The city of Ames housing division will host “One Voice, One Community,” a forum to bring awareness and action for hunger.

The topic of the forum will be “Fighting Hidden Hunger” in Story County and will host representatives from Mid-Iowa Community Action Agency, Emergency Residence Project, Assault Care Center Extending Shelter and Support, and Youth and Shelter Services.

The forum will feature several guest speakers including Jordan Vernoy, state director of the Iowa Food Bank Association; Jean Kresse, president and CEO of United Way of Story County; and Pam Stangeland, principal of Kate Mitchell Elementary School.

It will kick off National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week, a national initiative aimed to raise awareness about poverty in the U.S. Student and municipal organizations across the country are hosting events to participate in the week-long event from

Nov. 12 to 20.

The One Voice, One Community forum will be held in the Commons Hall of Bethesda Lutheran Church on 1517 Northwestern Ave. from 6 to

8 p.m. Monday.

The forum is a joint effort of Food at First, Good Neighbor, St. Thomas Aquinas Church/Home for Awhile, the Salvation Army and the Story County Hunger Collaboration.

The forum is open to ISU

students, faculty, staff and

members of the Ames community.

Organizations at Iowa State also will be hosting awareness events such as the Cypocalypse, an ongoing food drive through the Government of the Student Body. The 12-Hour Famine also will take place from 1 to 7 p.m. Saturday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.