ABOUT

Improving Health through a Sustainable Food System focuses on the northern zip codes of Pasadena, Texas. The North Pasadena community experiences a higher rate of poverty, lower educational attainment, more linguistic isolation, and higher levels of food insecurity than the surrounding region. It also has the highest level of children who are overweight or obese in Harris County. The Harris County BUILD Health Partnership addressed these issues by launching a complete food system using models, programs, and policies shown by evidence to reduce BMI while also closing the gap in upstream factors of food insecurity.  The partnership’s vision was nutrition equity in North Pasadena, and its mission was to “eliminate the conditions that cause food insecurity in North Pasadena.”

Because of BUILD we…

“Convened and nurtured a strong public/private partnership (public works, community development, public health, business and healthcare) for future economic investment in the North Pasadena neighborhood.”

 

Impact

The BUILD Health Challenge grant allowed North Pasadena’s Sustainable Food System to accelerate its efforts toward nutrition equity through: providing a local source of fresh produce in Pasadena by opening the area’s first farm; developing a local network of healthy food access points through healthy corner stores, healthy dining, and Brighter Bite; and launching new programs like food scholarships and the food prescription program (“FRx”) to help community members access food and make healthy choices.

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East5ide Unified

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