
A substantial number of our community’s most vulnerable people regularly experience hunger because they cannot physically access neighborhood food banks and meal programs. This problem is particularly
severe among public housing residents for whom age, disability, serious illness and extreme poverty — as well as language and cultural issues — create tremendous barriers to accessing emergency food.
Grocery Delivery, a project of Solid Ground's Partners in Caring program, coordinates weekly grocery deliveries at seven Seattle Housing Authority buildings for seniors and people living with disabilities who are at high risk for hunger. The program connects vulnerable and isolated adults with community resources that support basic sustenance and improved health, nutrition and wellness — and can identify and intervene when vulnerable seniors are failing to thrive or experience a decline in health and wellness.

Your gift of...
$600 delivers groceries to a homebound person for 1 year.
$300 delivers groceries to a homebound person for 6 months.
$100 delivers groceries to a homebound person for 2 months.
$50 delivers groceries to a homebound person for 1 month.
- Q13 News report on how grocery delivery can be a lifeline: More than 95% of seniors and people living with disabilities in Seattle public housing do not have adequate access to healthy food, as recent research from Solid Ground’s Hunger Action Center shows. This Q13 story covers the hunger study results and tells the powerful story of Mary Rolfe, one public housing resident for whom Partners in Caring’s grocery delivery service is a literal lifeline.
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Impacts of nutrition and human services interventions on the health of elderly and disabled persons in public housing (PDF) — This report by Solid Ground's 2008-09 Congressional Hunger Fellow Collin Siu is the first research evaluating supportive services funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development ROSS RSDM – Elderly and Persons with Disabilities grant. The study provides evidence that nutrition and human services interventions improve the health of seniors and people living with disabilities. Services decrease social isolation, the non-treatment of chronic conditions, and the proportion of evictions that result in the tenant having to leave his/her unit. However, residents still face significant barriers to accessing healthy foods, low fruit and vegetable intake, and a high rate of chronic conditions that warrant more attention to this vulnerable population. For information contact paulh@solid-ground.org.
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Phone: 206.694.6731
TTY: 7.1.1
Email: pic@solid-ground.org
FAX: 206.694.6777
Address: Grocery Delivery Project / Partners in Caring
Solid Ground
1501 North 45th Street
Seattle, WA 98103-6708