Project Partners: Providence Milwaukie’s Community Teaching Kitchen, Knight’s of Columbus, Wichita Hardware
Project Aim: Increasing health and fresh food access of Clackamas County residents by developing partnerships, systems, and capacity around nutrition education and home-scale food production.
Priority Topic Area: Culture of Health
Goal:
Clackamas County will use housing as a platform to improve health.
All Clackamas County residents have access to healthy food.
Clackamas County families with children, ages 0‐5, are engaged in high quality early learning experiences and are connected to comprehensive health care services.
Objectives:
Develop cross‐sector partnerships that promote health and housing.
Increase distribution of produce to food insecure individuals and families.
Conduct analysis of current resources to enhance health food access points within existing locations in Clackamas
By June 2020, the number of early learning experiences will increase.
Priority Topic Area: Healthy Behaviors
Goal:
Reduce heart disease and type II diabetes
Objectives:
Increase the percentage of people consuming CDC recommendation of 5 or more fruits and vegetables per day.
Reduce percentage of children ages 0‐5 screen time exposure to CDC recommendation of 1‐2 hours maximum recreationally.
Increase the percentage of people meeting the CDC’s physical activity recommendations of 30 minutes daily for adults and 1 hour daily for youth.
Project Highlights:
Enrolled and built gardens for 4 low-income families
Started a small garden program at a Latino women’s domestic violence shelter
Began collaboration with Providence’s Teaching Kitchen to teach classes
Began partnerships to provide discounted gardening tools to program participants
Established partnership with local groups to help construct gardens
