ALL IN Alameda County Hosts Funders Briefing Highlighting Community Collaboratives
 ALL IN Alameda County, in partnership with the Hellman Foundation, and reimagine collective published a report on how four grassroots organizations in Oakland, CA organically came together to hold space for their communities at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. From this collaborative work, these organizations collectively urge funders, government, other grassroots organizations, and community to reimagine how they work towards social change. On February 9th, ALL IN hosted a funders briefing with the four grassroots organizations to lift up how their collaboration emerge, their collective impact, and concrete ways in which stakeholders can rethink the distribution of resources in support of community-led transformation. Check out the full interactive report here. A link to the recorded funders briefing will be shared in the coming weeks.
Healthy Food Healthy Families Update
The Fruitvale/San Antonio Neighborhood Steering Committee (NSC) features members and directors of nonprofit organizations from the Fruitvale and San Antonio neighborhoods, community residents, County and City department representatives, and leaders from local health clinics. Since 2018, ALL IN convened and facilitated the NSC meetings at different community partner sites and virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Having been the backbone for the past couple of years, the focus in 2021 was to transition the NSC from an ALL IN to a community led convening that addressed topics in addition to healthy food access and healthy eating.
Through a series of meetings and conversations with NSC members, potential partners, and organizations in Oakland the NSC decided to merge with the Oakland Thrives’ Community Outreach Working Group (COWG) in 2022. ALL IN will continue to be an active partner in the merged group and will support the ongoing evolution of this community-led strategy. This meeting is open to all who are interested in joining; if you’d like to be added to their mailing list and to receive future meeting invites, please contact hello@oaklandthrives.org.
Healthy Food Champions (HFC) are community residents who have a passion for promoting healthy eating and providing access to nutritious and culturally relevant food. There are currently 5 Healthy Food Champions, all women of color from either the Fruitvale or San Antonio neighborhoods working through La Clinica’s Community Engagement Hub. In 2021, La Clinica received funding directly from the Hellman Foundation to sustain and scale the Healthy Food Champion model into other health clinics and communities. To promote the HFC model, the HFCs in partnership with Physician Champion, Dr. Emma Steinberg, and ALL IN developed a HFC Toolkit and HFC Brochure. As of December 2021, the HFCs have presented their toolkit to the Contra Costa and Solano County Promotoras and the Fruitvale/San Antonio Neighborhood Steering Committee.
Over the next several months, ALL IN will grow its place-based work under Healthy Food, Healthy Families into Unincorporated Alameda County and South Hayward.
Recipe4Health Expands to Hayward Wellness Center and Bay Area Community Health
We are excited to launch the newest expansions of ALL IN Alameda County’s Recipe4Health initiative with Alameda Health System – Hayward Wellness Center and Bay Area Community Health – Liberty Clinic. The aim of Recipe4Health is to use “food as medicine” to 1) improve health 2) address food security, and 3) improve health and racial equity.
The Recipe4Health initiative uses three “ingredients” to improve the health of patients and the community: a Food Farmacy, a Behavioral Pharmacy, and Food as Medicine training for health center staff.
Through Recipe4Health, ALL IN is working with clinics to expand Food Farmacies into a clinically integrated prescription program, which connects patients with prescriptions for 16-weeks of local, regeneratively-grown produce delivered straight to their doorsteps. The Behavioral Pharmacy Group Medical Visits provides patients with nutritional and behavioral coaching, social connection, physical activity, and stress reduction.
Further, ALL IN staff provide clinical training to clinic prescribers featuring eight-hours of clinical nutrition education and workflow integration training to all staff.
We’d like to thank our partners at Dig Deep Farms for providing the food to fill the prescriptions & our partners at Open Source Wellness for leading the nutritional and behavioral pharmacy group visit.
Thank you to our funders at Alameda Alliance for Health, U.S. Department of Agriculture Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program, the Hellman Foundation, and Stupski Foundation for your generous support!
Finally, thank you to our existing Recipe4Health partnerships with Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Native American Health Center, and Lifelong Ashby Health Center.
Recipe4Health: In the News
Check out the news features on ALL IN's award-winning initiative, Recipe4Health!
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ALL IN Steering Committee meetings are held on the third Wednesday of the month from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ALL IN Steering Committee meetings will be held over Zoom. Please check the Alameda County Board of Supervisors' Committee Calendar for the most up-to-date agendas and Zoom conference links.
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