Client Choice |
Designing for Choice focuses around the term "client choice." Client choice is where food pantry clients can choose some or all of the food they bring home. Clients can use a shopping cart and walk the aisles or pick available foods from a list. Help for implementing client choice can be found in the Client Choice Manual. We are releasing a new short video, in both VHS and DVD formats, promoting the "Client Choice" approach to distributing goods at food pantries. Inspired by Indiana TEFAP program mandate for client choice practices and previous videos by the Safe Food for the Hungry Program, (Ken McKan the Food Safety Man!) we are pleased to promote best practices in a creative and entertaining manner. The Recipient Agencies in Indiana will receive our new Designing for Choice video free of charge! Individual food assistance organizations may arrange to borrow the video from their Recipient Agencies or purchase one from our Agricultural Communications Department. Purdue University student actors collaborated with Lafayette Civic Theatre professionals to enact Isobel Miller’s engaging story about a design team that helps food pantry personnel make improvements toward a greater level of client choice. Carol Boushey and Martha Gipson produced the video with partial funding from Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Family and Children, Housing and Community Services Section, Community Food and Nutrition Program. Filming and directing was provided by Robert M. Hart from the Office of Information Technology at Purdue University. TO ORDER The free Safe Food for the Hungry 2005 satellite videoconference is to help emergency feeding programs better meet the needs of their clientele through "client choice."
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