ArticleJournal of health care for the poor and underserved2024
Improving Client Experience and Charitable Food Reach and Access at Food Pantries: A Qualitative Study.
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- The impact of online ordering on food security in a food pantry system in New York City.Translational behavioral medicine · 2025Trial
- Hungry for equity in the Green Mountain State: food insecurity among college students in Vermont.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Exploring the Availability and Accessibility of Halal Food Aid in New York City: A Multimethod Study.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2026Article
- Structural-Level Stigma Within Emergency Food Assistance Programs: Perspectives from Delaware and Pennsylvania.Delaware journal of public health · 2025Article
- "It makes you feel worthless." The lived experience of discrimination in the US food assistance system.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Partnering With Food Pantries to Disseminate and Implement Eating Disorder Interventions.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
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Abstract
Food pantries are promising community partners in health promotion. This study explored client perspectives in food pantries to inform new approaches to improve client experience, reach, and access. We interviewed 52 adult clients who visited participating food pantries two or more times over 12 months in Cook County, Illinois in English, Spanish, or Cantonese. We analyzed transcripts using the Health Equity Implementation Framework. Participants were 69% female, 48% Black, 29% Asian, and 15% Hispanic/Latino. Participants identified availability of healthy and high-quality foods, client choice models, client-personnel interactions, multilingual services, and wait times as influential to pantry reach and access. Participants felt that client feedback opportunities and client-led community outreach could successfully engage community members who avoided food pantries due to stigma. Creating opportunities for client-centered feedback may improve client experience, reach, and access of food pantries, reduce stigma, and optimize a novel setting for community-based health promotion in diverse populations.
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