Kidsx - Edward Fu

KidsX Design-A-Thon

KidsX has partnered with the City of Glendale, CHLA, Microsoft, and verynice on a 3-day design-a-thon challenge to come up with innovative and creative approaches to addressing the issues surrounding food insecurity, which impacts more than 1.2M homes in LA County.

Meet The Team

Overview

Background

Food insecurity (temporary, situational or ongoing) is having a lack of consistent, reliable access to enough healthful foods to meet the needs of everyone in a household to support a healthy lifestyle

Goal of this Design-A-Thon

The goal is to come up with an innovative idea to assist the people who are currently having food insecurity
Within 3 days the team will try to resolve as many existing problem as possible
The idea will focus on improving the patient/family Journey

Problem & Impact

Statistics

~30% (1.2M homes) of families in LA county are food insecure 10% of U.S. families
All families who screened as food insecure are also in need of financial support to meet basic needs 30% needed support with child care supplies (diapers, clothing, etc.) 18% struggled to pay bills
Food insecurity affects feeding practices and styles that contribute to childhood obesity and diabetes

Pain points we are trying to resolve:

Stigma of visiting food pantry/bank in first place that prevents people from getting the help they need
Food pantry/bank hours only open during work hours which forces people to leave early from their job
People have to set time aside due to the long lines and wait time at the food pantries
Lack of car and transportation to get to and from food pantry
Not enough feedbacks from the users to make improvement once they leave the food pantry/bank

Impact Effort Matrix

Solution & Journey

Solution

A hyper-personalized SMS mobile platform that can help guide food insecure families through the process from picking up free/reduced groceries at convenient Amazon Hub locations to cooking personalized meals.

User Journey

Our solution addresses pain points for 3 parties: patients(people who are food insecurity), managers of solutions, and supply chain/distribution parties. So here’s the user journey.

Why Amazon?

Amazon already has an existing partnership with CHLA and there are over 45 Amazon Locker locations in LA, and 15 in downtown Glendale alone.
These lockers are safe and secure, and allow people to visit at their convenience.
This solution could be partnered with the City of Glendale’s food-mobile solution, since the food-mobile could bring edible food directly from restaurants to Amazon food lockers to be distributed to residents.
Ability to pick up the package at your own schedule.

Utilizing Amazon Locker will help resolve many of the pain points

Stigma of visiting food pantry/bank in first place that provents people from getting the help they need
Food pantry/bank hours only open during work hours which forces people to leave early from their job

People have to set time aside due to the long lines and wait time at food pantries
Lack of car and transportation to get to and from food pantry