{"id":1891,"date":"2017-11-07T11:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T18:41:12","slug":"food-pantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/food-pantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Palomar College food pantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"open-para\">The Student Affairs team at Palomar tackles food insecurity and plans 2018 expansion of Anita and Stan Maag Food &amp; Nutrition Center.<\/p>\n<p>SAN MARCOS \u2014 By noon on Thursday, Nov. 2, at least a hundred students had filed through a room filled with free food, picking up produce, pastries and bags of bagels on their way to class.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest effort by the Palomar College Office of Student Affairs to address food insecurity, college staff and volunteers have coordinated Thursday food giveaways while planning for a significant expansion of the food pantry that Palomar has maintained for 34 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want students to be as well-prepared as they can be when they walk into the classroom,\u201d said Sherry Titus, Director of Student Affairs. \u201cIf they\u2019re not worried about where they\u2019re getting their next meal, we know they\u2019ll be more successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The college currently sources its pantry supplies from the North County Food Bank on Rancheros Drive in San Marcos. The campus pantry has fed thousands of people over the decades, but lacks a refrigerator or a receiving dock.<\/p>\n<p>When the Anita and Stan Maag Food &amp; Nutrition Center moves to its new location in fall 2018, workers finally will have a refrigerator for keeping produce and dairy on hand, enough staging room to accept pallets of food, and an industrial sink.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by a $400,000 donation from Bob Wilson, the new space will replace the old faculty and staff lounge when remodeling begins early next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be able to bring in so much more product,\u201d and students will have more nutritious food to choose from, Titus said.<\/p>\n<h2>The students are hungry<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/topics\/food-nutrition-assistance\/food-security-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food security<\/a> as \u201caccess \u2026 at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life.\u201d Low food security, the USDA maintains, is marked by \u201creduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet,\u201d and very low food security means \u201cdisrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a March 2017 study by the HOPE Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, more than half of the community college students in the U.S. fall into the \u201clow\u201d or \u201cvery low\u201d categories.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, researchers surveyed 33,000 students across 70 community colleges in 24 states, and 60 percent of respondents said they couldn\u2019t afford to eat balanced meals, while a third said they had cut back or skipped meals for three or more days in a row.<\/p>\n<p>At Palomar, the efforts to address student hunger range from keeping granola bars on hand in the Student Affairs Office to providing Campus Police with emergency food supplies to hand out to homeless students.<\/p>\n<p>On most Thursdays, starting at 11:30 a.m., more than 150 students stop by the SEAL (Success, Equity, Advocacy &amp; Leadership) Center behind the cafeteria and leave with a bag of food. It\u2019s more casual than scheduling an appointment to access the food pantry, and everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1887\" style=\"width: 694px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1887\" class=\"wp-image-1887 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Food-Bank-4642-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Student smiling and grabbing a bag of food from the food pantry\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Food-Bank-4642-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Food-Bank-4642-1080x1618.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Food-Bank-4642-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Food-Bank-4642-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Food-Bank-4642-1024x1534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Food-Bank-4642.jpg 1335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Melinda Finn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think half the students who go to a community college could use some free food,\u201d said Nursing student Chad Weigle. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s expensive. I have a part time job with bills to pay, and I\u2019m in school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between boxes filled with apples and pears, volunteer Miriam Garcia said she has started to recognize some of the regulars on free food Thursdays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel grateful to help,\u201d said Garcia. \u201cBut also, I feel like, wow, this school (gives students) a lot of help. They hear \u2018free food\u2019 and they come in. Some of them really need it, you can tell. They\u2019ll say, \u2018Can I have two?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Monthly support<\/h2>\n<p>In a converted office across the hall from the SEAL Center, single mother Amanda Hudgins was taking her first look at the shelves that the Student Affairs team keeps stocked with canned and dry goods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis really helps, more than you know,\u201d said Hudgins, who read a bulletin on the college website about free food and left campus with 22 pounds of tuna, Instant Ramen, fruit cups and pasta.<\/p>\n<p>Hudgins said she is taking prerequisites to enter the Nursing program at Palomar: \u201cI don\u2019t have time for grocery shopping, going to school and working full time. And it\u2019ll help with my budget, because I live check to check.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to make spaghetti and chili, and I\u2019ve got some soup that my little one can make for himself when he gets home from school,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes earlier, Juan Gonzalez had walked Hudgins through the application process. Students who need to access the food pantry on a monthly basis are asked for some basic information, and may then schedule monthly visits.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez, now 33, graduated from Palomar in 2006 and now serves as Student Activities Coordinator. Working with students week in and week out, he has encouraged some who were reluctant to take what they needed, and listened as a homeless student confessed that he was afraid he would be mugged if he left with a grocery sack full of food.<\/p>\n<p>The next time, Gonzalez recalled, he came with his own backpack and filled it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I had known about this when I was a student,\u201d said Gonzalez. \u201cSometimes I didn\u2019t have money, and buying something to eat, it\u2019s expensive. That\u2019s why I feel so passionate about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added Titus: \u201cWe\u2019ve seen kids just break down crying because they\u2019re so grateful that they can actually have a meal. That gets me all teary-eyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1889\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1889\" class=\"wp-image-1889 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/IMG_2755-e1509724309653-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Boxes filled with apples \" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/IMG_2755-e1509724309653-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/IMG_2755-e1509724309653-1080x1440.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/IMG_2755-e1509724309653-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/IMG_2755-e1509724309653-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/IMG_2755-e1509724309653.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the Student Affairs Office<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Titus said her team has been working to spread awareness of the pantry on campus, and at the same time to destigmatize it as a student resource.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just like going to tutoring\u2014why would we discourage or stigmatize tutoring? Why would we stigmatize any other resource?\u201d asked Titus. \u201cSo let\u2019s make sure they\u2019re comfortable, that they feel OK to come back. There\u2019s no judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez said that donations of food and personal hygiene items are accepted through the Office of Student Affairs. But financial donations can be even more impactful, since the college can buy food much more cheaply through the food bank than shoppers can in stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe go to the North County Food Bank, and today, we bought over 400 pounds of food for only $50,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/studentlifeandleadership\/student-assistance\/palomar-college-food-bank\/\">Learn more about the Palomar College Food &amp; Nutrition Center.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Student Affairs team at Palomar tackles food insecurity and plans 2018 expansion of Anita and Stan Maag Food &amp; Nutrition Center. 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