Assess your community’s readiness and capacity for a PSE intervention in one of our six areas.

Assessments are available for Ohio and Wisconsin!

Farmers Market

Farmers Market PSE interventions include strategies focused on:

  • Getting Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) machines at markets to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits
  • Advertising about SNAP/EBT at markets
  • Promoting incentive programs that increase the amount of benefit dollars that shoppers can use to purchase fruits and vegetables at markets
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Last updated January 2024

Healthy Eating in Childcare

Healthy Eating in Childcare PSE interventions include strategies to transform places where children learn and play. Examples include:

  • Promoting school gardens
  • Increasing salad bar activities at schools
  • Including parents in childcare menu planning
  • Limiting sugar-sweetened beverages and fried food
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Last updated October 2023

Healthy Food Retail

Healthy food retail PSE interventions include strategies to improve the dietary behaviors of low-income residents by:

  • Providing healthier food options at corner stores or small stores
  • Advertising prompts to promote healthy food choices
  • Including healthier food in vending machines
  • Healthy check-out aisles (i.e. no candy in aisles)
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Last updated August 2023

Farm To School

Farm to School PSE interventions include a range of activities for promoting, procuring, serving, and teaching about local foods in schools, such as:

  • Promoting school gardens
  • Increasing salad bar activities at schools
  • Increasing locally grown food purchased for school cafeteria meal preparation
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Last updated March 2024

Food Pantry

Food Pantry PSE interventions include strategies focused on:

  • Creating a welcoming food pantry environment
  • Seeking out community resources to secure fresh produce
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Last updated August 2022

K-12 Schools

Healthy eating in K-12 school PSE interventions include strategies focused on:

  • Enacting school-based healthy food and beverage policies
  • Completing school lunchroom assessments
  • Including nutrition education in classroom curriculums
  • Providing healthier choices in the school food environment (i.e., salad bars)
  • Empowering parents and families to support healthier choices in the home.
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Last updated March 2023