As seen in TIME:  We are on the road to integrating into healthcare! https://time.com/7005880/americans-prescriptions-healthy-food-is-medicine/

Many people are not able to eat healthy fruits and vegetables because those foods simply aren’t available or affordable where they live. Vouchers 4 Veggies is changing that. 

We distribute vouchers by working through local health clinics and community-based organizations that participants already know and trust, who also teach them about nutrition. Participants then use vouchers to make their own purchasing decisions at our partner stores in their own neighborhoods. With more customers buying fresh produce, local vendors increase the variety and quality of fresh fruits and vegetables they offer. 

The program was founded as EatSF in 2015 by Dr. Hilary Seligman, nationally recognized at the intersection between food insecurity and health. The program is part of University of California, San Francisco. Since its launch, V4V has achieved rapid success, empowering tens of thousands of people to increase their fruit and vegetable consumption by at least one serving per day and infusing millions of dollars of produce purchases into food insecure neighborhoods. V4V has established strong multi-sector collaborations that include 200+ community distribution points for vouchers and a robust network of 40+ corner stores, grocers, and farmer’s markets that accept the vouchers.

V4V is recognized as an evidence-based model for creating equitable local food systems and has been optimized for national replication, including programs in Los Angeles, rural California, Colorado, Virginia, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Please visit our website to learn about the breadth of our programs, research, and impact.  https://eatsfvoucher.org/

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