UConn Healthy Family Connecticut

This organization works with community members to increase awareness and involve additional community stakeholders in groups (e.g., additional community HAT teams) to decrease food insecurity and improve SNAP recipients' consumption of healthy foods. This organization empowers audiences to enhance diet quality within budget strategies (e.g., pantry foods for adults to cook at home, recognizing local farmers' produce in groceries. The overall goal of this integrated project is to improve diet quality and decrease chronic disease risk factors in low-income adults using a multi-level, equity-oriented intervention, combining personalized nutrition education (PNE) enhanced with digital food and nutrition literacy (DFNL), digital food access, and communication ("Smart Nutrition"") and community collaboration to improve access to nutritious, culturally acceptable, and affordable diets.

Community partners

Multiple community partners in Willimantic, Windham Counties, East Hartford, Enfield, Manchester, New London County, New Britain, Vernon, West Harford, Bristol

Funding agency

SNAP-Ed through CT DSS and USDA/FNS and new funding from USDA/NIFA/AFRI (PDs - Drs. Ock Chun, Michael Puglisi, Valeri Duffy)

Scope

In-State

Keywords

nutrition education; low-income; food access; diet quality; mobile health; equity; social media; community-based participatory research; obesity prevention; health promotion; SNAP-Ed; partnerships