HCSN Conference Call Notes:
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Download notes (MS Word .doc or Adobe Acrobat .pdf files) and call recordings (.mp3 files) from past HCSN Conference Calls.

 

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6-10-08 : Evaluating Corner Store Projects

Call Notes | Call Synthesis | Call Recording

3-20-08 : Funding Strategies and Sources

Call Notes | Call Synthesis | Call Recording

12-10-07 : Changes to WIC program guidelines and implications for corner stores

Issue Summary/Background Info

Call Notes | Call Recording

 

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Visit the Resources page for information on how recent changes in the WIC program will create incentives for stores in low-income areas to carry healthier items.

9-27-07 : Key challenges to bringing healthier foods into corner stores - and ways to address them

Call Notes | Call Recording

6-7-2007 : Introduction to the HCSN

Call Notes

Events

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HCSN Conference Calls

These are free, quarterly calls that include presentations and discussion about specific aspects of corner store work.

Call time: Thursday, September 4 from 12:00-1:15 PDT/3:00-4:15 EDT

Call-in number: (800) 868-1837, access code 523189#

Theme: Working with distributors to get healthy foods into corner stores

HCSN In-Person Meetings

These are informal networking meetings held in tandem with other events where HCSN participants are already gathered. Meetings will be held at the following events. Contact the person listed for the event if you would like to participate.

The Community Food Security Coalition’s 12th Annual Conference
October 4-8, 2008: Philadelphia, PA and Cherry Hill, NJ
Meeting time and place: TBA
Contact: Kai Siedenburg , CFSC

The conference theme is “Restoring our Urban and Rural Communities with Healthy Food.” It will include 50 workshops on a wide variety of food system issues, a dozen field trips, and five short courses.   There are numerous sessions on food retail issues, including:

  • A full-day “Corner Store Crash Course” led by James-Johnson Piett and Jerry Jones
  • An all-day field trip to food retail sites in Philadelphia
  • Plenary sessions on improving access to healthy food in underserved areas
  • Workshops on healthy corner stores 101, local sourcing and distribution, changes in the WIC food package, and ‘everything you ever wanted to know’ about grocery stores

Scholarships are available. For the conference schedule or more information, go to www.healthyfoodconference.com.