Community Gardens

Promoting Community Gardening to Low-Income Urban Participants in the Women, Infants, and Children Programme (WIC) in New Mexico

This study investigated the effectiveness of methods to promote the WIC community garden project in Albuquerque, New Mexico. researchers found that fewer ; than 30% of clients surveyed had heard of the project; that caseload was unrelated to promotion methods; and that clients participating in the project reported consuming more vegetables.

Tri-County WIC Rx Pad

Tri-County created this non-pharmaceutical prescription pad to highlight their local work on community clinical linkages and WIC referrals as part of the CPHMC project. Tri-County Health Department (TCHD) serves 3 […]

Tri-County Healthy Food Pantry Toolkit

Tri-County created this toolkit to highlight their local work on healthy food access and food pantries as part of the CPHMC project. Information in this toolkit includes a food pantry […]

Healthy Food Bank Toolkit (Poster)

Tri-County Health Dept. created this poster to present at NWA’s Annual Conference in April 2017. This poster highlighted their local work creating a healthy food toolkit to provide guidance on increasing […]

Innovative Community Partnerships for Chronic Disease Prevention: WIC & Head Start

San Juan Basin Public Health (SJBPH) presented this poster at the NWA Annual Conference in April 2017 as part of the CPHMC project. This project highlighted their local work promoting […]

A Sweet Collaboration: Enhancing Breastfeeding and Increasing Access to Healthy Foods Through Community Partnerships in Tattnall County, GA

Southeast Health District presented this poster highlighting their local work on breastfeeding and healthy food access. This poster was presented at NWA’s Annual Conference in April 2017 and was created […]

Fresh and Healthy Foods Encouraged by the Medical Community are now Affordable in Bonner County, Idaho

Panhandle Health District created this poster to highlight their local work on healthy food access as part of the CPHMC project. This poster was presented at NWA’s Annual Conference in […]

Optimizing Nutrition Education in WIC: Findings From Focus Groups With Arizona Clients and Staff

Findings from 10 focus groups with 25 WIC staff and 29 clients suggested that existing materials were time-consuming and unresponsive to client needs, and additional resources were needed to engage children while parents were in session; new delivery formats for nutrition education, including videos and interactive demonstrations focused on child-friendly preparations of WIC foods, were preferred.