During our first year, we will focus on increasing healthy eating with youth in our community.

We will address healthy eating with youth by working with schools to implement Smarter Lunchrooms. The Smarter Lunchrooms Movement is a nationwide movement based on proven strategies for nudging students to select and eat the healthiest foods in the school lunchroom. The Smarter Lunchrooms Movement provides schools with the knowledge, motivation, and resources needed to build a lunchroom environment that makes healthy food choices the easy choice. The Smarter Lunchrooms Movement uses a scorecard to provide schools with a snapshot of how many strategies are currently in place in a lunchroom. The Smarter Lunchrooms Scorecard contains 60 simple, no-cost or low-cost strategies that lunchrooms can use to increase participation, improve consumption of healthy food, and reduce food waste. The scorecard is used to gather pre- and post- data about the cafeteria environment. For more information, visit https://www.smarterlunchrooms.org/.

We will also address healthy eating by developing a Farm to School directory. The Farm to School directory will provide schools with contact and produce information from farms who are interested in selling to schools. Farm to School programs connect and enrich communities and increase farmers' revenues by providing a local market. Farm to School programs allow farmers to supply schools with fresh fruits and vegetables and provide students with a fresh, healthy meal. 

Macomb County Health Department

Michigan State University Extension (MSUE)

Macomb Intermediate School District (MISD)

Henry Ford Health System

Oakland County Health Department

Greater Detroit Area Health Council (GDAHC)

Macomb County Planning and Economic Development

Ascension

Good Shepherd Coalition

Beaumont Health System