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 From Neighborhood to Nation

May 20, 2011 Portland, OR

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

NashvilleIn 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 toolkithttp://www.wafarmtoschool.org/




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




Farm Incubator Project

14 farmers from very diverse backgrounds

Mentoring and technical support

Contributing to increasing access to healthy foods in their community




Healthy Corner Stores 30 stores in urban and suburban communities Partnering with Community Based Organizations Bringing support to businesses including capital

www.healthyfoodshere.org




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 – [email protected]

Alisa Haushalter -

[email protected]

Erin MacDougall –

[email protected]

Rachael Banks – [email protected]

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