Food pantries face many challenges, including recruitment and training of staff/volunteers, communications with staff/volunteers and clients, providing client choice, and emergency preparedness. The investigators will develop, implement, and evaluate the Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS), a mobile application to address these concerns under normal and emergency operations, and assess its impact on 20 Baltimore food pantries, and on the healthiness of foods received by 360 food pantry clients using a randomized controlled trial design. If successful, the tested and refined app will support local food assistance programs throughout the United States.
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AI-rewrites the medical criteria so a patient or caregiver can understand them. Always confirm with the trial site.
Change in Client FAST Scores as assessed by the Food Assessment Scoring Tool (FAST)
Timeframe: 1 hour, 14 months