Please read the Call for Proposals carefully before filling out the form below to submit your session proposal. The deadline has passed and we are making initial decisions about proposals. We are accepting additional proposals on a rolling basis as we have presentation space available. We look forward to reading your proposals!

The 2022 Hunger and Health Summit: Reimagined Resiliency, will be held on April 24-26th, 2022 at the Chula Vista Resort in the Wisconsin Dells.

These past two years have presented our neighbors and communities with enormous challenges. Yet, we have been resourceful and innovative in working to end hunger, improve health, and strengthen our communities. As we move forward, faced with a new norm, we will remain responsive and resilient as we work toward a healthy and hunger-free Wisconsin.

In hosting the 2022 Hunger and Health Summit, we are excited for the opportunity to bring together stakeholders - hunger fighters, nutrition advocates, service providers, health promoters, food and farming advocates, community builders, legislators, producers, and food industry - to share best practice, develop collaborative initiatives, and support one another as we consider our ending hunger and health improving role in this season of reimagined resiliency.

We understand that the COVID-19 situation is fluid. Please submit a proposal with the intention of presenting in-person and we will adjust as the public health situation requires.

FORMAT

The summit will follow five tracks to support a wide range of Hunger & Health themes. The 6th Summit will explore diverse ways to move forward together in our work to end hunger and improve health, with a focus on the strength of partnerships, equity and access. Sessions will be 75 or 90 minutes in length and can be delivered in the format of your choice: panel, lecture, interactive workshop, or any format that you are expert in facilitating.   Sessions will be 75 or 90 minutes in length and can be delivered in the format of your choice: panel, lecture, interactive workshop, or any format that you are expert in facilitating. 

SUGGESTED TOPICS 

The following topics were suggested from the previous Summit Evaluations. Please feel free to utilize this as a guide for developing your proposal as these are the sessions that attendees have expressed interest in. In parenthesis, we have provided potential tracks as an example of the how different sessions might fit into tracks.

• Building capacity for cross-sector partnerships/community health efforts (Track 5: Community Partnerships)
• Advocacy Trainings (Could fit in any track depending on topic and approach)
• Farm Bill, SNAP and impacts on hunger and health (Track 3: Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs)
• School food regulations (Track 3: Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs)
• Mental health connections with food insecurity (Track 4: Economic Security or Track 5: Community Partnerships)
• The influence and intersection of race/gender/class and/or ability on hunger (potentially all tracks) 
• School and community gardens and linkages to schools and pantries (Track 1: Access and/or Track 2: 21st Century Emergency Food System))
• Facilitated Food Pantry Roundtables (Track 2: 21st Century Emergency Food System)
• Increasing local fundraising for initiatives (all tracks)
• The Business Case for Healthy & Hunger-Free Communities (all tracks)
• Engaging non-traditional partners in fighting hunger and improving health (all tracks)
• Evaluating needs of the community; using community health needs assessment or other assessments to drive programs (Track 5: Community Partnerships)
• Fighting hunger to improve health in the Healthy Wisconsin 2022 plan (Track 5: Community Partnerships; Track 4: Economic Security)
• Local food programs/efforts and how it can (or can't) help end the hunger issue (Track 1: Access; Track 2: 21st Century Emergency Food System)
• What are the experiences of the people with lived experience with nutrition programs, emergency food programs and BadgerCare and how they engage/utilize these programs?  (Track 2: 21st Century Emergency Food System; Track 4: Economic Security; Track 5: Community Partnerships)
• How do we actually educate people on eating healthy - practical advice on how to adapt existing nutrition education practices into disparate local communities (Track 1: Access; Track 2: 21st Century Emergency Food System; Track 3: Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs)
• What are realistic, evidence based solutions to ending hunger? (All tracks)

SELECTION CRITERIA

To ensure full and fair consideration, proposals will be evaluated and selected by the Hunger Summit Planning Committee according to criteria that include:

• Relevance – directly addresses a selected topic track. A preference will be added to proposals that address the suggestions from the previous Summit evaluations. Collaborative proposals across sectors will also be given additional priority.
• Health in all Sessions - incorporates health equity concepts or successfully addresses how proposed session improves the health of people and/or communities.
• Clarity – offers a clear description of the proposed session and learning objectives. Selection committee - and attendees - should have a clear sense of what you are proposing to offer in your session.
• Innovation – displays innovations or originality.
• Application – participants will be able to learn practical tools or lessons.
• Balance – the conference planning committee strives to create a balanced program covering a wide range of topics with diverse presenters.

Everyone who submitted proposals by January 31st will be notified of selection decisions no later than Tuesday, February 8th, 2022.

All proposals for the 2022 Hunger and Health Summit must be submitted electronically via this form or via email.

If you have any questions, please email Stephanie Dorfman.