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Geography: Louisiana


Louisiana WIC Vendor Guide

A Louisiana Office of Public Health WIC publication that outlines policies and procedures for selling WIC approved foods to participants in Louisiana.


Crescent City & DHPE #Choose2BHealthy Videos

In celebration of the 2017 National Farmers Market Week, DHPE produced three #Choose2BHealthy public service announcements (PSAs) about the WIC’s Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program. To produce these videos, DHPE worked […]


Crescent City Food Pantry Resource Guide

Crescent City created this guide to promote their coalition’s local work with food pantries during the CPHMC project. Healthy Plaquemines Now looked to build a community coalition to increase availability, […]


From Nutrition to Public Policy: Improving Healthy Food Access by Enhancing Farm-to-Table Legislation in Louisiana

This project demonstrates how research and sharing of best practices are essential steps to the policymaking process and how such work can unite the health and agriculture communities to foster improvements in access to healthy food. The NPT was not involved in the drafting of specific legislation; however, communications with key stakeholders and policymakers inspired the political champion to prioritize farm-to-table policies during the legislative session. The NPT encourages others to disseminate findings from policy analyses to policymakers.


Crescent City WIC “Hands Up” Video

Crescent City WIC created this video during the CPHMC project to highlight their local work on breastfeeding. Crescent City focused on incorporating cultural context into their healthy food messaging. Crescent […]