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.

General