Monadnock Region Food Access Plan
The Monadnock Region Food Access Plan (Food Access Plan) is a region wide effort to address gaps and assets in current nutrition programs, develop a “baseline of hunger” in our region, and co-design ten projects with households with lived experience of hunger and other community members, that fill these gaps.
The Monadnock Children’s Food Access Alliance (Alliance); a MFCC work group and leader of Healthy Monadnock Alliance’s Food Access Community Health Improvement Plan, is leading the Food Access Plan.
Check out the “Story Maps” of the
Analysis, below.
ASSEMBLING THE FOOD ACCESS PLAN
Starting in Spring 2021, the Alliance hired SW Region Planning Commission to implement a comprehensive nutrition program gap and asset analysis, and generate a baseline for the experience of hunger in the region. The 2021 Monadnock Region Food Access Analysis (Analysis) includes the findings. The Alliance used report key findings to develop a “Food Access Plan” that fills identified gaps in programs and services and outlines funding opportunities.
In fall 2021, the Alliance hosted a two-hour community forum and four, 2-hour listening sessions with the Food Access Council, a recruited team of voices with lived experience of hunger who could provide feedback on the Monadnock Region Food Access Analysis and inform initiatives going forward.
Subsequently, Alliance members summarized listening session and forum participant feedback and rankings of the key findings of the Monadnock Region Food Access Analysis. Ten projects identifying gaps and addressing needs based on this feedback inform the Monadnock Region Food Access Plan.
