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Check out our Smith County Food Security Council October 2022 Newsletter on our Facebook page.

The Smith County Food Security Council and other local organizations participated in the Episcopal Health Foundation Facilitation Training. Participants learned how to utilize liberating structures to facilitate meetings that provide inclusiveness and equity. We also engaged in learning and skill-building activities to lead more effective and efficient meetings.

Our Partners in Health team shared the goal of increasing Food Insecurity screening and connecting patients to food resources in the East Texas community. Attendees learned how the partnership was developed, early results, lessons learned, and plans to extend the program, focusing on how other communities might develop similar programs. Please click on the link below for more information about the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty.

KETK shares about our September 2022 Produce Drop and Community Resource Roadshow which served more than 780 members of our East Texas Community.

Check out our Smith County Food Security Council September 2022 Newsletter on our Facebook page.

Tyler Newspaper highlights the June 2022 Produce Drop and Community Resource Roadshow.

KETK shares about our June 2022 Produce Drop and Community Resource Roadshow, which served more than 680 members of our East Texas Community.

We are so grateful for our rapidly growing coalition and cannot express the joy this brings us. We felt that all of our members new and seasoned needed something to refresh their minds what the Smith County Food Security Council is about. This video provides in depth information on our coalition to help everyone get to know us more please feel free to share with anyone and everyone!

Tyler nurse Celeste Fisher grew up eating one meal a day because her family could not afford to buy food. Her dad usually got the most to eat because he worked a manual labor job and needed the energy. “It wasn’t until the fifth-grade year that I realized breakfast and lunch were normal parts of the day,” she said. “I got those at school, but in the summer we had supper only.”