Healthy Food For All: A Community Food Security Plan

Описание: A strong community depends on an accessible and affordable food system – one that meets current food needs and builds capacity to provide healthy food for generations to come. Yet, in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, approximately 100,810 people (12.5%) experience food insecurity, meaning they do not consistently know where their next meal will come from. More troubling are the pockets of deep food insecurity that exist in northeast, southeast, and northwest Omaha, and portions of Pottawattamie County, where food insecurity rates can reach as high as 48.5%. Food insecurity is even more common among families with children.

To address these issues, more than seventy partners from across the three county Omaha-Council Bluff metropolitan area have come together to produce Healthy Food for All – A Community Food Security Plan for Douglas, Sarpy, and Pottawattamie Counties. View the full plan at: www.unitedwaymidlands.org/food-plan

Hear from strategic working action group members Nancy Williams of No More Empty Pots, Craig Howell from Alliance for a Better Omaha, Kerry Kernen from the Douglas County Health Department and Mariel Harding of United Way of the Midlands.