Agency Newsletter March 2024

Agency Newsletter - March 2024

Our March Partner Agency Coalition Meeting with One Colorado is March 20th!

One Colorado will join us for Part 2 of One Colorado’s LGBTQ+ Workshop for People Working in Food Systems on March 20th at 9:00 a.m.

This training dives deeper into gender identity, provides some additional tools around Spanish language inclusivity, and talks about microaggressions and bystander intervention. All participants will be eligible for the drawing of a Visa Gift Card at the end of each meeting! As usual, winner must be present to win.

SNAP Hotline is Live!

Care and Share is excited to announce that our SNAP Outreach team now has a hotline in English and Spanish to help Coloradans sign-up for the SNAP program. Please have any neighbor you know that needs to apply or recertify for SNAP call (719) 666-3849. If you have any questions please call the hotline or email snap@careandshare.org.

Service Insights Updates

Agencies are now LIVE on Service Insights on Meal Connect (SIMC)! We are thrilled with this progress and look forward to the launches and trainings scheduled for the coming weeks.

Once your agency has gone live in the SIMC system, you will be able to access reports like these that are specific to your own agency. Check out the document linked below to see what these reports can do for you!

Volunteer Highlight | Garrett's Story

We met Garrett, a student at Colorado State University Pueblo, and his mom during a recent food distribution in partnership with CSU, Mt. Carmel, and the Center for American Values. Through this partnership, we were able to provide food to veterans not just in Pueblo, but in 13 different counties across Southern Colorado!

“I love giving back to our veterans,” Garrett told us. “[Because of them], I developed a deep appreciation for what it means to serve.”

At the distribution, veterans could drive up and receive boxes of non-perishable items and bags of produce which included peppers, watermelons, and onions. Additionally, agencies were coming by throughout the day to pick up pallets of food to take back to the veterans in their communities.

Garrett put it best: “It’s a bountiful harvest.”

IMPORTANT DATES

Please use the Closure Dates webpage for your reference. We will be closed on the following days in March:

March 29th — No pick-ups for 5th week cleaning and inventory.

CURRENT FOOD RECALLS

Click here to view the latest recalls under the Food Recalls tab in the Agency Portal.

FOOD HANDLING REMINDER - REFRIGERATOR STORAGE

We love this food storage chart from StateFoodSafety. It not only shows categories of refrigerated food to store above and below each other, but also shows how this aligns with what tem peratures food items should be cooked to. Remember, we also want to keep all food 6 inches off the ground, with no chemical storage nearby.  

AGENCY HOTLINE

Our Agency Hotline is there for you to connect with us when you have training needs or issues with your orders and deliveries. Please contact us at 719-937-4547 or agencies@careandshare.org.