How do the nutrition and fitness goals in Healthy People 2020 compare to those in Healthy People 2030?

SOLUTION

The motto of Health Leads is “Better Health. One connection at a time.”

Health Leads has a database of resources that is constantly updated which includes information on SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)—otherwise known as food stamps, Head Start, and food pantries, as well as many other resources. Details included are hours open and languages spoken.

For example, a Boston-based Health Leads program relies on college students who work as volunteers in six cities: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, New York, Providence, and Washington, D.C. They help patients with such challenges as not having enough food to eat, living in unsafe housing, finding high-quality child care, or securing utility assistance.  For example, physicians can prescribe food, health, and other basic resources their patients need to be healthy, alongside prescriptions for medication. Patients then take their prescriptions to a desk in the clinic waiting room, where corps of well-trained college student advocates ‘fill’ those prescriptions by working side-by-side with the patients to access the existing landscape of community resources.