Nourish and Navigate
Project focus area
Improve community health by placing a Community Health Worker (CHW) at the Salvation Army food pantry. Will assist clients in making healthy food choices, provide nutrition education, & support chronic disease management
Demographics
Persons with low income
Evidence
In addition to people given a regular monthly food pantry visit, we created and compiled an emergency food box with a weekly meal plan, meal recipes, and nutritional information in case people needed additional food, and how to make the food stretch. We didn't have to purchase extra food and build these boxes, but the good news is we now have an emergency food box plan with healthy meals and recipes built into it.
Our pantry serves around 100 households a month, an average of 300 individuals. From July to December 2025, our pantry served 676 households of 1553 individuals. (171 new households, 408 new individuals). We received good feedback about the pantry improvements.
Progress
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Collaborators
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Penny Smith
Dashboard
- Collaborators
- 1
- New partnerships
- 4
- Total investment
- $5,000
- People impacted
- 676