Daily News | Meeting people where they’re at: Corner stores become mini health centers
The Food Trust’s Healthy Corner Store Initiative combines training, equipment and support for owners, and incentives for shoppers.
For almost 10 years The Food Trust’s Healthy Corner Store Initiative and Heart Smarts Program has been working to transform corner stores, often disparaged as a nutritional wastelands, into community health hubs by combining training, equipment and marketing materials for owners with regular nutrition education and incentives for shoppers. Almost 3,400 participants took the nutrition lessons between August 2021 and June 2022.
Many of the shoppers who came to the store, like Harmon, were familiar with The Food Trust bilingual community educators’ Jose Placencia and Ruth Perez’s Heart Smart lessons — a nine-week nutrition education series covering topics relevant to the corner store environment.After Placencia’s rapid fire talk — extolling the benefits of fruits and vegetables, granola bars, unsalted nuts and raisins over chips, cakes and cookies — Harmon dashed into the store.
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