Farm to Families: Increasing access to healthy, local foods through Community Supported Agriculture in food insecure neighborhoods

With the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, particularly among young people living in low-income neighborhoods, fostering healthy living through and environmental and policy changes have become high public health priorities. 

At this year’s American Public Health Association annual conference, OMG's Wendy Sedlak and Jan Shaeffer from St. Christopher's Foundation for Children presented lessons learned from OMG’s evaluation of the Farm to Families initiative, an effort to increase access to healthy foods for families in North Philadelphia. 

View the presentation in PDF here, or visit http://scfchildren.org/index.php/programs/farm-to-families-initiative/ to learn more about Farm to Families and view a video about Farm to Families.