Nutrition Supports in Health Care

The UofSC SNAP-Ed team partners with health care settings throughout South Carolina to implement policy, systems, and environmental change nutrition support strategies with the goal of decreasing food insecurity and increasing access to healthy foods among patients. We provide continuous support and guidance on selecting, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining nutrition support strategies.

Example strategies include:

- - Screening patients for food insecurity and referring to community or onsite resources for nutrition
  - Developing produce prescription programs
  - Establishing a produce garden
  - Hosting an onsite farmers market
  - Starting a food pantry focused on wellness and nutrition
  - Expanding or improving transportation options for patients to get to and from the health care site
  - Supporting breastfeeding through space, policies, and practices

Steps

Partner Recruitment
Readiness Assessment
Patient Input
Nutrition Support Strategy(ies) Selection
Nutrition Support Implementation Planning
Nutrition Support Adoption
Integration of Direct Nutrition Education
Evaluation
Course-Correction
Sustainability Planning

Resources

If you are interested in partnering with us on nutrition support implementation, complete this brief interest form found here: Health Clinic Nutrition Supports Interest Form
To learn more about nutrition supports in the health care setting, download our toolkit here: Nutrition Supports for Health Clinics Toolkit

For more information, contact:
Amy Weaver at teixeira@mailbox.sc.edu