Thursday, April 17, 2025
4/17/2025
Closing the Gap with SDOH - Food & Nutrition - Team will: 1) Convene and Coordinate a Leadership Team Consisting of Multisectoral Partners; and 2) Create a SDOH Accelerator Plan, including the following components: • Background (Community Background, Community Health Issues, and Selected Populations) • Partnerships (Leadership Team, Multisectoral Partners, Shared Mission and Goal Statement) • Programs and Resources for SDOH (Existing Resources and Programs) • Approach (SDOH Priority Areas – Food and Nutrition Security to increase durable access to quality fruits and vegetables through retail outlets, farmer’s markets, and food distribution networks; increasing acceptance of food assistance and nutrition incentive vouchers; and implementing healthy food service guidelines. Community-Clinical linkages for fruit and vegetable programs; clinical links to nutrition assistance programs like SNAP and WIC. Social Connectedness by promoting participation in, and purchasing from, urban farms/farming, farmers markets, and other programs around healthy food that supports safe and healthy activity. Outcome Objectives; Activities; Anticipated Reach of the Activities; Anticipated policy, systems, environmental, programmatic and infrastructure outcomes) • Evaluation Plan (purpose, goals, evaluation questions, data collection methods, and findings)(strategies and outcome measures, focusing on social and public health impact on population) • Data Integration (existing data sources; process for monitoring and integrating data to create comprehensive system for tracking population resource utilization) • Responsible Party (how each partner will participate in planning, implementation, and reporting) • Implementation Plan (implementation budget for strategies and activities, work plan with timeline to compete strategies and activities) • Sustainability/Funding Strategy (strategies to expand, diversify, and sustain implementation efforts, including funding) • Success Story This will be done in collaboration with CDC funded chronic disease programs (CDC 1817) and CDC funded non-chronic disease program (CARS), together with other non-CDC funded programs. Also will include surveying/conducting focus groups of affected communities.
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