Nutrition Education for Food Is Medicine Programs
Food Smarts for FIM
Deliver compassionate nutrition and cooking education, without building it yourself.
Food Smarts for FIM gives food banks, pantries, and community-based organizations a ready-to-use eLearning library for produce prescription and medically tailored grocery work. Participants learn online, on their own schedule, with support from your nutrition educator, registered dietitian, or coach. Leah's Pantry has built nutrition education around trauma-informed principles since 2006 — content that recognizes how stress and adversity shape health behavior, avoids shaming and blame, and centers participant dignity and choice.
A tested materials library: Lessons, videos, recipes, and handouts from Food Smarts and EatFresh.org, rebuilt for self-paced learning.
Yours to customize: Reorder modules and add your own content for the communities and languages you serve.
Virtual and asynchronous: No classroom, no fixed schedule. Reaches rural participants and people juggling caregiving.
Completion you can report: Track completion by participant and tie it to incentives, vouchers, or clinical follow-up.
According to the largest food-as-medicine evaluation to date, conducted by the Center for Nutrition and Health Impact and Feeding America (Calloway et al., 2026), participants who attended three or more dietitian-led nutrition education sessions saw the greatest clinical improvements — in blood sugar, cholesterol, and weight — of any group studied. The same evaluation found that dignity mattered as much as delivery: respectful, non-judgmental interactions significantly deepened engagement and improved outcomes. Nutrition education isn't a nice-to-have in food-as-medicine programs — done with trust and respect, the data says it's the difference-maker.
Feeding America & Center for Nutrition & Health Impact (2026), FAM3 Cumulative Report
Pricing
As an early offering, we're working closely with each organization to shape an arrangement that fits your program and budget. Reach out to discuss the right fit.
Help Us Build It With You
Food Smarts for FIM is a new offering in active development, and we're growing it in the open. Our earliest partners are shaping the platform as we build — testing features, sharing what works, and steering our roadmap. Join us in this collaborative phase and your organization's needs will directly influence what we create next.
Trauma-Informed Nutrition Security Since 2006
Reach out to Carrie Richerson, Director of Training, to bring Food Smarts for FIM to your organization.
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