[Natfinwellness] Food Insecurity and Financial Wellness

[Schor, Meredith]

Anyone referred to our food bank, by the Dean of Students, is sent to the
financial aid office for budget counseling and making good financial
choices.  Generally, in my experience (one year with a food bank at GW)
food insecurity is tied to the student putting others ahead of themselves.
We have had to do a little reality check/tough love/ self love-care with
them. It has only been a few students so far (knocking on wood).  Students
can find the food bank on their own and we miss out on counseling those
students directly (indirectly we have web tools).

Good luck with your program.




Meredith Schor, MA, MBA
Director, Financial Aid

The George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
2300 I St. NW, Suite 106
Washington, DC 20052
202.994.2960
fax 202.994.9488
mschor1 at gwu.edu <mschor1 at law.gwu.edu>

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On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Kendall McCamy <kmccamy at westga.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
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> Our campus is in the early stages of exploring various food insecurity
> alleviation models and feels financial wellness information should be
> incorporated into these efforts. For those of you who have food banks,
> gardens, partnerships, food emergency funds, etc.: What have you found to
> be effective approaches to incorporating personal financial wellness
> education into your food distribution methods? Feel free to email me
> off-thread with any helpful feedback, good or bad!
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> Thanks,
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> *Kendall* *McCamy*
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> *Sr. Financial Aid Advisor*
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