Creating a Path to
Better Nutrition
REACH NUTRITION STRATEGY
Healthier food choices create stronger communities. Through the REACH nutrition strategy, we partner with local organizations to make healthy options more available, accessible, and possible for everyone in Newaygo, Oceana, and Lake counties.
OUR APPROACH
How We're Making Healthy Choices Easier
Through the REACH nutrition strategy, we focus on practical, community-driven solutions. From healthier food environments to increased access to fruits and vegetables.
FOOD SERVICE GUIDELINES
Healthier Food Environments at
Work and in the Community
Every day, millions of Americans rely on the charitable food system, the emergency food system, or their place of work for their meals. Our goal through REACH is to collaborate with partners to educate people on healthier food choices and increase their access to nourishing foods in these crucial locations. We'll achieve this through a variety of strategies including conducting surveys, providing free food service guidelines technical assistance and trainings to interested organizations, and enhancing policy, system, and/or environmental changes.
Interested in improving the food and beverage options at your workplace?
If your organization is located in Newaygo, Oceana, or Lake County, District Health Department #10 can support you in exploring healthier food service guidelines and nutrition standards. Using the CDC’s Food Service Guidelines Assessment Tool, we can help assess current offerings and identify easy ways to create a healthier food environment for staff and visitors.
PRODUCE PRESCRIPTION PROGRAMS
Connecting People to
Fruits and Vegetables
In addition to advancing food service guidelines, our work includes expanding fruit and vegetable produce prescription programs in our communities. These programs aim to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables in two ways.
One, by increasing the number of places (doctor's offices, dental offices, health departments, federally qualified health centers) newly writing prescriptions and issuing vouchers for produce redeemable at local farmers markets, grocery stores, and food pantries.
Two, through expanding the number of new participants in the fruit and vegetable produce prescription programs.