Health/Youth

 The Health/Youth Working Group set out these priority strategies to implement the regional goal and objectives developed at the Farm Route to Prosperity Summit, February 24, 2009:
 

  • Ensure that families involved in the federal Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) assistance program are able to find and purchase local produce.
  • Identify, link, and promote community gardening efforts in the region.
  • Identify, link, and promote food/farm youth entrepreneurship programs.
  • Use available community information media to link people and promote programs.