Trainings Related to Healthy Eating

Percentage of participants reporting plan to apply information learned in training

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Story Behind the Curve

There have been numerous public meetings, including the CHIP planning meetings, where community members and partners share their frustration and concerns with the social determinants of health covered by this priority and by asking “why?” multiple times to better understand the issue or concern. Many residents have shared difficulty with transportation, healthy eating, cost of food and housing, and a desire for more resources. Partners report a desire for better connection to the public and community members. Partners also shared barriers to providing information to everyone, such as the lack of a common resource space or meeting with other community health workers and resources. Local community health workers, along with partners pushed for a stronger connection with one another so that all participants are aware of the eligibility requirements and various services available across the county.

What Works

Promoting programs like Double Bucks, SNAP, and WIC
Promoting farmer’s markets and food pantries
Produce prescriptions or food as medicine programs
Promoting local community resources and resource lists like OC Connects and 211.
Providing information in multiple formats—online, phone, paper, etc. in languages of the community and with graphics if applicable to help with language and literacy barriers. Multiple formats also help with people who may have personal preference for one format over the other, or who have language, literacy, vision, hearing, or other concerns.
Connection with a wide variety of community partners who may be able to better reach varied populations due to relationships, language, culture, comfort, etc.
Working across community agencies and systems to reduce silos and confusion
Meeting the people where they are
Sharing information on social media, website, and at community events or through community displays or message boards
Sharing information with formal and informal community leaders
Having an actual person to assist with researching and obtaining services instead of an AI assistant or expecting people to use internet on their own.
Increasing awareness that local farmer’s markets do accept EBT/WIC/SNAP to some capacity and assisting those markets with the program/create an improved system.
Plan, produce, and promote the use of community gardens and/or mobile farmer’s markets.
Partnerships with committees/organizations, such as the Cooperative Extension office, to provide free information and classes related to cooking, budgeting, and other life skills. Many of these classes are tailored for those using benefits such as EBT/WIC/SNAP and are very realistic in how to meal plan on those budgets.
Increase and promote social supports between community members. One example would be to promote a connection between seniors and youth so that they can learn from one another while assisting them with basic life skills.
The CHW coalition has the ability to share these resources with their clients and connect them to appropriate organizations to assist them with their needs.
Plan and promote for more community involved activities, such as the free public book boxes, using these as a platform to include resources and nonperishable foods.
Physical signage works better at reaching people in many areas compared to online posts.
Promotion of “unity in the community” event
Modify and/or expand current services to better serve the community.

Action Plan

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