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Helpful Information & Organizations

There are many resources that can be helpful for health care professionals. Explore resources and information, including other organizations that support professionals working at the intersection of food access and health care in Vermont. 

Vermont Resources

  • MyHealthyVT
  • AAA
  • VDH Heart Health
  • VDH Healthy Eating
  • Age Well VT
  • WIC   (including eligibility )
  • 3Squares (including eligibility)
  • VT Foodbank-Find A Food Shelf
  • NEW! Food is Medicine in Vermont Report
  • Food Is Medicine: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

Recipe Resources

  • Age Well – YouTube channel 

  • CDC Food Safety

  • Deborah Kennedy – The Food Coach Academy Sample Course

  • Eat Smart

    From American Heart Association

  • EatingWell 30 Day DASH Plan

  • EatingWell Mediterranean Diet

  • Employee Wellness YouTube Playlist from UVM Medical Center

  • Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

  • Food Fit Program  – Bennington 

  • Food Hero

    Developed by Oregon State, used by NEKProsper! 

  • Good Food on a Tight Budget.

  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health – building a plate with less red meat  

  • Healthy for Life

    From American Heart Association

  • Hunger Free Vermont: Nutrition Education Resource Hub

    (includes Learning Kitchen curriculum)

  • Library of cooking videos from the Veterans Health Administration

  • NIH DASH Eating Plan

  • NOTCH Healthy Choices Video Showcase

  • Old Ways Traditional Diet Patterns

  • Recipes shared by UVM Medical Center

    UVM Medical Center

  • Salvation Farms – Vermont Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Handbook

  • SNAP-Ed

  • The Good & Cheap cookbook by Leanne Brown

    (includes link to a free PDF version)  

  • The Kitchn Beginner’s Guide to Meal Planning

  • USDA Food Safety Education

  • Vermont Foodbank – VT Fresh Program  

  • Vermont Harvest of the Month

  • VT FEED (Food Education Every Day) – Farm-to-School

  • What’s That Food? – UVMMC Culinary Medicine Program

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  • “Everyone’s struggling right now”: Impact of COVID-19 on addressing food insecurity in rural primary care

  • “I was able to eat what I am supposed to eat”— patient reflections on a medically-tailored meal intervention: a qualitative analysis

  • Assessing the impact of medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy on type 2 diabetes: Protocol for Project MiNT

  • Association between food and nutrition insecurity with cardiometabolic risk factors in childhood and adolescence: a systematic review

  • Compliance to oral nutritional supplementation decreases the risk of hospitalization in malnourished older adults without extra health care cost: Prospective observational cohort study

  • Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use: A Randomized Clinical Trial

  • Executive functioning and dietary intake: Neurocognitive correlates of fruit, vegetable, and saturated fat intake in adults with obesity

  • Food as Medicine Report

  • Food for Thought: A Randomized Trial of Food Insecurity Screening in the Emergency Department

  • Food Insecurity Screening in Pediatric Primary Care: Can Offering Referrals Help Identify Families in Need?

  • Food Insecurity, Chronic Disease, and Health Among Working-Age Adults

  • Healthy Food Rx Results – 12 Months

  • Hunger Pains: How Food Insecurity Affects Oral Health

    Nearly 24 million adults in the US — approximately 9% of the adult population — experience food insecurity, according to CareQuest Institute’s 2023 State of Oral Health Equity in America […]

  • Integrating Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN)

    Screening and Referral into Clinical Workflow – a toolkit to help organizations integrate social needs screening and referral processes.

  • Lessons learned from implementation of the food insecurity screening and referral program at Kaiser Permanente Colorado

  • Malnutrition in older adults

  • Medically Tailored Meals as a Prescription for Treatment of Food-Insecure Type 2 Diabetics

  • New Federal Efforts to Address Food and Nutrition Insecurity

  • Nutrition Risk Screening: The Interrelationship of Food Insecurity, Food Intake, and Unintentional Weight Change Among Homebound Elders

  • Nutritional Risk Screening Tools for Older Adults with COVID-19: A Systematic Review

  • Participant perspectives on the impact of receiving medically tailored meals on post-hospitalization

  • Predicted prevalence of five chronic diseases increased as household food security worsened:

  • Screening for Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Healthcare Setting: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Non-Medicaid Insured Adults in an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System

  • Screening for Food Insecurity in Pediatric Clinical Settings: Opportunities and Barriers

  • The impact of home-delivered meal services on the nutritional intake of community living older adults: a systematic literature review

  • The Impact of Nutritional Needs of Older Adults on Recommended Food Intakes

  • True Cost of Food: Food is Medicine Case Study — from Tufts University the first “true cost” analysis of implementing Food is medicine programs across the country.

  • USDA Economic Research Service Webinar: Household Food Security in the United States in 2023

  • Vermont Department of Financial Regulation: Analysis of Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) Utilization in Vermont

Videos

Nutrition Security Screening Tool VRHA Training Series.

Cooking and Nutrition Train the Trainer Series view all four recordings.

Ammonoosuc Community Health Services (ACHS) Portable Teaching Kitchen

What’s That Food? – UVMMC Culinary Medicine Program

NOTCH Healthy Choices

NOTCH Healthy Choices
Video Showcase

Age Well – YouTube channel  and Older Vermonters Nutrition Coalition  

Employee Wellness YouTube Playlist from UVM Medical Center

Library of cooking videos from the Veterans Health Administration

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