Sweet and Sour Charity: Experiences of Receiving Emergency Relief in Australia

Frederick, John; Goddard, Christopher Rex

doi:10.1080/03124070802229763

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“…The complex social and health needs of some clients mean specialist services and longterm support are required to care for these individuals. 90,91 For example, a cross-sectional study of soup kitchen clients (n=100) revealed one in three had difficulty in following prescribed medication treatments 92 and a Salvation Army report (n=1,731 clients) identified 78% could not afford to get to a doctor and 71% felt stressed for their future. 93 Halcrow reflected that Indigenous Australians were over-represented as clients of his services in New South Wales.…”

Section: Food Service Provisionmentioning

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Still serving hot soup? Two hundred years of a charitable food sector in Australia: a narrative review

Lindberg

Whelan²,

Lawrence

et al. 2015

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: Despite the importance of the charitable food sector for a proportion of the Australian population, there is uncertainty about its present and future contributions to wellbeing. This paper describes its nature and examines its scope for improving health and food security. Methods:The review, using systematic methods for public health research, identified peerreviewed and grey literature relevant to Australian charitable food programs (2002 to 2012).Results: Seventy publications met the criteria and informed this paper. The sector includes food banks, more than 3,000 community agencies and 800 school breakfast programs. It provides food for up to two million people annually. The scope extends beyond emergency food relief and includes case management, advocacy and other support. Weaknesses include a food supply that is sub-optimal, resource limitations and lack of evidence to evaluate or support their work towards food security. Conclusions:The sector supports people experiencing disadvantage and involves multiple organisations, working in a variety of settings, to provide food for up to 8% of the population. The limits on the sector's capacity to address food insecurity by itself must be acknowledged so that civil society, government and the food industry can support sufficient, nutritious and affordable food for all.

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Section: Food Service Provisionmentioning

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Still serving hot soup? Two hundred years of a charitable food sector in Australia: a narrative review

Lindberg

Whelan²,

Lawrence

et al. 2015

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…Barriers to accessing charitable food programs include food supplies that are inadequate or inappropriate, ad-hoc access criteria and a mismatch of services with community needs (10,11). People may feel guilt and embarrassment about seeking out charitable support (12) and ethnographic research has demonstrated how charitable programs represent social exclusion via client non-participation in mainstream consumer culture (13). Conversely, Wicks and colleagues found that soup-kitchen clients attended meals and valued the social interaction and connectedness (14).…”

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Kitchens and Pantries—Helping or Hindering? The Perspectives of Emergency Food Users in Victoria, Australia

Lindberg

Lawrence

Caraher

2016

Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition

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“…The experiences of abuse and neglect reported by the interviewees led to extensive personal, social and health‐related problems, together with poverty, in their adult lives (Frederick 2004, Frederick & Goddard 2006, 2007, 2008a,b).…”

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‘It’s been really, really hard’: a qualitative study of the health problems of people receiving emergency relief in Australia

Frederick

Goddard

2009

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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The aim of the research reported in this paper was to explore the perspectives and insights of emergency relief recipients in relation to their complex health problems, which had contributed to their position of needing to seek emergency relief. The sample consisted of 20 adults aged between 19 and 51 years who had received emergency relief in a regional city in Victoria, Australia. Non-probability sampling was used, employing the convenience sampling procedure. A qualitative, exploratory research approach utilising in-depth interviews was selected to obtain data from the respondents. The method of data analysis used involved open, axial and selective coding. The main findings were that the participants experienced abuse and neglect in childhood, the effects of mental health problems, going without food, lack of access to and the high cost of health care, and the interactive aspects of health problems and poverty. Implications for policy and service delivery are outlined.

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Sweet and Sour Charity: Experiences of Receiving Emergency Relief in Australia

Cited by 18 publications

References 10 publications

Still serving hot soup? Two hundred years of a charitable food sector in Australia: a narrative review

Still serving hot soup? Two hundred years of a charitable food sector in Australia: a narrative review

Kitchens and Pantries—Helping or Hindering? The Perspectives of Emergency Food Users in Victoria, Australia

‘It’s been really, really hard’: a qualitative study of the health problems of people receiving emergency relief in Australia

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