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MCC Daily Tribune

WROC-TV Airs Segment About Food Insecurity

News8 (WROC-TV) interviewed John Delate, associate vice president of Student Services for the Brighton Campus, for a Feb. 4 segment about the impact of food pantries on students across the SUNY system. Delate spoke about MCC's efforts to combat food insecurity, including DWIGHT (Doing What is Good and Healthy Together initiative).

The TV news report came after Gov. Cuomo's office announced key findings by the SUNY System Administration's Food Insecurity Task Force on food pantry usage. All SUNY campuses have a food pantry on or in affiliation with their campus to combat student food insecurity.

Some of the key findings*:

  • Food pantries on or partnered with SUNY's 64 colleges saw more than 316,000 visits in 2019.
  • Individual food pantries on or partnered with community colleges had a range of 25-60 visits per day and averaged more than 5,700 visits for the year.
  • In total, food pantries on or partnered with SUNY's community colleges experienced roughly 171,000 visits in 2019.
  • Individual food pantries on or partnered with state-operated campuses had a range of 25-50 visits per day and averaged more than 4,700 visits for the year.
  • In total, food pantries on or partnered with SUNY's state-operated colleges experienced more than 145,000 visits in 2019.

*Pantry visit estimates are based on headcounts at food pantries system-wide, taken on given days throughout 2019.

Breakdown of Visits to Campus/Campus-Partnered Food Pantries by Region

  • North Country: More than 31,000 visits
  • Central New York: Nearly 35,000 visits
  • Finger Lakes: Nearly 22,000 visits
  • Western New York: More than 41,000 visits
  • Southern Tier: More than 30,000 visits
  • Capital Region:More than 32,000 visits
  • Mid-Hudson: More than 43,500 visits
  • New York City: More than 15,000 visits
  • Long Island:More than 30,000 visits
  • Mohawk Valley: Nearly 36,000 visits

Click to watch News8 video clip: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/statewide-campus-food-pantry-initiative-no-student-goes-hungry/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_News_8

 

Hency Yuen-Eng
Government and Community Relations
02/06/2020