Foodcare: Milwaukee’s Food and Healthcare Coalition
The FoodCare Coalition is a collective of community-based and healthcare organizations, convened by the Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin, who seek to build capacity for food systems and health systems to partner. The initiative intends to strengthen community across food banks, food pantries and primary care clinics to increase food security and health of children and youth.
Data You Can Use serves at the data partner of the FoodCare Coalition, aiding evaluate the coalition’s progress in building relationships between food and healthcare sectors.
2024 Evaluation Report
In 2024, Data You Can Use conducted an evaluation of the FoodCare Coalition’s work to build relationships and trust between food-related community-based organizations and healthcare organizations. The primary evaluation method was the Collaborative Factors Survey, a survey administered annually to coalition members to guage the strength of the collective’s relationships, trust, and ability to work together. In addition to evaluation the partnership, the report outlines the activities and progress of the Coalition between its creation in 2020 and 2024.
2024 Data Chat Report – Food Access in Milwaukee
In Fall 2024, Data You Can Use (DYCU) convened three data chats with Milwaukee residents to discuss food access and health. Using the model of small, focused conversations called “data chats”, DYCU partnered with community organizations to learn from Milwaukee families about the state of food access in the city. Understanding the experiences of Milwaukee families working to provide healthy food and quality health care for their children will help guide the FoodCare Coalition in their efforts to create thriving conditions for these families.
Questions?
For questions about the FoodCare Coalition, contactGeeta Wadhwani, Program Leader for Food Security and Medical Home at Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin : [email protected]
For questions about the Evaluation or Data Chat reports, contact Amanda Beavin: [email protected]