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IN THE NEWS

Help Me Help You kicks off bimonthly free grocery event at McKinley Elementary School

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February 23rd, 2023 - Tess Kazenoff, Journalist, Long Beach Post

Help Me Help You is launching its “Nutrition Knights Grocery Grab N Go” service to 9th District residents in need at McKinley Elementary School on Friday, Feb. 24, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. The new location at McKinley Elementary School, located at 6822 Paramount Blvd. (entrance at Main Street), will operate every second and fourth Friday. It’s meant to meet increasing need due to inflation rates and rising food prices, according to a statement.

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Help Me Help needs a helping hand from the community

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February 7th, 2023 - Samantha Diaz, Managing Director, Signal Tribune

Twice a month, over 500 seniors in Long Beach are greeted with smiling, masked faces from volunteers bringing fresh, free, ready-to-cook groceries straight to their doorstep. The seniors, most of them from low-income areas in Long Beach, are also offered help navigating various programs they might qualify for—CalFresh, Social Security, Medi-Cal, General Relief, credit recovery, and more. 

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Non-Profit Helps Older Adults in Long Beach with Food Insecurities

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December 19, 2022 - The Community Guide In Action

Millions of adults aged 60 and older in the United States are food insecure. These adults have lower nutrient intake and suffer worse health outcomes compared with older adults who are food secure. Help Me Help You (HMHY), a Long Beach, California-based nonprofit organization, adapted a Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommendation for home-delivered and congregate meal services for older adults to address the issue of food insecurity.

Help Me Help You connect residents to social services, benefits

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March 24, 2022 - Tess Kazenoff, The Long Beach Post

Starting at 8:30 a.m. every Wednesday and Friday, Help Me Help You volunteers gather in assembly-line fashion as music plays, packing and loading up to 600 bags of fresh produce, meat, and dairy products for a grocery Grab N’ Go event.

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Help Me Help You launches new food pantry program to fight childhood hunger in Long Beach

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March 15, 2021 - Signal Tribune

The community-based non-profit organization Help Me Help You (HMHY) has initiated the new Nutrition Knights program to provide and encourage access to free, nutritious groceries at LBUSD schools in order to combat the food insecurity that has been increasingly faced by children and families during the coronavirus pandemic.

Before the pandemic arrived in the United States, one in seven children were living in a household that was experiencing food insecurity, but that rate has now grown to one in four children, according to an HMHY press release.

PRESS RELEASES

SCAN Health Plan Supports LBFPD To Reduce Senior Hunger

November 12, 2022

Long Beach, California – With a shared commitment to keeping seniors healthy, SCAN Health Plan supports Long Beach Food Pantry Delivery (LBFPD). This free community service is dedicated to combating the growing levels of senior hunger and malnutrition in Long Beach by providing free weekly nutritious groceries home-delivered to seniors in need. Read more...

Long Beach Food Pantry Delivery Reduces Senior Malnutrition

​August 17, 2022 

Long Beach, California – With a shared commitment to keeping seniors healthy, SCAN Health Plan supports Long Beach Food Pantry Delivery (LBFPD). This free community service is dedicated to combating the growing levels of senior hunger and malnutrition in Long Beach by providing free weekly nutritious groceries home-delivered to seniors in need. Read more...

Help Me Help You Curb Hunger & Homelessness With Free Services

​July 13, 2022 

Long Beach, California – With news headlines reporting a 40-year record high 9.1% surge in inflation and a 62% increase of homeless people in Long Beach since 2020, many are left feeling helpless and fearful of being added to the statistics. Fortunately, Help Me Help you provides free essential services and resources to support all in need and to curb the rising rates of homelessness. Read more...

New Saturday School Food Pantry Serves Long Beach 8th District, Residents

​December 15, 2021

Long Beach, California – In the spirit of giving and spreading joy, Help Me Help You (HMHY) launches its 10th Long Beach food pantry location at Perry Lindsey Academy, just in time for the holiday season on Saturday, December 18th from 12 PM to 2 PM. A Long Beach 8th District Representative will officially launch the festivities in a ribbon-cutting ceremony, inviting children and families in need to receive free nutritious groceries, and gifts; as well as meet Nutrition Knight, and more. Read more...

