New York State Healthy Farms, Healthy People Meeting, Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Full Press Release
The
Rural Health Network of South Central New York is honored to be hosting
the New York State Healthy Farms, Healthy People Meeting on October 16,
2012, in Binghamton, New York as the first day of the two-day Growing
Health 2012 program. Participants from throughout the state will
register by region and spend the day considering four critical New York
State Healthy Farms, Healthy People issues: 1. NYS Agricultural Capacity
and Infrastructure; 2. Individual and Consumer Access to NYS Food
Products; 3. Business and Institutional Access to NYS Food Products and;
4. NYS Food Coalitions, Networks, and Collaborations.
State
and national farm, food, and health leaders will facilitate these four
concurrent sessions throughout the day. Regional groups will participate
in each of the four sessions. David Haight, New York State Director of
the American Farmland Trust will provide a keynote presentation, and our
lead facilitator for the day will be Mary McFadden, Supervising Public
Health Educator, Broome County Health Department and Rural Health
Network Board Member.
The
New York State Healthy Farms, Healthy People Meeting will help those
with little or no experience accessing NYS-produced food to do so
efficiently and effectively. The meeting will also provide an
opportunity for those with NYS food production and procurement
experience to learn more about opportunities available to improve
efficiency and effectiveness. Finally, the meeting will connect
stakeholders within regions, to improve networks leading to increased
efficiency in the procurement and use of NYS food products to improve
health, food security, and local economies.
Regions
will meet at the end of the day and then report out in a plenary
session on one or two actions each region can take to increase
utilization of NYS agricultural and food products to improve health.
Facilitators will also meet at the end of the day and report on policy
recommendations that would help address barriers and increase
opportunities to utilize more NYS agricultural and food products to
improve health. These policy recommendations will be shared with the
NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets, New York State Department of
Health, the United States Department of Agriculture, and other
appropriate governmental and advocacy groups.
This
meeting is a part of the Healthy Farms, Healthy People (HFHP) State
Meetings Learning Community. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has supported the learning community through its
cooperative agreement with the National Network of Public Health
Institutes (NNPHI). NNPHI has provided funding to selected state
meetings and contracted with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade
Policy (IATP) to provide technical assistance to meeting organizers. The
views expressed during this meeting do not necessarily represent the
views of NNPHI, IATP, CDC, or the Healthy Farms, Healthy People
Coalition.
New
York State Healthy Farms, Healthy People partners include: The Center
for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship, The Food and Health
Network of South Central New York, and The New York State Department of
Health.
For more information about the NYS Healthy Farms, Healthy People Meeting, please go to: http://growinghealth.rhnscny.
