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Food for Thought for Diversity Wellness

Food and nutrition is important to all people. Access to nutrition is especially important to marginalized groups. This project educates people how good food can be made available. This project will promote and help identify affordable, good tasting, nutrient-rich foods" to difference cultural groups. Taking into account: (1) embracing cultural traditions (2) learn from each other (3) combine with other healthy living ideas.

Project Impact(s): Chronic Illness, Diversity and Inclusion, Food, Health

This project is in Concept Phase.

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Diversity Council/Lotus Foundation

Contact: Al Lun ; Email: albert.lun@gmail.com ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Boys and Girls Club of Rochester ; Diversity Council ; Lotus Health Foundation ; OpenBeam ; Rochester Farmers Markets

Potential Collaborators: Channel One Regional Food Bank ; Community Food Response ; Engage Winona ; Healthy Food Alliance of SE MN ; IMAA ; Olmsted County Public Health Services ; People’s Food Co-op ; University of Minnesota Rochester ; Winona State Rochester

Related Projects

Community Health Assessment Process ; Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) ; Health Equity: Community Health Collaboration Portal ; Healthy Immigrant Families ; Healthy Living Rochester ; Improve health insurance coverage for minority groups in Southeast Minnesota ; Mayo Clinic Health Disparities Research

Impacts 

Major Impact: 

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Chronic Illness, Diversity and Inclusion, Food, Health

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Health & Wellness

Community Health Impacts:

Diabetes, Obesity

Type of Project

Planning, Programming  

 

 

Detailed Description

Food and nutrition is important to all people. Access to nutrition is especially important to marginalized groups. This project educates people how good food can be made available.

Food is the common denominator that binds various groups of people. Good food leads to good health ....

The following from: National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

"Many nutritional professionals believe that all Americans, regardless of income, have access to a nutritious diet of whole grains, lean meats, and fresh vegetables and fruit. In reality, food prices pose a significant barrier for many consumers who are trying to balance good nutrition with affordability. The Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), commonly cited as a model of a healthy low-cost diet, achieves cost goals by relaxing some nutrition constraints and by disregarding the usual eating habits of the American population. Diet optimization techniques, when sensitive to cost and social norms, can help identify affordable, good tasting, nutrient-rich foods that are part of the mainstream American diet."

 

This project will promote health and wellness programs such as: Club CHIP into diversity communities.

 

What is Club CHIP?

Chip is all about building a healthy lifestyle. This includes a lot of components including diet, exercise, and stress management, but Club CHIP aims to help sustain another important element: community.

A Community for Chippers

We found that one of the biggest highlights during the CHIP sessions was the sense of community-- it was place where people with the same interest and similar, at least relate-able, situations came together. Club CHIP is a monthly gathering where CHIP graduates have a chance to meet the participants from other sessions and share stories, opinions, recipes, and tips. It helps renew the excitement that is felt during the CHIP program itself.

 

 

Chip graduates from different sections had a chance to compare the experiences, joys and challenges alike, they encountered during their journeys to better living. Many participants "joked" that the best part was trying all the different dishes and exchanging recipes. And you know, that's another perfectly good reason to attend.

 

Strategy

Concept Phase  

Lotus Health Foundation and Diversity Council to kickoff the program to promote food for thought. 

Outreach to different cultural, faith-based groups. 

Introduce lifestyle medicine 

Recruit various cultural groups leaders

Using openBEAM's IT (cloud based) resources as a way to promote and engage different groups

Follow Diversity Council's collaboration framework

beta test tie-ins with Community Health Assessment Needs (CHNA) 

Plan Phase

Identify key cultural groups

 

 

 

 

 

Metrics
Unknown

 

 

Last modified by support on 2021/09/05
Created by support on 2017/09/07

 

 

 

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