Putting Community into Food Security

Date: August 27, 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET

Speakers: Jill Umbach and the Bruce Grey Poverty Reduction Task Force

 

As the federal government releases its first ever National Food Policy, it is a timely opportunity to explore what communities are doing at a local and regional level to address food security issues and how they align with poverty reduction strategies.

Join us on this webinar to hear from Jill Umbach and her team from the Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force discuss how they have transformed approaches to food security in the area through: food security conversations, a community food centre model and the use of a food charter as a policy tool.

 

Speakers

Jill Umbach, Planning Network Coordinator, Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force

Jill Umbach

Jill Umbach is the Planning Network Coordinator for the Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force and Coordinator for the Grey Bruce Children’s Alliance. She is a certified Bridges Out of Poverty Trainer and Getting Ahead Facilitator.
Jill has over 35 years of experience working with local, national and international humanitarian aid agencies such as Care Canada and the Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation; and human rights-based and community service organizations such as Amnesty International. Her work has focused on poverty alleviation, community and women’s empowerment, human rights, advocacy/policy development and humanitarian needs response.

She has successfully designed and obtained funding for programmes to support rural and urban communities, internally displaced persons and refugees; mentally and physically challenged persons.

 

 

 

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