The "Story Behind the Curve" helps us understand the causes and forces at that work that explain the data behind food insecurity and the resources the Foothills Health District plans to commit to address the health issue.

 What's Helping What We Do? These are the positive forces at work that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• Advertisting BASICS Food Pantry 
• Volunterring time packing and distrubuting food boxes 2 days a month

 What's Hurting What We Do? These are the negative forces at work that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• Transportation to appointments 
• Transportation to BASICS

2022 Progress Update:

• The program is set to begin in 2023. There is no data for the number of food boxes disrubted at this time. 

The following actions have been identified by our agency as ideas for what can work for this performance measure to make a difference on Food Insecurity.

Actions and Approaches Identified by Our Agency These are actions and approaches that we think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Food panrty inside health department  
• Canned food drives
• Grocery gift card to patients 

No-cost and Low-cost Ideas Identified by Our Agency These are no-cost and low-cost actions and approaches that we think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Advertisting online of program 
• Advertising at Farmers Market 

What our communities served/customers think would work to do better These are actions and approaches that our communities served/customers think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Having access to healhier food options 
• Leanring how to eat healthier on a budget 

List of Questions/Research Agenda These are questions to follow-up on for this performance measure. If you still need more information about what works to do better, make these questions part of your information & research agenda.

• Where did they learn or hear about BASICS