Inter-Faith Ministries

Inter-Faith Ministries facilitates interreligious dialogue and provides social services in Wichita, Kansas. Inter-Faith Ministries has over 125 years of experience in bringing diverse faith-based congregations together in a unified effort to serve the community.

Increasing Hunger Awareness

...  we are all just one crisis away from losing everything.

Inter-Faith Ministries has been serving the poor in Wichita for 125 years.

Inter-Faith Ministries provides a variety of critical services to the Wichita community with two homeless shelters and 104 low-cost apartments with case manager support; addresses issues of food insecurity and provides emergency food assistance; collects gently used coats and food for those in need during the holiday season.

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THE IMPACT OF FOOD INSECURITY AND HUNGER

Access to enough and the right kinds of food is a basic human need and a prerequisite for an active, healthy life. Yet, in more than one of every seven households, family members struggle to satisfy this basic need.

Adults who experience food insecurity report higher rates of anxiety and depression, and poorer overall health status. Among seniors, food insecurity is associated with poorer nutritional status and poorer overall health. Ironically, food insecurity is also associated with obesity, as families face difficult tradeoffs between the calorieladen foods that are most affordable and healthier food choices.

The experience of food insecurity during childhood sets children on a path of poor performance and failure from which many never fully recover. Children age 0 to 3 are more likely to have iron-deficiency anemia, are more susceptible to infection, and are more likely to have a history of hospitalization. Children enter kindergarten with lower math scores, and learn less over the course of their first year in school. By the third grade, they have been shown to have lower reading and math scores than their peers who had not been food insecure.

Food-insecure children have an increased prevalence of behavioral problems , are seven times more likely to be classified as clinically dysfunctional, and twelve times more likely to steal. Food-insecure teenagers are twice as likely to have been suspended from school.

The health consequences of food insecurity and hunger contribute directly to escalating health care costs. While the linkages between food insecurity and its
consequences are not always obvious, they are real and significant.

For the complete report see Food Insecurity in KS | Food Insecurity Task Force Report (Feb. 2011) under Website Links and Resources at the IFM’s Newsroom on this site.

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