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WEBINAR-Engaging Community Partners to Support Healthy Food Retail

Overview

Over the past several years, healthy food retail has become an effective strategy for improving the economic health and well-being of communities. Community leaders, businesses, nonprofits, and local government are recognizing the key to a successful operation often hinges on community involvement and participation. The integration of community in planning and development is essential to successfully increase access to healthy foods, create jobs, and provide communities with new or improved place-based spaces that encourage neighborhood revitalization.
 
This webinar discusses how healthy food retail developers are engaging community stakeholders to ensure local residents have a stake in, benefit from, and have greater access to healthy foods. Speakers in this webinar discuss how equitable development is a sustainable growth model and strategy to ensure residents benefit from having additional retail in their neighborhoods.
 
Webinar speakers include:
 
--Mary Lee, Deputy Director, PolicyLink (Moderator)
 
--Donna Leuchten, Director of Sustainable Food Systems, Uplift Solutions
 
--Esther Park, Community Outreach Coordinator, Los Angeles Food Policy Council
 
--Mariela Cedeño, Director, Social Enterprise and Microfinance, Mandela Marketplace

Food Oasis Portfolio

Overview

The Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Program at the Washington State Department of Health compiled a list of existing online resources to help communities improve access to healthy foods in all the places where people are born, live, learn, work, and play. These resources include: 
• Tools for assessing food environments.
• Strategies for building a food oasis in your community, schools, hospital,worksite, childcare, retailer.
• Funding opportunities.
• Research and reports on the importance of access to healthy foods.
 
 

Bringing Community Voices to the Table

Overview

 This report highlights key recommendations for how communities can work together to make sure that everyone, regardless of income or race, has access to healthy food, and  discusses the unequal access to healthy foods that exists in communities of color and for low-income communities in San José.Food access is important to the health and well-being of all of our families.

Healthy Food, Healthy Economies

Overview

The Food and Agriculture Policy Collaborative has identified four priorities for Farm Bill policies that would support healthy,
and economically sustainable food system that supports both consumers and producers.

Economic Analysis of Detroit's Food System

Overview

EConsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI) has teamed up with the Detroit Food and Fitness Collaborative (DFFC) and Urbane Development, LLC, to release an economic analysis of the city of Detriot’s food system. The study sought to assess the current state of Detroit’s food economy, highlight the opportunities and challenges shareholders face with the city’s food sector and develop a strategic approach to cultivating a food system for all residents.

Fresh Food for All: Improving Access to Fresh Food in Alabama

Overview

Understanding the current state of the Alabama food system is a necessary step in ECN’s work. A key aspect of that food system is consumer access to food. In the summer of 2013, ECN staff and MIT Wealth Creation Clinic members began to discuss working together to create a document that would serve as a rallying point for Alabama stakeholders interested in impact investing in fresh food retail as a possible means to improve health outcomes for the state’s low-income, rural populations. 

WEBINAR-Food Policy 101: Expanding Healthy Food Access

Overview

In honor of Food Day 2013, the Healthy Food Access Portal held a food policy 101 webinar which brought together community leaders and activists from throughout the country to share strategies for improving access to healthy foods. Webinar speakers discussed the best way to harness the power of community to create policy change at the local, state, and federal levels. The webinar addressed a range of topics including why healthy food access is important, the role that food policy councils, community leaders, and local government can play in making real policy change, and how to engage community to improve food access and quality.

Moving From Policy to Implementation: A Methodology and Lessons Learned to Determine Eligibility for Healthy Food Financing Projects

Overview

This article outlines a methodology to establish eligibility for healthy food financing programs by describing the work of The Food Trust to coadminister programs in 3 distinct regions. To determine program eligibility, qualitative assessments of community fit are needed and national data sources must be locally verified. Our findings have broad implications for programs that assess need to allocate limited public/private financing resources.

Rural Childhood Obesity Prevention Toolkit

Overview

Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, developed the Rural Childhood Obesity Prevention Toolkit to help local and state leaders advance innovative, evidence-informed strategies for improving health in rural towns, counties, tribal lands, and schools.

WEBINAR- Voices for Healthy Kids Initiative

Overview

Advocacy efforts to improve access to healthy food at the local, state, and federal level have led to the creation of financing programs to support healthy food retail in underserved communities nationwide.

One key effort, Voices for Healthy Kids Initiative, led by the American Heart Association and The Food Trust, is advocating for state-wide policies to promote healthy food financing and corner store programs in key states across the country. This webinar will provide an overview of the Voices for Healthy Kids Initiative and discuss how advocates and community leaders can tap into resources to support state-level healthy food access efforts. Experts will discuss key successes from the field and share best practices.

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