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Pioneering Healthier Communities, West Michigan

A Community Response to the Food Environment

Denise Cyzman, MS, RD

Diabetes Council at the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors in East Lansing, Michigan, cyzman{at}chronicdisease.org

Janet Wierenga, BS

YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Julie Sielawa, BSM

YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids, in Grand Rapids, Michigan

In 2005, the Pioneering Healthier Communities initiative prompted the creation of the Activate West Michigan coalition. One of its earliest objectives was to increase fruit and vegetable consumption for people who lived in low-income, African American, and Latino communities in urban Grand Rapids. Because the existing food environment created barriers to this objective, the coalition created community and schoolyard gardens and farmers' markets. By 2008, the Activate West Michigan coalition had begun to improve the food environment by establishing nine community and schoolyard gardens and five farmers' markets.

Key Words: food environment • social determinants of health • health disparities • nutrition • fruits and vegetables • community gardens • farmers' markets • coalition • case study

Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 10, No. 2 Suppl, 146S-155S (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1524839908331269
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