Healthy Hampshire

For the Hampshire County Food Policy Council (HCFPC), community leadership is at the heart of their work.

Posted on Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 1/5/2022

The mission is to cultivate shared governance and a county-wide network that builds the power of community voice to make food policies more equitable, honor diverse cultures, and help local food economies to flourish. As a result, developing a new and very different approach to governance for the Council has been critically important work for… [Read More]

Healthy Hampshire sends team to Johns Hopkins initiative

Posted on Monday, July 19th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 7/19/2021

Healthy Hampshire County Food Policy Council Startup Circle members Talya Sogoba and Kia Aoki have been chosen to participate in the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Food Policy Council Community Invest in racially and economically just food systems community of practice. Participating as a team, Talya and Kia become part of a two… [Read More]

Mobile markets make local food accessible

Posted on Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Alexis Breiteneicher, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 6/16/2021

As summer approaches, several nonprofits are cleaning out their vans, mapping out routes, and coordinating with farmers for the start of their mobile markets. It is exactly what you’d imagine — a small farmers market packed up in a van and driven around to communities. Caitlin Marquis, of the nonprofit Healthy Hampshire, which is supporting… [Read More]

Hilltown Mobile Market on the move in 2019

Posted on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Caitlin Marquis, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 7/16/2019

Chesterfield, MA – A new Hilltown Mobile Market will be opening this summer, thanks to a collaborative effort between Healthy Hampshire, Hilltown Community Development, the Hilltown Community Health Center, and several Hilltown farms. The Mobile Market—which will visit sites in Huntington and Worthington—will run for 10 weeks from July 25th through September 27th. Everyone is… [Read More]

Health care systems, including Cooley Dickinson, turn to a ‘new’ old medicine: healthy food

Posted on Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Shira Schoenberg, Masslive/Republican
Date: 6/23/2019
Link: Complete Article

A few times a week, Katie Macomber, medical home care coordinator at Amherst Pediatrics, writes a “prescription” for patients and their families. Macomber is not a doctor, and the prescription is not for medicine. Rather, it is a form from the Amherst Survival Center, designed to look like a prescription, that sends families to the… [Read More]

Frozen yogurt and a chance to celebrate working for healthy communities

Posted on Thursday, October 25th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathy Levesque, Date: 10/25/2018

Northampton, MA – Over 40 representatives from a diverse array of Healthy Hampshire community health projects to promote healthy food and active lifestyles assembled at the Collaborative for Educational Services on a recent sunny afternoon in October, to celebrate their work and look forward to the next phase. Participants included Public Health, Planning and Council… [Read More]

Healthy Hampshire Funds Walk Friendly Community Projects

Posted on Thursday, March 16th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 3/16/2017

Northampton, MA – Local municipalities and organizations will get a boost through a partnership with Healthy Hampshire to promote infrastructure projects, policies and maps that promote walkability and healthy town center design. Healthy Hampshire will provide funding and staff assistance to support projects in twelve communities, including Amherst, Belchertown, Blandford, Chester, Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Huntington,… [Read More]

Healthy Hampshire’s Sarah Bankert interviewed for “Local Hero Spotlight” series on WRSI

Posted on Tuesday, March 8th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 3/3/2016
Link: Complete Article

Healthy Hampshire’s Sarah Bankert was interviewed by WRSI’s Monte Belmonte and Phil Korman for the Local Hero Spotlight on February 29th. Bankert shared details about Healthy Hampshire’s work with the SNAP & Save program and the Tuesday Market – bringing additional shopping power to each dollar spent, and delivering more shoppers to the market for… [Read More]

Editorial: Healthy Hampshire shines welcome light on challenges

Posted on Friday, March 20th, 2015 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Editorial Staff, Hampshire Gazette
Date: 3/19/15
Link: Complete Article

People living in the residential East Hadley Road neighborhood off Route 116 south of downtown Amherst face challenges in their daily routines that are not part of the lives of many other residents. Because of inconvenient bus schedules and tricky access to the nearby Norwottuck Rail Trail, a seemingly simple task like getting to stores… [Read More]

Gauging the need

Posted on Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Scott Merzbach, The Hampshire Gazette
Date: 3/17/15
Link: Complete Article

AMHERST, MA – The Health Department commissioned the regional Healthy Hampshire program of the Collaborative for Educational Services to get data that highlights the needs for the 2,000 or so residents living in about 780 units and focuses on ways of easing their access to food and fitness and promoting a healthy lifestyle. Sarah Bankert,… [Read More]