Addressing Food Insecurity: Plant-Based Food Prescription Program

Summary

Reduce food insecurity by improving plant-based health food consumption, access, health and nutrition literacy and the health of the food-insecure families we serve.

Conditions

• Health Literacy
• Nutrition, Healthy
• Nutrition Poor
• Food Insecurity
• Food Insecurity Among Children
• Low Income Population

Interventions

OTHER

Plant-Based Food Provision (with or without food prescription)

Food Prescription: Participants will bring the food prescription obtained from the nutrition class to Village FREEdge, food pantry at the Freedom Lab, where it will function as a voucher. Each voucher will allow for participants to pick up enough plant-based food for 6 meals per person in their household (with household maximum of 5 people)(enough meals for 3 days- 2 meals per person per day). We expect that participants will pick up food twice per week from Village FREEdge to obtain enough meals to feed each participant's household for 6 days out of the week for up to 1 year. Without food prescription: Participants will be given plant-based meals from Village FREEdge (up to two meals per day with a maximum of two meals per pick-up) without the use of a food prescription.

OTHER

Plant-Based Nutrition Education

A once weekly classes for a 5-week nutrition course. The parents/guardians would bring their children and any additional household member(s) to the nutrition class, which will organize participants in different classrooms by age (children 4 years, 4-12 years old, 12-14 years old, 14+ years old). Each classrooms will engage in age-appropriate interactive nutrition-based activities. All children below 18 will engage in interactive activities for the full 1.5 hours. Adolescents aged 14 up will join the classroom with adults and listen to a 45 minute lecture and engage in a subsequent 45 minute interactive activity that incorporates content from the lecture. The interactive activities for the children range from creating a fruit and veggie "Tik Tok" song and performing it, drawing foods on a "balanced plate", etc. The interactive activities for participants 14 year old and older range from discussions about fiber in diet, guided plant-based meal preparation, reading nutrition label etc.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• American Academy of Pediatrics

  collaborator OTHER

• Committee of Interns and Residents SEIU Healthcare

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Miami

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Azaria V Lewis, DO · University of Miami

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age

99 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-01-09

Primary Completion

2027-12-31

Completion

2028-03-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations