Explanation
BACKGROUND: To address certain public health issues affecting residents on the Southside of Columbus, Columbus Public Health (CPH) has developed the Southside Health and Wellness Navigation Project. The purpose of this Project is to use a holistic approach to help families who are not well connected to health and social services, and are living in crisis mode. CPH will be relying on help from various social service agencies to assist with this initiative.
In April 2012, Community Development for All People, a not-for-profit agency, launched a new, innovative health and wellness initiative called Healthy Eating and Living (HEAL). The purpose of HEAL is to accompany low and moderate income persons as they set health goals and establish action plans to achieve improved health outcomes for themselves and members of their households. This venture has been designed and implemented in collaboration with other partners that include Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH), United Way, Mid-Ohio Food Bank, The Ohio State University, and Mt. Carmel Health. The unique element of HEAL is offering peer health coaches as one incentive to encourage and sustain involvement by participating households.
While there are many elements that comprise the HEAL Initiative, one is "Cooking classes, food tasting and cooking demonstrations." A demonstration kitchen is being built in the CD4AP ministry center. People will be invited to participate in cooking classes to learn healthy techniques for cooking for their families and to manage their own chronic diseases, and to experience different foods. CD4AP is in need of $45,000 to complete a $195,000 renovation that creates a commercial kitchen at their facility. $150,000 has already been secured for this project. The kitchen is a key component of the Healthy Eating and Living (HEAL) Initiative.
The purpose of this ordinance is to appropriate $45,000 for the Southside Health and Wellness Navigation Project. Funds a...
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