Developing a Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS) to Improve Client Access to Healthy Foods & Enhance Emergency Preparedness

Food pantries face many challenges, including recruitment and training of staff/volunteers, communications with staff/volunteers and clients, providing client choice, and emergency preparedness. The investigators will develop, implement, and evaluate the Support Application for Food Pantries (SAFPAS), a mobile application to address these concerns under normal and emergency operations, and assess its impact on 20 Baltimore food pantries, and on the healthiness of foods received by 360 food pantry clients using a randomized controlled trial design. If successful, the tested and refined app will support local food assistance programs throughout the United States.

NCT Number	NCT05880004
Lead Sponsor	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Collaborators: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Oakland University
Conditions	Improving Healthy Food Access in Food Insecurity Populations in Normal and Emergency Situations
Enrollment	537 participants
Start Date	2023-06-14
Primary Completion	2026-11-30 (estimated)
Study Completion	2026-11-30 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2025-12-17