OUR PROGRAMS
Transforming Health Through Education, Support, and Community Engagement.
CORE FEAST PROGRAMS
Promoting Health through Education, Support, and Healthy Food Access
Wellness Program
FEAST’s 16-week Wellness program FEAST’s 16-week Wellness program serves adults experiencing food insecurity and heightened risk of food related illnesses.
The program provides practical knowledge, like how to read a nutrition label and cook healthy, satisfying meals on a budget along with a safe, supportive environment to work on our relationships with, and belief systems about, food and health.
Family Feeding
FEAST’s 8-week Family Feeding program serves parents with children ages 0-5.
The program is designed to reduce the negative impacts of stress, depression, and anxiety by providing social support for parents, and to prevent childhood obesity through healthy food access and nutrition education.
Perinatal Support
FEAST is developing a Perinatal Support Program designed to support birthing people throughout their perinatal and postpartum journey. The goal of this program will be to promote maternal well-being, healthy family habits and a nurturing home environment, as well as fostering supportive family and community social networks. These factors are identified as critical pathways that significantly impact child outcomes during the crucial developmental stages of pregnancy, postpartum, infancy, and early childhood.
All core FEAST programs provide participants with:
Food Education through nutrition information, recipes, and cooking demonstrations.
Access to fresh, whole foods, through vouchers to local markets and distribution of fresh produce.
Support Together through peer-to-peer sharing circles designed to build deep bonds of friendship and uncover the underlying and often emotional elements of our eating habits.
FOOD ACCESS & DISTRIBUTION
FEAST addresses food insecurity by rescuing fresh produce from a variety of sources including retail grocery stores and food warehouses through partnerships with Seeds of Hope and Food Forward to prevent food waste, and distribute otherwise surplus food to people in the community experiencing poverty, food insecurity and diet-related illnesses. In addition, or in lieu of fresh produce, FEAST participants may also receive gift cards (food scholarships) to local retail grocers in order to address economic barriers with tangible support for families to nourish themselves and choose foods they want to incorporate into their healthier diet.
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COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
FEAST provides various workshops throughout the year open to program graduates and community members to support ongoing learning and skills development in their journey towards health. Activities may include Zumba classes, nutrition education, cooking demonstrations, meditation and/or mindfulness, urban agriculture and agroecology, economic and/or legal resources and other topics promoting the usage of social service resources available in the community.
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HEALTH EDUCATOR TRAINING
FEAST’s leadership training and curriculum licensing model allow individuals and organizations to bring FEAST programming in their communities, to improve the health and well-being of its members. Through a 3-day training, individuals become certified as FEAST Health Educators, and are equipped to facilitate our Wellness Program. Through a curriculum licensing model, Health Educators and organizations gain access to our full 16-week curriculum and teaching materials, and all of the support they need to successfully run their own FEAST groups.
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WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY
“I feel supported knowing there are other people in our community that support and encourage us to make healthy changes to our eating habits”
- Alma, FEAST graduate
“I am so grateful to FEAST for providing support through the group check-ins, access to fruit and vegetables, and for helping me create a set of healthy goals. Through this program, I changed my life for the better, forever.”
- Judith, FEAST graduate and group leader
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
Through Food, Education, Access and Support, Together we can create a more Nourishing Life
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