Playbook for Building Healthier Food Systems

Hello Farm and Food community,

 

I'm thrilled to share an exciting new resource. Health Care Without harm has just released our new Healthy Food Playbook, which offers inspiration and tools to address food- and diet-related community health needs throughout the community health engagement process. Check it out and learn more below!

Stay tuned for more information about local and online events to help you make the most of it! Let me know if you have any questions.

Best wishes,

Lindsey Scalera | Sustainable Food Program Director

Sustainable Food, Healthy Communities Program  | Ecology Center

Michigan Regional Organizer | Health Care Without Harm

Ambassador  |  Michigan Farm to Institution Network & Cultivate Michigan

339 E. Liberty St., Suite 300 | Ann Arbor, MI 48104

O: 734-369-9273  | C: 734-646-2428  |  lindsey@ecocenter.org

Healthy people and a healthy planet starts with YOU: www.ecocenter.org/give 

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Hospital-community collaborations tackle food insecurity and food-related disease while promoting healthy food systems.

According to Feeding America, 41 million people in the United States struggle with food insecurity, including 13 million children and 9.8 million senior citizens, resulting in widespread effects on physical and mental health.

In Michigan and across the country, hospitals are recognizing the vital link between healthy food access and population health outcomes and are putting their community benefit resources to work on solutions. Hospitals have been working within their communities to implement innovative, solutions-oriented programming such as:

• Helping to establish fruit & vegetable prescription programs

• Partnering with food banks and food pantries

• Supporting farmers markets, mobile markets, CSAs

• Cultivating community gardens and farms

• Growing farm to school and farm to hospital programs

• And more!

Healthy Food Playbook

Created with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Care Without Harm's "Delivering community benefit: Healthy food playbook" supports hospital community benefit professionals and community partners in developing initiatives to promote healthy food access and healthy, local and sustainable food systems.

The playbook offers inspiration and tools to address food- and diet-related community health needs throughout the community health engagement process.

Explore the new playbook!

MIFARMTOSCHOOL is a listserv that links farm-to-school stakeholders and practitioners in Michigan, from school food service directors and school administrators to growers and distributors. Content posted to MIFARMTOSCHOOL does not necessarily reflect the views of Michigan State University or the Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems.