Geography: Louisiana

Use of a new availability index to evaluate the effect of policy changes to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on the food environment in New Orleans

The WIC-AI is a simple tool useful in summarizing complex food store environment data and may be adapted for use in other states or a national level to inform food policy decisions and direction

A Healthy Plaquemines Now: Using the Local Culture as the Cornerstone to Build a Community Coalition

Crescent City WIC created this poster to highlight their local work incorporating community culture into their coalition’s health messaging. This poster was created during the CPHMC project and was presented […]

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 […]

Crescent City WIC “Right Stuff” Video

Crescent City WIC created this video during the CPHMC project and focuses on their local work on breastfeeding promotion. Crescent City focused on connecting the local culture into their health […]

Altarum Institute CPHMC Evaluation Report: Cohort #1

The Altarum Institute was NWA’s evaluation partner during the CPHMC project and created this evaluation report of Cohort #1 programs. Altarum Institute’s Center for Food and Nutrition was contracted to conduct […]

Crescent City WIC Judge Brown Video

Crescent City WIC created this video as part of their local work to promote and normalize breastfeeding in their community. Created during the CPHMC project, this video incorporates local cultural […]

Making Americans Healthy in Every Hometown

As part of the CPHMC project, NWA and their partners on this initiative convened for an annual Training and Technical Workshop. After his participation in the April 2017 meeting Jay […]