HHAW

Want to learn more about the Residental Assistant experience at SFSU? Want to hear more about the application to become an SFSU RA?

Then join our free info session organized by a current RA to highlight the role RAs play in incoming students' academic journey! Learn about the work of being an RA along with the benefits of becoming an RA (including housing and a meal plan).

Join the info session via Zoom at https://bit.ly/SFSU-RA at 11 am (make sure to be signed into your SFSU Zoom account)!

Come and visit HPW's Self-Care Station out in front of the Student Services Building!

Their stations highlight that self-care is not a luxury, but a way to check in with oneself and promote positive mental health. Each self-car station provides a space and activity to learn about various self-care strategies, including:

• Self-reflection
• Practicing gratitude
• Engaging different senses (i.e. aromatherapy)
• Accessing campus resources

Gaaators, are you ready to test your cooking, creativity, and speed skills? 🍳

Welcome to the Chopped challenge hosted by Food+Shelter+Success for the 2023 Hunger and Houselessness Awareness Week (HHAW)! 

Inspired by Food Network's cooking competition show, Chopped, students will compete in teams before a panel of judges to turn four mystery ingredients into a delicious dish. Teams will be judged on the tastiness of the dish, presentation, and cleanliness of their cooking station. 

Capacity is limited to 20 competitors and sign-ups are first come, first serve! If you think you can help your team survive the chopping block, click ahead to sign up and learn more about the rules! 🔥🔪
 

The competition will take place on November 13th (Time location TBD but will be after 3pm).

Chopped challenge rules:
- Each team will have 4 to 5 chefs
- Teams to cook 4 ingredients from Gator Groceries pantry to use for their dish
- Teams will be scored on how well their dish tastes, the presentation, and how clean their cooking station is at the end of each round

We're excited to be partnering with SFSU Dietetic Program, Associated Students Food Pantry/Gator Groceries Program, and the Nutrition team at Health Promotion and Wellness to host this challenge!
 

Come visit the Food+Shelter+Success and Health Promotion & Wellness programs' offices and participate in a morning yoga workshop!

Bring your own mat or items and come participate in a yoga-inspired pilates session led by an instructor from Mashouf Wellness Center. This event will be limited on a first come, first served till we reach capacity in the Sun Room. Come learn how taking care of your mental and physical wellbeing is also a basic need.

Come visit the Basic Needs Advocacy Fair where you can learn about various Basic Needs and Student Government programs! 

You will be able to meet various AS programs and learn about the support they offer SFSU students. You can learn how to get involved in student government to advocate for student voices. 

Food+Shelter+Success will be there to lead a supply drive for clothing, food, and school supplies! If you donate supplies, you can participate at our table game to earn FSS swag prizes and enter our HHAW raffle to win various prizes!

Come join the FSS team along with Hood to Woods at the AS Farmer's Market! We will have a few tables set up where you can learn more about:

• SFSU's Basic Needs Program: Food+Shelter+Success 
  • Learn about our resources for students facing food, housing, and financial insecurity
• CalFresh and Market Match Programs
  • Learn about the CalFresh program and how it can be used at local farmer's markets to increase the amount of food you can buy
• Hood to Woods
  • Learn more about the Hood to Woods project and join San Francisco State University in a community-engaged research project to reclaim nature in the Bay Area.

Join our Basic Needs Case Competition

What is a Case Competition?

A Case Competition is similar to a Hack-a-thon where your group will be posed with a Basic Needs issue, prompt, or question where your team must create a proposal or program to address the issue. This program/proposal/project will then be presented to a panel of judges who will score the event based on a rubric provided to each team.

Top placing groups will receive various prizes, with the winning team potentially having their proposed solution adopted into a full program in the future!

How can I form a group and join?

You can sign up via the Qualtrics link above either as an individual or as an existing group. Each group will be 5 students so you can sign up as a full team of 5 or as an individual and be randomly placed. Sign-ups will be open until November 14 at 9 am!

Want to meet potential team members and learn more?

We will be hosting a social at the Food+Shelter+Success office from 11 am to 1 pm where you can meet other potential team members and learn more about the event!

What if I am already out-of-town, can I present virtually?

Yes you can! We know many students may leave for the Fall Break, so if you already are out of town, you can do your Case Presentation via Zoom.

We are celebrating the launch of our Sparkpoint SFSU center which will include a tabling fair to meet our campus and community partners that help with food and housing, and to sign up for an appointment with our financial coach! We will also be providing some free snack foods at the event so come by, see the space, and meet the team working to address basic needs issues at SFSU.

We will be giving away financial planners will be given out to students who register to meet with our financial coach at the event while supplies last!