Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Washington Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Inc. Engaged Community Offshoots, Inc. aka ECO City Farms Providence Health Foundation Access to Wholistic and Productive Living Institute, Inc. Community Builders LTD Capital Area Food Bank Centro De Apoyo Familiar (CAF)
Prince George’s County Place Matters54 The Port Towns Community Health Partnership sponsors the Prince George’s County Place Matters program, which was launched in October, 2013. The program’s focus areas are food equity, healthy schools, and faith communities. Its goal includes reducing community inequity by placing health at the center of all policy considerations. Through various strategies, Prince George’s County Place Matters creates more equitable access to healthy foods and encourages active lifestyles to reduce chronic disease and obesity rates. The Place Matters team’s partners include public health representatives, education representatives, local elected officials, land use planners, and residents committed to advancing health through policies that address the system-level determinants of health.
The Prince George’s County Food Equity Council55 The Prince George’s County Food Equity Council (FEC) was launched in October, 2013. The mission of the Council is to: “Significantly improve public health and community well-being of all who live, work, study, worship and play in the County. [The FEC] will develop and support policies, approaches, procedures, practices and initiatives to create systemic change to the local food system, promoting health, economic opportunity, food security, and well-being, especially among communities that have been negatively impacted by the current food system.” FEC developed out of the Place Matters team of the Port Towns Community Health Partnership and has been incubated within IPHI since its launch. One of the working groups is Healthy Eating and Nutrition Education.
Health Policy Research Consortium56 The mission of the Health Policy Research Consortium (HPRC) is to improve the quality of health care by addressing health inequalities across social, ethnic, and racial groups in Prince George’s County as well as the greater D.C. area and surrounding states. HPRC was initiated in 2014 through the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, which is part of the National Institutes for Health.
Who We Are. Prince George’s County Place Matters. http://placematterspgc.org/index.php/porttowns/who-we-are Prince George’s County Food Equity Council. www.pgcfec.org 56 The Health Policy Research Consortium. www.hprc.info 54 55
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