Health and Strength and Daily Food

Health and Strength and Daily Food challenges faith communities to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by building state and local partnerships to improve access to healthy foods, open natural spaces, and active recreational opportunities for children.

Texas Food Policy Roundtable

The Texas Food Policy Roundtable (TFPR) is a broadly based group of Texas leaders who will develop, coordinate and improve the implementation of food policy to address hunger and promote equitable, sustainable and healthy food in Texas.

Summer Food Service Program: A Toolkit for Faith Communities

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program provides funding for local organizations to offer nutritious meals and healthy activity for children during the summer months. Faith communities can play an important role in ensuring that Texas kids get the nutritious food and physical activity they need by providing sites for SFSP programs and volunteers to serve at existing sites. Congregations can participate all summer long, or just for a week or two. Our new toolkit gives you step-by-step information on the many different ways you can get involved with SFSP.

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Food and Faith

Texas is facing a childhood obesity crisis. The rate of obese children in Texas doubled in the past 20 years and continues to rise. If current trends continue, the annual cost of addressing weight-related health issues will increase from $15.6 billion in 2010 to $39 billion by 2040, according to the Texas Interagency Obesity Council. Rising childhood obesity in Texas reflects the fundamental need to improve access to healthy food, open natural spaces, and nutrition education.

Texas is beginning to address this growing problem, but much more needs to be done. Texas Impact has created a new initiative, Health and Strength and Daily Food, to address the childhood obesity crisis. By creating partnerships with state, federal, and local agencies we seek to promote better access to healthy foods, open natural spaces, and active recreational opportunities for Texas children.

Texas Impact is also a founding member of the Texas Food Policy Roundtable (TFPR). The Texas Food Policy Roundtable (TFPR) is a broadly based group of Texas leaders who will develop, coordinate and improve the implementation of food policy to address hunger and promote equitable, sustainable and healthy food in Texas. The roundtable will focus on four areas of food policy: SNAP, obesity and nutrition, summer food programs, and local & sustainable food production.

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