SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE FOOD EQUITY

(SAFE)

SAFE Mission and Vision

Our True North

All 70,000 children in Cincinnati have the food that they need to grow, develop, learn, and thrive.​

Our Guiding Principles

  • Neighbors are the experts and decision-makers

  • Listen first and build on what already exists

  • Continuous collaboration with the community

  • Foster and maintain open, transparent communication

  • Ensure everyone can access and inform data

  • Be mindful of diversity, create brave safe spaces

  • Learn from failure, grow and improve

SAFE Network Priorities

 
 

The SAFE Meal Gap Dashboard has been created in collaboration with community members and partners for all to use in tracking progress toward closing the meal gap in neighborhoods across Cincinnati. 

Be sure to visit the SAFE Meal Gap Dashboard to view the food resources map and find food distribution events.

Join Us As We Improve Food Security in Cincinnati

Please reach out if you are interested in learning more about SAFE or accessing resources within your neighborhood.

SAFE Interventions - Video

SAFE Annual Report

Inequity in food security is a massive, long-standing, deeply rooted, and urgent problem here in Cincinnati, Ohio, as in many other U.S. cities. Many factors drive food insecurity and inequity, including political, social, and logistical challenges and its elimination will require multiple points of intervention at multiple levels, from community to policy levels.

Within this report, you will find our efforts to date with a focus on our early impacts and how we have achieved them. We share our approach, along with our early successes, persistent challenges, and next steps in hopes that they may inform and inspire. We have a long way to go, and we are on our way.

SAFE Network Publications, Presentations & Additional Resources

  • Community-Led Interventions to Address Food Inequity

    Michelle C. Gorecki, MD, MPH, Vivian Sevilla, MBA, LSSGB, Kristen Gasperetti, MPA, Lauren Bartoszek, PhD, Madeline Chera, PhD, Kimberly Cutler, BS, Chika Okano, BS, Binny M. Samuel, PhD, MBA, Constance Stewart, MBA, Carley Riley, MD, MPP, MHS

  • Come back soon for SAFE presentations!

  • Come back soon for more SAFE resources!