Rural Northern Border Region Outreach Program - Rural Northern Border Region Outreach Program • Project Title ACHS Food as Medicine Portable Teaching Kitchen (FMPTK) and TRIP Marketplace for transportation (TRIP – MFT) • Project Goal • FMPTK – habituate food as medicine into the activities of daily cooking and eating to improve individual health and community population wellness • TRIP – MFT – produce a hyper-local transportation solution tailored to the unique needs of rural communities leveraging trust and IS/IT logistic applications. • Project Objectives • FMPTK • Participants will develop the habit of Food as Medicine in their menu planning, cooking routines, and consumption of healthy foods. OG1 • The metrics for Obesity, Diabetes, and Hypertension show a correlation of improvement with participation in ACHS Food as Medicine Portable Teaching Kitchen (FMPTK) experiences. OG2 • ACHS Food as Medicine Portable Teaching Kitchen (FMPTK) secures private/ public sustainability funding for two FTE CHW post project period. OG3 • The ACHS Food as Medicine Portable Teaching Kitchen (FMPTK) “meta-story” enables replication for other uniquely rural areas. This provides an ROI for this funding in multiples of the investment. OG4 • TRIP – MFT • The TRIP Marketplace for transportation system will be the ease of use chose for drivers and riders for eliminating transportation barriers amongst friends, families, and neighbors. OG1 • The TRIP Marketplace for transportation system will have reached a market penetration to ensure stability and sustainability based on the diffusion of innovation curve. OG2 • Drivers and Riders will rate the TRIP Marketplace for transportation system on with a promoter rating of 9 and 10 who are loyal enthusiasts who will most likely to others and help attract new drivers and riders. Scores of 7 and 8 are passive and satisfied. Great scores are 30-70 and Excellent is 70-100 . OG3 • The TRIP Marketplace for transportation “meta-story” enables replication for other uniquely rural areas. This provides an ROI for this funding in multiples of the investment. OG4 Target Population The target population to be served is in a 100% rural area designated as medically underserved area with a medically underserved population experiencing a dearth of providers as demonstrated through the medical, mental, and dental shortage area designations as documented in the narrative. Focus Area • The focus is on food as medicine and transportation that cuts across all residents at various times and levels of access. The resolution of which is systemic with significant clinical and financial returns on investing in solutions for this two upstream from health activities of daily living, vital conditions of health in the area of social determinants of health. Project Activities Brief description of the proposed activities and/or services Activities are highly proximal to those in need of healthy foods and transportation. The activities are experiential (food) and/ or system development (transportation) executed by minimal essential team of 2 FTE CHW and 0.1FTE of a PI/PD. Leveraging existing highly mature (since 1997) North Country Health Consortium expedites action along Tuckman’s evolution of collaborative teams to “performing. Activities are in three stages, 1) ACHS – Service Area, 2) expansion through Coös County, 3) leveraging ‘meta-story” for replication and financial sustainably as a business per forma and ROI are part of the meta-story. Expected Outcomes High habituation of food as medicine through the ACHS Food as Medicine Portable Teaching Kitchen (FMPTK) resulting in optimal individual health and community public wellness, especially in chronic diseases including and not limited to obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Resolution of the unique rural transportation barriers by leveraging hyper-local communities of trust with fewer (1-2) degrees of relational separation and IS/IT application of ride sharing to resolve logistics of drivers and riders finding each other.
