The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released its new Food Is Medicine Virtual Toolkit. The Toolkit was developed in response to the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and to support communities design and implement effective Food is Medicine interventions. Key resources include:
- Analytic framework – priority measurement domains and metrics to advance Food is Medicine implementation and evaluation
- Foundational materials – federal landscape setting and policy support tools
- Tailored state data pages – Medicaid and Medicare populations with potential benefit of food is medicine
- Federal Food is Medicine resource hub – information on relevant federal policies, regulations, educational tools, and funding opportunities to support food is medicine programs
- Promising practices – models/emerging practices for broad, scalable FIM implementation
- Bright spots – insights from innovators across the country and the FIM ecosystem