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Improving Health Outcomes Through Investigations of Wabanaki Food Systems in Maine

NCT07561593 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2026-05-26

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Summary

Wabanaki ancestral lands historically provided abundant resources, allowing Wabanaki people to rely exclusively on hunting, fishing, and gathering for all their subsistence needs. However, as their sacred hunting and fishing grounds were lost to colonization, the Wabanaki people lost access to their traditional foods, which has had devastating impacts on the communities' health and well-being. Without access to traditional foods like fiddleheads, corn, beans, squash, wild rice, fish, and many others, the Wabanaki people experienced a surge in many nutrition-related health problems, such as diabetes, obesity, and heart-disease, which have only increased exponentially with time. This Community Research Project (CRP) seeks to improve these health outcomes for Wabanaki people by upscaling the Wabanaki Mobile Food Pantry (WMFP), an existing program that delivers fresh and traditional foods to the Tribal communities. The CRP is grounded in the understanding that food sovereignty is fundamental to achieving and sustaining the health and well-being of Wabanaki communities. The upscaled WMFP aims to increase community access to fresh, traditional, or locally sourced foods, improve community perceptions of food pantries, support cultural connection, promote sustainable, culturally relevant food systems, and increase Tribal members' knowledge and self-efficacy surrounding the cultivation, preparation, and preservation of traditional foods.

Conditions

  • Food Insecurity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Upscaling the Wabanaki Mobile Food Pantry Program

Community-led expansion of a Mobile Food Pantry program designed to improve access to nutritious and culturally appropriate foods and address food insecurity among Wabanaki communities. Outcomes are evaluated using a pre-post study design.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yale University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Washington State University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Drexel University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-05-11
Primary Completion
2026-08-31
Completion
2027-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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