Simmered Greens
Prep Tip: Prepare greens by washing thoroughly and removing stems. Helpful Hint: 2 cups of raw greens makes about 1/2 cup cooked.
Change It Up: For a colorful dish, add chopped tomatoes. For a little heat, add some crushed red pepper or a dash of your favorite hot sauce. For a flavor boost and a little crunch, add 1/4 cup of chopped roasted peanuts just before serving.
Nutrition Tip: Greens are an excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin K. Greens grow well in cooler weather and can survive the occasional frost. Kale and collards actually taste sweeter after a frost.
Food as Medicine | FRESHRx
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) and Diabetes (Sugar) are typically a result of poor diet. FRESHRx is a prescription for nutrition education and $90 of fresh fruits and vegetables.
WeCARE Seniors | 313.731.2068
A Senior Advocate can help those 60+ obtain a food box. Our caring Senior Advocate calls to see how seniors are doing, and we send cards just because. Food box delivery may be available.
Health and Nutrition | 313.731.2068
Our evidence-based programs help you lead a healthier, active life. Knowledgeable educators help you make your dollars stretch, show you how to shop for and cook healthy meals, and how to stay physically active.
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HUNGER AND FOOD INSECURITY
The USDA defines food insecurity as a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life. This can be a temporary situation for a family or can last a long time. Food insecurity is one way we measure how many people can't afford food. Hunger is the feeling someone has when they don't have food!
More than 34 million people, including 9 million children
experience food insecurity in the United States.
Innovative Community Change Makers!
Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care. Health equity reduces and ultimately eliminates disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect, exclude, or marginalize Black, Latino and Indigenous people of color (BLIPOC).
GenesisHOPE's theory of change looks at Community Development through the lens of health. Our focus is on evidence-based interventions that address the root causes of our physical health such as diet and exercise. These behavioral factors account for thirty percent (30%) of our health. Plus GenesisHOPE's core mission, as a place-based community development organization, is to address social risk factors such as housing, and the physical environment, and help families fill socioeconomic gaps -- these social determinants of health are fifty percent (50%) of our health.
Our theory of change for people living in households earning less than 80% of the area median income in 48207, 48213, and 48214 to have fair and just opportunities to be as healthy as possible (with access to healthy food, supportive resources and services, and quality efficient affordable housing) is:
Real Estate Developments | create the physical place, stability, and economic growth;
Food Access and Nutrition Education | provides people a chance to learn, try and practice healthier food choices;
Direct Services | help people of eligible households reduce social risk factors and barriers to good health; and
Collaboration | improves the coordination of equitable care and program delivery for people, and policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes for places.
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