logistics\n • Youth-Led Community Clean-Up Days improving local neighborhood health and safety\n\n\nCommunity Health, Safety & Digital Access\n • Community Health Navigator Program for SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid assistance\n • Digital Inclusion Project: tablets, hotspots, and tech-support days\n • Mental Health First Aid Training for volunteers and residents\n • Community Preparedness Academy: fire safety, flood readiness, outage survival\n • Community Data Dashboard tracking local needs and outcomes\n • Blessing Bags for Police & First Responders strengthening civic trust\n\n\nThis Depot creates a strong, integrated safety net for thousands of households in need.</div></dd>\n<dt name=\"textarea-1758648114412-0\">What is the problem your idea aims to address?</dt>\n<dd id=\"textarea-1758648114412-0\" name=\"textarea\"><div>The PDF identifies numerous challenges affecting East New York & Brownsville:\n • Severe food insecurity and lack of fresh produce\n • High senior isolation, fall risks, and unsafe home conditions\n • Limited youth employment opportunities\n • Widespread hygiene poverty\n • Emergency crises (heat waves, winter storms, blackouts, flooding)\n • Barriers to accessing SNAP/WIC/Medicaid\n • Families without diapers, formula, or essential baby supplies\n • Lack of digital connectivity\n • Health disparities tied to nutrition and chronic illness\n\n\nThe Depot solves these problems by delivering holistic, coordinated, neighborhood-based support that meets immediate needs while strengthening long-term stability.\nThis proposal benefits:\n • Low-income families\n • Seniors living alone or facing mobility limits\n • New and expecting parents\n • Youth ages 10–24 needing leadership and workforce readiness\n • Unhoused individuals and families in crisis\n • Residents needing food, hygiene, baby supplies, or fresh produce\n • Community members navigating benefits like SNAP/WIC\n\n\nNeighborhoods benefit from improved safety, public health, cleanliness, and stronger trust between residents and support networks.</div></dd>\n<dt name=\"checkbox-group-1756922140917-0\">Which groups does your idea focus on? Select all that apply</dt>\n<dd id=\"checkbox-group-1756922140917-0\" name=\"checkbox-group\">\n<div alt=\"youth\">Youth (under 24)</div>\n<div alt=\"older-adults\">Older Adults (65 +)</div>\n<div alt=\"public-housing\">Public Housing Residents</div>\n<div alt=\"justice-impacted\">Justice Impacted People</div>\n<div alt=\"disabilities\">People with Disabilities</div>\n<div alt=\"veterans\">Veterans</div>\n<div alt=\"parents\">Parents</div>\n<div alt=\"unhoused\">Unhoused People</div>\n</dd>\n</dl></xml>"]
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