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Congressman McGovern worked with the White House to secure support for a conference on Food, Nutrition and Health.

Now, The Biden-Harris Administration wants to hear your ideas and experiences to help inform a national strategy that will be announced at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in September 2022.

Below are three ways you can share your ideas and stories. The input the administration receives from each of these avenues will directly inform the national strategy to be released at the Conference:

Regional Listening Sessions

Thank you to all who have helped us spread the word on the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Regional Listening Sessions!

Due to tremendous interest, the first four listening sessions have reached their capacity. The White House will be hosting a fifth listening session for regional, state, and local organizations across the country on June 15 from 3-5pm ET. Due to limited capacity, they kindly request that each organization limit their participation to one representative so we can hear from as many organizations and individuals with lived experience with hunger and diet-related diseases as possible. Here are the details:

All regions: June 15, 2022, 3pm-5pm EDT/2-4pm CDT/1-3pm MDT/12-2pm PDT. Register here (select June 15 in dropdown).

Spanish-only (all regions): June 13, 2022, 1pm-3pm EDT. Register here (select June 13 in dropdown)

Partner-Led Convenings

The Biden-Harris Administration has also announced another opportunity for you to share valuable input in advance of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, creating a toolkit to help you lead conversations with your community, other organizations, and individuals about ending hunger, improving nutrition, and increasing physical activity—all while reducing disparities. They encourage you to submit the collective input from your discussion by July 15, 2022 to be sure that your ideas are considered. You can download the toolkit here.

To help spread the word and connect people to partner-led convenings, they will post information that you share so that others can join. To get your convening posted to website, please follow these instructions exactly:

1. Send an email to WHHungerHealth@hhs.gov with the subject title: Partner-led Convening Information
2. In your email, provide the following information in the following format:
• Name of Organization(s):
• Location:
• Date & Time:
• Hyperlink (please provide a URL for more information about the convening, including registration):

Share Your Ideas and Stories

An additional opportunity to share ideas and experiences to inform the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health is now available on the Conference website. Individuals who have experienced hunger and/or heart disease, hypertension or other diet-related diseases and organizations who work on these issues can share their ideas and stories on the Conference website here.

Ideas and experiences shared here will help inform a national strategy that will be announced at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in September 2022. The strategy will encourage the public and private sectors to work together to transform the food and physical activity environments in the United States. Please feel free to share this website with your networks and invite others to submit their ideas and experiences.