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Home My WebLink AboutCOM 0193.008 1996-1998 . _ ~ ~ i Ii~waii Island Food Bank ~~-----9-~' Coun ouncil /u ` ~ A project of Hawall Island Catholic Social Ministry I BACKGROUND: The Hawaii Island Food Bank is a nonprofit organization that collects food from the community 'and distributes it to over 130 member agencies throughout Hawaii County. Since 1989, the Food Bank has distributed over 6.5 million I'I pounds of food to these agencies which feed the hungry of the Big Island. Each month 8,000 requests for food and 45,000 meals are served by emergency shelters, day care programs, food pantries, soup kitchens, and senior citizen food programs. MISSION: To prevent the waste of all edible food in Hawaii County. To feed the needy and hungry with this salvaged food. • To educate the community about the,problem of hunger and wKat can be done to help fight it. .SUPPORT: The Hawaii Island Food Bank is sustained by contributions, grants, fundraising drives and a shared maintenance contribution (SMC) contributed by member agencies. Volunteers are vital to the Food hank's mission as they assist with the salvage and preparation of donated items end offer their valuable help at various events throughout the year. ~ ' HOW DOES THE FOOD BANK WORK? Donor Sources Hawaii Island Food Bank ; > Nonprofit Member Agencies Hawaii's Hungry II I , Donor sources include the Second Harvest National Food Bank Network, national manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, food retailers. The hungry of Hawaii include the unemployed, homeless, single parent families, and mental) and h sically workin oor, the battered and abused, elderly, disabled, Y P Y 9P challenged. it COST EFFECTIVENESS: For every $1 received, the Hawaii Island Food Bank is able to provide $15 worth of food to its member agencies feeding those in need. How? The Food Bank provides food with an average retail cost of $2.25/pound for $.14lpound (SMC) to its agencies. This translates to a value of approximately $15. A little can go along wdy! it - F41a TQa.-_.~.__ Presented Ns~oe. 1 ~ ite~. 3MCx__MAR -„9 199v . .e ' The Mobiles Care Health Project St. FYancia Healthcare System and Hawau Leland Catholic Social Ministry Update -Summary of the First 30 Days of Operation The Mobile~Care Heahh Project darted services January 6, 1997. The project began with social service counseling and screenings, intakes to collect demographic information and determine eligibility, heahh assessments and dental screenings at 6 rural sites in West Hawaii. A map is attached and a schedule for the van to show the areas and the distances between sites. 77te fast 60 days have been very exciting and fiuitfuL W e began our services with screenings, heahh assessments, and oral screenings in order to get a "feel" for the problems/concerns of the population we would be serving. We began our services with intake, heahh assessments from an RN end dental screenings only. We also have a representative from the Mental Health Division preset at the sites to provide mental health screenings and outreach services, and our Cara-A-Van outreach staff on site to provide other types of counseling services for the homeless population. St. Francis has hired three dentists (one that serves each area so the same dentist goes to the same spot every week}. The project is working with the two community health centers on the island to provide the medical services component to the project and we plan to have this in place in the next two months. At the end of the month, (January 27th) we began to provide dental treatments for returning patients. Below is a summary of the dental and heahh assessment services that were provided by the staff on the vans. DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON PERSONS SEEN BY THE MOBILE~CARE PROJECT. Number of Unduniicated People Seen at the different sites is the firot 2 weeks of oaerstion $156 Gender A e Ethnicl Medical Resources Male 74 <1 1 Caucasian 62 Nome 75 Female 89 1-S 9 Hwn/PtHwn 35 VEST 43 6-12 16 Hi 'c 23 Medicaid 15 ftesidenc 13-18 7 J ese oval 6 Kaiser 3 Lon -time resident 133 19-44 82 Native American 1 HMSA 14 3 months - 2 eaze 20 43-60 38 Mixed Race 14 Medicare 16 < 3 months, lane to 8 60+ 10 Fili ' 0 11 VA Medical 3 Transient 2 Other 9 Other 1 Dental Insurance Coverage: Please note that the medical coverage reported is only for medical coverage. Most I people seen had no dental coverage other than the adults on QUEST. It is important to note that the people on QLTES7 were adults and only have coverage for emergency dental care (the tooth must be abscessed and the dental coverage will only allow the tooth to be pulled). It is our policy that if a child has dental coverage under the QUEST program, we refer t}tan to the dentist they are assigne to. If an adult is covered under QUEST we will see than for care. Many of the adults that have come to us have needed fillings, erc. that are not part of their dental coverage. It is our belief that if we can provide this service, these adults will find themselves with abscessed teeth that need to be pulled. Ali other people seen met the low-income requirements and did not have detrtal coverage. Three dentists are employed by the project. The same detrtist goes to the same area each week. Hawaii Island Catholic Social Ministry is responsible for the oversight and etnployment of the Outreach Nurse, Dtiver/Imake Worker and the Program Coordinator. Blow is a synopsis of the program and the services provided to the individual communities in th first few weeks of operatiott (January 6 -January 29, 1997}. o Level of Services Provided by Are AREA Served Services Provided Number of Number of unduplicate people d persons turned served. away because clinic was full Kawaihae New Patients 22 12 (North Kohala) Returning Patients 9 Intakes 22 Health Assessments 19 Oral Assessments 15 X-Rays 14 Medications 1 Operative 3 Oral Surgery 2 Endontics 2 Honoka'a (Hamakua) New Patients 25 14 Intakes 25 Health Assessments 25 Oral Assessments 21 X-Rays 11 Medications 1 Operative 1 Oral Surgery 1 Endontics Kailua-Kona New Patients 66 22 Returning Patients 35 Intake 65 Health Assessments 55 Oral Assessments 45 X-Rays 20 Medications 15 Operative 15 Periodontal 1 Oral Surgery 12 Endodonics 4 Hawaiian Ocean View Estates (HOVE) New Patients 17 10 Returning Patients 15 Intakes 17 Health Assessments 17 Oral Assessments 12 Xrays 8 Medicaitions 2 Operative 3 Periodontal 7 Oral Surgery 1 Endondontics 0 Repair of Appliance 1 2 Naalehu Service Number Not Seeu Seeu New Patient 26 15 Returning Patient 11 Intake 26 Health Assessment 27 X-Rays 16 Operative 12 Periodontal 8 Oral Surgery 4 Endodonics 3 Repair 3 3