Nutrition Objective I
Increase Access to Health Promoting Foods
Featured Programs & Activities

Previously Featured

Priority Recommendation A
Assure that communities provide access to healthy foods and beverages

• Mount Vernon: Expanding Access to Healthy Local Foods
  Audience:Community residents
  Scope: Mount Vernon
  Featured: Summer 2009
• Farmers Market Wireless Technology Mini-grants Project
  Audience:Farmers Market Vendors and Customers, Basic Food recipients
  Scope: Statewide
  Featured: Summer 2009
• Garden Raised Bounty
  Audience:Food insecure individuals and families
  Scope: Olympia, Thurston County, Mason County
  Featured: Winter 2009
• Promoting Access to Healthy Foods in Rainier Valley
  Audience: Community residents
  Scope: Rainier Valley, Seattle
  Featured: Winter 2009
• Eat Local Thanksgiving Increases Awareness of Local Food Policy
  Audience: Residents, organizations, businesses, policy makers
  Scope: Puget Sound Area
  Featured: Winter 2008
  
• King County Food & Fitness Initiative
  Audience: Youth & families
  SCOPE: King County, Delridge Neighborhood, White Center
  Featured: Autumn 2007
• Creating Opportunities for Youth Involvement: Moses Lake Youth Wellness Team
  Audience:Youth involved in the Columbia Basin Job Corps
  SCOPE: Moses Lake
  Featured: Spring 2006
• Expanding Access to Farmers’ Markets
  Audience: Community residents, low income families and individuals
  Scope: Mount Vernon
  Featured: Spring 2006

Priority Recommendation B
Assure that worksites, including healthcare services and schools, provide healthful foods and beverages

• Energizing Meetings at the Washington State Department of Health
  Audience: Employees, meeting attendees
  Scope: WA Dept. of Health and other state agencies
  Featured: Winter 2008
• Providing Healthier Vending Options in Clark County
  Audience: Community members, students, employees
  Scope: Vancouver, Clark County
  Featured: Spring 2007
• Skagit County “Farm to Healthcare” Pilot Project
  Audience: Hospitals, retirement communities, farming community
  Scope: Skagit County
  Featured: Spring 2007
• Community Connections in Hospital Food Service: Farm-to-Table
  Audience:Hospital employees, patients and visitors
  Scope: Skagit Valley Hospital
  Featured: Summer 2006
• Northwest Healthy Foods Expo
  Audience:School food service directors, human resource professionals, worksite wellness coordinators, and other people responsible for institutional food purchasing
  Scope: Washington State
  Featured: Winter 2006

Priority Recommendation C
Assure that schools provide healthy foods and beverages

• Washington State Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program
  Audience: Students, local farms
  Scope: State-wide
  Updated: Winter 2009
• "Local Farms - Healthy Kids Act" Passed by Washington State Legislature
  Audience: Children, Low-income adults, local farms
  Scope: State-wide
  Updated: Spring 2008
• Apple Corps: Fostering Healthy School Environments
  Audience: Low-income youth & families
  Scope: Seattle, King County
  Featured: Winter 2008
• Healthy Student Store Marketing Challenge
  Audience: High school students
  Scope: Clark County
  Featured: Autumn 2007
• Assessing Availability of Competitive Foods in Pierce County Secondary Schools
  Audience:Middle, junior high, and high school students
  Scope:Public schools in Pierce County
  Featured: Autumn 2006
• Lincoln Elementary Healthy School Pilot
  Audience: K-6 students
  Scope: Lincoln Elementary, Mount Vernon
  Featured: Spring 2006