Program to encourage Long Beach Children to Adopt Healthy Habits

​September 15, 2021 

Long Beach, California – Help Me Help You will run a Nutrition Knights Healthy Habits program during the month of October at select Long Beach elementary schools to encourage 5th-grade students to adopt healthy eating and living routines. Read more...

City of Long Beach Supports Free Groceries Delivered to Seniors in Need

​August 4, 2021 

Long Beach, California – City of Long Beach supports Long Beach Food Pantry Delivery to deliver free nutritious groceries to the homes of senior residents in need. This service is provided by Help Me Help You (HMHY) in a mission to win the fight against hunger among our most vulnerable senior residents. Read More...

Help Me Help You Opens 5th Food Pantry

July 7, 2021 

Long Beach, California – Help Me Help You (HMHY) commences 5th Nutrition Knights school food pantry location at Whittier Elementary School, on Wednesday, July 21st from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, to feed children and families in need with free nutritious groceries.

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Help Me Help You Opens 4th School Food Pantry To Serve Hardest Hit Long Beach Areas

May 18, 2021 

Long Beach, California – Help Me Help You (HMHY) commenced the 4th Nutrition Knights school food pantry location at Lincoln Elementary School, on May 12th, 2021, to feed those greatest in need by expanding access to free healthy groceries. Communities that were already battling with food insecurity prior to the COVID-19 pandemic have grown in numbers, as hunger remains a critical problem for Long Beach children and their families. With the recent reopening of schools, the Nutrition Knights food pantry service also provides the opportunity to entice children and families back into the school environment. Read More...

Join The Nutrition Knights Festivities At Long Beach Schools

April 14, 2021 

Long Beach, California – Help Me Help You (HMHY) invites residents to the official Nutrition Knights school food pantry launch celebrations on May 14th, 2021 at Oropeza, May 19th at Cesar Chavez, and May 21st at Stevenson Elementary Schools. The Nutrition Knights launch aims to encourage children and their families to access free nutritious groceries while enticing them back to the school environment with fun festivities. Read More...

HMHY, First To Operate School Food Pantries To Counter Child Food Insecurity

March 10, 2021 

Long Beach, California –Help Me Help You (HMHY) launches the Nutrition Knights program to help combat growing cases of child hunger by providing and encouraging access to free healthy groceries in Long Beach school locations. With the economic fallout from the COVID pandemic as well as school closures; the ability to access food has dramatically decreased for many children and their families. 

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New Food Pantry Location to Cater To Rising Food Insecurity Crisis in Long Beach

February 2, 2021 

Long Beach, California –Help Me Help You (HMHY) launches a new food pantry location at Cesar Chavez Elementary School commencing 3rd February 2021. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and millions of Americans still out of work, hunger remains a fast-growing and critical problem for our residents. The domino effect of an increase in economic instability and health crisis sadly equates to climbing rates of food insecurity - explained as a lack of consistent access to enough food to maintain a healthy life. Read More...

Help Me Help You Ensures More Residents Receive Comprehensive Lifesaving Services

January 13, 2021 

Long Beach, California –Help Me Help You (HMHY) joins the Unite Us network to provide the increasing number of residents in need with quality essential services to improve their health and live their best possible lives. Read More...

Help Me Help You Delivers Food Pantry Directly to Residents Affected by COVID-19

January 7, 2021 

Long Beach, California –Help Me Help You (HMHY) launches new Long Beach Food Pantry Delivery service to extend free nutritional groceries to residents who are in need and unable to access their 6 food pantry locations due to health conditions. This service will protect the Long Beach community to ensure the elderly, sick, and COVID-19 affected residents are able to access nutritional food safely as well as prevent further infection in the community. Read More...

Previous Events

Ground-breaking Social Security Success Improves Lives

December 14, 2020 

Long Beach, California –Help Me Help You (HMHY) launches new national Benefits Access Support service to extend expert social security claims enrollment assistance to the general public. This service will ensure more residents can access their greatly needed financial entitlements during the economic challenges presented by the COVID-19 crisis. Read More...

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