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STORIES FROM THE FIELD
Universal Screening and Food Bank Collaboration to Improve Health Outcomes
2017- PrimaryOne (Ohio) Health screens for food insecurity, and partners with local food banks to provide produce prescriptions for those experiencing chronic disease, and create produce distribution days at the health center. To view the file, scroll through the...
Integrative Medicine Promotes Wellness Through Gardens, Farmacy and Play
2017- Petaluma Health Center (California) creates a community garden, food farmacy, and hosts cooking demonstrations to help meet food security needs in their community, a known food desert. To view the file, scroll through the below viewer or click the download icon...
Addressing Diverse Patient Groups through Center Markets, Community Gardens, and More
2017- OLE Health (California) screens patients for food insecurity and hosts free produce markets, which serve as screening and outreach events. A monthly food resource calendar helps to connect patients with available resources around the community. OLE Health also...
Native and Community Gardens, Read-It-And-Eat, Food Backpacks, Kids Cafe, Wellness Warriors & More
2017- Native Health (Arizona) partnered with a local food bank to offer a summer meals program. Weekly read-it-and eat in partnership with the Phoenix public library -a wellness warriors program with children who learn healthy lifestyle lessons to educate on nutrition...
The Farmacy Food Prescription Program
2017 - Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation (Kentucky) leads a food prescription program (the farmacy program) that offers disease specific food vouchers for the local farmers market while helping to sustain area farmers and support community development in rural...
Circle of Care Joins Food, Families, Health
2017 - La Maestra Community Health Centers (LMCHC) (California) offers garden spots, fresh food, a food pantry, holiday meals and resources for immigrants, refugees, homeless and other urban underserved in San Diego. The local food pantry provides special services...
Access, Nutrition, Education and Partnership
2017- Erie Family Health Center (EFHC) ( Illinois) works to be strengthen their school-based health centers programs with starting a community garden in a district designated as a food desert. The garden is part of the school health program, introducing children to...
Food for Health: Inpatient, Outpatient, Mobile and Festive
2017- Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center (Connecticut) has several wellness food initiatives where patients learn about nutrition and food preparation. Initiatives include kitchen-based classes, safety and nutrition, and a healthy snacks program for children. The center...
Food 4 Health: Nutrition Assistance is Preventive Health Care
2017- Community Health Service Agency, Inc. (Texas) partners regionally with the North Texas Food Bank to couple food distribution with continuity of health care, addressing health outcomes as well as food quality and access. Outreach and enrollment workers at health...
Community Health Workers, Groceries, Gardens and Markets
2017- Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (Massachusetts) partners with several local social services to comprehensively fight hunger. Food initiatives include a teaching kitchen with classes in cooking and nutrition, a local grocery store partnership for food...
Founded on Food Access with Rooftop Gardens, Gleanings, Pantries and a Farm
2017 - Bread of the City (BFC) (Washington, DC) promotes economic and racial justice by providing services that give individuals and families power over their choices. Addressing food insecurity with a pantry that is designed to assist families in bridging the gap...
Multnomah County’s Food Focused Partnership with Zenger Farm
2017- Multnomah County’s Primary Care Clinics (Oregon) partnered with Zenger Farm to implement a clinic-hosted CSA program to deliver a weekly box of Zenger Farm vegetables for 23 weeks. Over the course of the program, 25 low-income patient families received access to...
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