Table 2.

Coordinated Food Assistance Network: Vision and Goals, updated May 2020 [18].

Vision: A unified system of food assistance that ensures equitable, dignified, and culturally appropriate access to nutritious food for all residents of Greater New Haven.
Goal 1	Support the coordination of neighborhood-based food programs in New Haven, aligning locations and hours. Ensure that needs are met, emphasizing underserved communities and addressing gaps.
Goal 2	Create universal eligibility requirements for all food assistance programs to reduce barriers to access, commensurate with available resources.
Goal 3	Streamline and coordinate a universal intake process across sites to enable data collection that informs service improvement, performance measurement, and system coverage.
Goal 4	Provide means and support system for ensuring that food, supplies, volunteers, transportation support services, training resources, and other resources can be pooled or shared when appropriate. Ensure resources are distributed equitably across the food system. Especially, ensure formal structures are in place for equitably responding to emergencies and disasters, both acute and chronic.
Goal 5	Promote quality standards across the system for nutrition and food safety.
Goal 6	Provide effective and systematic training on cultural humility to ensure staff and volunteers of food assistance programs treat all guests with dignity, respect, and love.