Older adults can experience nutrition deficiency and body composition atrophy as they age, which often occurs as a result of lacking opportunities for physical activity as well as overall knowledge around nutritional balance and using food as medicine. The Holland...
A 2022 Health Fund grant supported MAISD to establish Communities of Practice, fostering relationships among Muskegon County school districts. Creating Healthy Schools will support the continued development of the “Harvest of the Month” program focused on locally...
CAH has identified partnerships with healthcare organizations as a priority focus to better serve their clients and the community with an emphasis on two core strategies: 1. Improving referral pathways from healthcare providers to CAH services; and 2. Tailoring...
This is a comprehensive project addressing food insecurity, nutrition, and school wellness in four rural counties in Michigan. The project will implement the Whole School, Whole Community and Whole Child Model, implement 10 Cents a Meal across four counties, and...
This project aims to expand programming by addressing the lack of access to fresh produce, healthy food, and nutrition education. DBG will teach youth how to grow and process produce, identify their own nutritional needs, and explore Detroit’s food systems as an...
The ReGrow program will address food insecurity by leveraging rescued surplus ingredients and fresh produce from a local nonprofit farm to create healthy meals for hungry families, constructed by teens and adults learning culinary job skills and distributed through...
This project is the expansion of a pilot program in Detroit and supports additional Michigan parents with lived experience of hunger to be advocates for improved food access and food assistance in their communities through policy engagement, program change, and...
The Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program at MSU partners with pediatric clinics, OBGYN clinics, and farmers’ markets to distribute fruit and vegetable prescriptions. This project will address the lack of information regarding utilization and effectiveness of the...
This proposal is the second phase of a 2021 CHI grant to build upon this existing work among stakeholders to now focus on institutionalizing capacity building and training to increase procurement of local food in two school districts: Copper Country Intermediate...
