Hunger in America 2010 Local Report Prepared for The Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida

Feb 1, 2010

This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 62,000 clients served by the FA national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. The study summarized below focuses on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the FA network. Key Findings:
  • The FA system served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida provides emergency food for an estimated 731,900 different people annually.
  • 47% of the members of households served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2).
  • 33% of households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1).
  • Among households with children, 64% are food insecure and 35% are food insecure with very low food security (Table 6.1.1.1).
  • 55% of clients served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1).
  • 32% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1).
  • 23% of households served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida report having at least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1)
  • The Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida included approximately 489 agencies at the administration of this survey, of which 338 have responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 275 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter.
  • 79% of pantries, 63% of kitchens, and 53% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1).
  • Among programs that existed in 2006, 86% of pantries, 74% of kitchens, and 49% of shelters of The Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1).
  • Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 78% of the food distributed by pantries, 52% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 38% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1).
  • As many as 92% of pantries, 79% of kitchens, and 72% of shelters in The Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida use volunteers (Table 13.2.1).

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