A Scan of Partnerships Between Community-Based Organizations and Healthcare Providers in North Carolina

North Carolina is at the forefront of the Food is Medicine movement, integrating nutrition into healthcare through community initiatives.

Joining individuals and organizations from across the country who have come together to help our home state in recovery. 

Investing in opportunities to grow and strengthen home-based child care has become an emerging focus of our organization.

Food hubs are an important and unique component of our state’s local food system helping to provide healthy fresh food, while supporting local farmers and communities.

The expansion of school-based programs is helping more children across the state access preventive oral health care in a setting where they spend the majority of their time.

North Carolina is fertile ground for an approach that bolsters health care’s role in addressing food security and opens doors to healthy food.