IDPH Awarded Funding to Foster Nutrition Equity Across the State

Today, the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) publicizes that it has obtained grant funding of $144,275 from the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) as a part of its newly established State Partnerships Improving Nutrition Equity (SPINE) program. SPINE is a federal program that addresses meals and vitamin safety via sustainable and equitable actions that deal with financial and social circumstances limiting meals and vitamin safety throughout the lifespan. 

The IDPH Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity SNAP-Ed group will work with stakeholders to handle meals insecurity with coverage, system, and environmental (PSE) change tasks as a part of the Iowa Food System Coalition that aligns with the objectives of the Iowa meals plan.

“We’re proud to be a member of the SPINE program and the funding from NACDD permits us to proceed our efforts to handle root causes of meals insecurity with coverage, system, and environmental modifications” stated Jill Lange, M.P.H., R.D.N., L.D., bureau chief of the IDPH’s Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity. “PSE modifications are crucial in addressing wants for meals and vitamin safety throughout Iowa as they use a multidimensional strategy to unravel multidimensional points.”

In addition to Iowa, eight different states had been chosen to obtain help: Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Oregon. NACDD is working with the 9 SPINE states to construct and implement sustainable partnerships, packages, and providers into present efforts, particularly in communities with populations at excessive threat (Black folks, Latinx, American Indians/Native Americans, younger kids, getting old adults, and other people with disabilities). States will obtain augmented help, together with tailor-made and in depth coaching and technical help to extend meals and vitamin safety, attain populations at excessive threat, and handle well being fairness. 

Visit www.chronicdisease.org/spine-program for extra details about the SPINE program. To be taught extra concerning the Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity, go to www.idph.iowa.gov/nutrition-physical-activity.