An organization needs assessment was conducted by the component director, Doreen Kinkel for the Board of Directors of the Food Bank and selected agencies of the Food Bank. Agencies participated in an assessment of operations as related to serving clients and organizational policies regarding clients. The primary purpose was to determine the current level of sensitivity to client issues to provide a data base to develop programs to work with agencies. This provided information about the extent of knowledge about what is available in the community to meet people's food needs and what an individual can do about it. People surveyed expressed concern for the community and the need to do more.
Results provide encouragement for the project to get more information and develop programs.
These students are being prepared to become catalysts for change in food systems professions education. The person in the foreground is the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, Dr. Charles A. DeYoung, next to him is the Department Chair of the Human Sciences Department, Dr. Janice Van Buren, the rest are faculty and other invited guests.