Highlights

Senior Food Box Program Nutrition Education

This year brought incredible growth to the Senior Food Box Program. This program provides a box of shelf-stable food staples each month to very low income seniors across the region.

We began 2022 serving 1,415 older adults each month and ended the year with 2,100 enrolled.

Each month, volunteers pack these boxes of food and nearly 100 partners host the program's pick up locations. Growth was spurred by outreach by the PACE (prescription assistance) program that serves income eligible seniors and by a partnership with DoorDash offering delivery.

Our Nutrition Education department has been busy hosting Cooking Matters classes throughout the community! Participants learn about food preparation, grocery shopping, meal planning, food budgeting and nutrition. The 6week class includes cooking meals together and local grocery store tour where we discuss how to shop strategically and choose foods to cook simple, healthy meals. The nutrition team has adapted the style of our Nutrition Education to this setting. We now visit each car in line to provide a food sample and nutrition information while individuals wait to be served.