We aim to work alongside community partners to advance healthy eating habits, active lifestyles, and healthy community environments for families with limited incomes. We utilize evidence-based strategies with two approaches:
Direct Education
Policy, System, and Environment Changes & Social Marketing
FoodWIse Programs and Curriculum We Teach and Help Implement
Educators, Schools, and School Food Service Directors
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Direct Education:
- In-class elementary nutrition education:
- Parent and family educational events on healthy eating and physical activity
- StrongBodies:
- A research-based strength program for adults. “StrongWomen™/StrongBodies envisions a worldwide community of women who are fit, strong, and healthy; in turn, these empowered women will become positive agents of change for their families, communities, and beyond.”
- StrongBodies:
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PSE Programs:
- Go NAPSACC:
- “Go NAPSACC works with child care providers to improve the health of young children through practices, policies, and environments that instill habits supporting lifelong health and well-being. We offer modules on key topics like healthy eating, physical activity, and oral health.”
- Healthy Schools
- Supporting schools in creating, assessing, and implementing wellness policies as well as initiatives to support healthy environments for district families.
- Support Farm to School efforts and Improving School Meal Appeal and Environments!
- School Garden funding, programming, and sustainability.
- Harvest Of The Month:
- “Our statewide campaign for schools provides promotion, education and media resources to encourage kids and families to eat more fruits and vegetables.”
- Growing Together:
- “The Growing Together WI project is working towards improved food security, safety and health for FoodShare eligible participants in Wisconsin. Growing Together WI encourages collaboration between FoodWIse education staff and Master Gardener Volunteers to promote healthy food access and availability through garden spaces. This collaborative effort can take place in a variety of ways such as development and maintenance of community garden spaces for limited income audiences, garden produce donations to food pantries, and teaching limited income audiences how to grow their own food. Together we can make a difference!”
- Youth Advocates for Community Health (YACH)
- An evidenced-based approach to lift up youth voices in their communities to make the healthy choice the easy choice where they live, learn, work and play.
- Go NAPSACC:
Food Pantries
Direct Education:
- We offer single and a series of lessons on healthy eating and physical activity.
PSE Programs:
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- Safe and Healthy Food Pantries Project:
- “The Safe & Healthy Food Pantries Project was developed to provide food pantries with guidance on how to improve the nutritional quality and safety of their food inventories.”
- Growing Together:
- “The Growing Together WI project is working towards improved food security, safety and health for FoodShare eligible participants in Wisconsin. Growing Together WI encourages collaboration between FoodWIse education staff and Master Gardener Volunteers to promote healthy food access and availability through garden spaces. This collaborative effort can take place in a variety of ways such as development and maintenance of community garden spaces for limited income audiences, garden produce donations to food pantries, and teaching limited income audiences how to grow their own food. Together we can make a difference!”
- Safe and Healthy Food Pantries Project:
Affordable/Subsidized Housing
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Direct Education:
- We offer lessons for groups of adults on healthy eating and physical activity.
- StrongBodies:
- A research-based strength program for adults. “StrongWomen™/StrongBodies envisions a worldwide community of women who are fit, strong, and healthy; in turn, these empowered women will become positive agents of change for their families, communities, and beyond.”
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PSE Programs:
- Growing Together:
- “The Growing Together WI project is working towards improved food security, safety and health for FoodShare eligible participants in Wisconsin. Growing Together WI encourages collaboration between FoodWIse education staff and Master Gardener Volunteers to promote healthy food access and availability through garden spaces. This collaborative effort can take place in a variety of ways such as development and maintenance of community garden spaces for limited income audiences, garden produce donations to food pantries, and teaching limited income audiences how to grow their own food. Together we can make a difference!”
- Growing Together:
Farmers' Markets
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Direct Education:
- We offer farmers’ market tours for eligible audiences to encourage usage of vouchers, EBT, and purchasing local healthy foods.
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PSE Programs:
- Discover Wisconsin Farmers’ Markets
- This site provides free recipes and handouts that can be printed as a resource to markets to help nudge customers to try new foods .
- EBT/SNAP and Senior/WIC Farmers’ Market Vouchers
- We work with various partners to promote the utilization of these programs to audiences with limited income. We will also work to support markets and farmers’ in their efforts to offer food benefits, as they are essential elements in making the healthy choice the easy choice in our communities.
- Discover Wisconsin Farmers’ Markets
