Your registration fee includes full access to all conference sessions and materials, breakfast, lunch, and access to the networking reception on Monday, breakfast on Tuesday, as well as refreshments and snacks throughout the conference.

8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

In this opening session, our expert faculty will highlight real-life student experiences that bust myths about the nationwide food insecurity epidemic. These personal stories will also speak to the impact student food insecurity programs have had on their lives. You will also learn in detail about our speakers’ respective campus food pantries and supplemental programs.

Building or sustaining campus food pantries require conscience advocacy, information gathering, and compelling data to propel these initiatives forward. We will help you begin your efforts by collecting and organizing critical information such as:

• Student experiences and needs
• State regulations
• Food handling requirements
• Storage spaces and locations
• Staffing considerations
• Supply and demand
• Marketing plans

After discussing these considerations, our experts will share useful advice and tips to help you address future inquiries, concerns, or hesitations around building or sustaining a food insecurity program on your campus.

Our expert faculty will share their own internal and external outreach efforts for identifying critical partners who played a significant role in establishing or sustaining their food program efforts. We will discuss what kind of partners are necessary and where to find them, how to present the case to them, and what resources they could provide. You will learn tactful tips for engaging partners in these important conversations and establishing positive relationships.

During this hour, you will learn ways our faculty created their campus infrastructure to support their food insecurity initiatives. We will share strategies for creative resourcing for space, staffing, donations, marketing efforts, and how to reach students. You will have the opportunity to consider these tactics for your own campus and analyze ways you can build and sustain your own systems to better serve food insecure students.

Communication and outreach to students who are food insecure is a crucial goal for campuses who wish to better serve them. You will explore diverse strategies to reach students in need through different channels such as email, advertisements, referral programs, social media, and more. We will also discuss how to mitigate stigma for students who are food insecure.

This informal reception is your chance to decompress, have some refreshments on us, and expand your network of connections. Our programs are intentionally designed for smaller groups, so this is a great time to catch-up with attendees and speakers whom you may not have connected with yet.

8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

In addition to traditional campus food pantries, some institutions have designed comprehensive and diverse programs to reach their food insecure students. In this session, you will hear some of these innovative ideas and programmatic efforts that will not only help you reach more students but also raise awareness of the food insecurity issue across campus.

We will discuss strategies for assessing whether your food insecurity program is meeting student supply-and-demand, as well as identify further data points to build the case for additional funding and staffing needs. Drawing on examples from their own campuses, our experts will share unique and impactful ways that data has been collected and shared to promote student food insecurity efforts.

With the assistance of our expert panel, you will have the opportunity to determine your top priorities when it comes to advocating for or sustaining your food insecurity program. In this working session, you will outline goals and draw up an action plan for when you return to campus.

Addressing Housing Insecurity in Higher Education: Program and Practice Considerations

1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Your registration fee includes the post-conference workshop and materials, lunch on Tuesday, as well as refreshments.

Supporting homeless students, or those without adequate shelter, is a growing need that college administrators are beginning to address. In this optional workshop, you will hear from passionate experts who have a state-wide plan to implement programs combating housing insecurity and meeting this growing epidemic head-on.

This session is designed to raise awareness of the problem while helping you develop a strategy that will allow your campus to provide sustainable, long-term solutions for your housing insecure students.

Our expert faculty will:

• Highlight national data, facts, and student voices on the topic of housing insecurity
• Help you forecast and interpret state plans that mandate institutional assistance to housing insecure students
• Share best practices of model housing insecurity programs including lessons learned and advice
• Discuss strategies to access housing accommodations including grant funding, community resources, and external agency assistance.