Healthy Corner Stores: Innovative Policy Change for Healthier Communities: Food Policy as Prevention: Public Health's Emerging Role for Healthier Communities - PowerPoint Presentation

Food Policy as Prevention: Public Health’s Emerging Role for Healthier Communities Sara Padilla , Community Food Security Coalition Alisa Haushalter , Nashville Erin MacDougall , Seattle & King County Rachael Banks , Portland & Multnomah County

Overview
CDC funding for Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW)
Identifying solutions through Healthy Eating policy and systems changes
Focus on food systems, including farmers markets, food policy council, farm to school, healthy retail and healthy food purchasing

Providing National Technical Assistance
CFSC was one of ten national organizations selected to provide TA. Partners include:
Farmers Market Coalition
National Farm to School Network
National Good Food Network
Public Health Law & Policy
The Food Trust
Urbane Development

Session Format
Overview of each site
Food systems project highlights
Key roles as public health
Challenges and successes
Lessons learned
Q & A

Nashville:
Metropolitan Government
Board of Health
560,000 population
Southeast
Urban and rural
Nashville In Search of the Emerald City: A journey on the yellow brick road

Nashville’s Community Action Plan:
Collaborative
Reflective
Internal/external
Idealistic/pragmatic
Tree tops/grass roots

Tree Tops:
Mayor’s Office
Metro Departments
Leadership Team
Policy Director

Grass Roots:
Neighborhoods
Schools
Worksites
Places of Worship

Initiatives:
Food Policy Council
Community/School Gardens
Corner Store Initiative
Urban Agriculture HIA

Lessons Learned:
Journey
Simplicity/complexity
Partnership
Mission/vision focus

Multnomah County Health Department (MCHD) Food Policy Efforts
Supporting local food business
Promoting local and healthy food products
Creating more opportunities for urban food agriculture
Facilitating equitable community participation in decision-making

Public Health’s Emerging Role for Healthier Communities “ It is unreasonable to expect people to change their behavior easily when so many forces in the social, cultural, and physical environment conspire against such change.” - Institute of Medicine

Current Initiatives Community Settings : -Schools -Senior centers -Worksites -Parks & recreation facilities -Faith-based settings -Health care systems -Retail environments Strategies: -Farm to institution partnerships -Facility improvements -Nutrition standards -Product placement & marketing -EBT/WIC access

Nutrition Policies in Community Settings
Through CPPW, MCHD is funding School Districts to:
increase the procurement of local food
implement cafeteria reforms
implement campaigns that feature local, healthy food
MHCD is funding Ecotrust to provide technical assistance and connect school districts to local farmers through its FoodHub

Faith-based Settings
Changes impacting 100,000 people
healthy food policies and practices
kitchen modifications: removing deep fryers
raised bed garden in a former parking lot,
buying club by pooling resources to get food directly from local farmers

Healthy Retail Initiative
Promoting voluntary strategies by retailers to increase healthy food options in underserved areas
Community assessments
Mini-grant program
Branding campaign
Alternative sourcing strategies
Healthy Options Vendor Challenge
What are our next steps?

Public health and food policy efforts in Seattle & King County, Washington
Farm to School
Cooperative Purchasing
Urban Farming
Healthy Corner Stores
EBT and WIC at Farmers Markets

Seattle & King County Farm to School
Kent School District – direct purchasing
Farm to School toolkit
http://www.wafarmtoschool.org/

Seattle & King County Farm to Table Project Advancing Cooperative Food Purchasing
Goals:
Increase fruit and vegetable consumption by low income kids and seniors,
Strengthen local food system,
create relationships between providers to promote cooperative purchasing
Partners: City of Seattle, WA State Department of Agriculture, and Puget Sound Food Network
Sixteen programs serving seniors and children in childcare linked to local food producers

Seattle & King County Farm Incubator Project
14 farmers from very diverse backgrounds
Mentoring and technical support
Contributing to increasing access to healthy foods in their community

Seattle & King County Healthy Corner Stores
30 stores in urban and suburban communities
Partnering with Community Based Organizations
Bringing support to businesses including capital
www.healthyfoodshere.org

Seattle & King County EBT and WIC at Farmers Markets
Increasing access to healthy foods through farmers markets
Marketing, training, and technical assistance support to markets
Coordination across markets

Summary of Lessons learned
Identifying and testing impactful interventions for policy and systems change
Role of public health; partnering for other aspects
Evaluating and adjusting to focus our impact

Resources
CFSC – foodsecurity.org
USDA Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative - www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/knowyourfarmer
National Farm to School Network – www.farmtoschool.org
National Healthy Corner Store Network – www.healthycornerstores.org/
National Good Food Network - www.ngfn.org/

THANK YOU!
Our contact information:
Sara Padilla – sara@foodsecurity.org
Alisa Haushalter - Alisa.Haushalter@nashville.gov
Erin MacDougall – erin.macdougall@kingcounty.gov
Rachael Banks – rachael.m.banks@multco.us

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