Stay tuned for upcoming resources and publications by signing up to our newsletter.
How Community Health Workers Support Food Access
Share Our Strength & National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW)
May 2026
A new national survey, How Community Health Workers Support Food Access, from Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry and the National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW), puts numbers behind what many already know: Community Health Workers (CHWs) are essential to connecting families with food. They are trusted, community-rooted navigators uniquely positioned to lead local solutions to hunger, with the right resources and support. The survey captured experiences from 231 CHWs and 50 employers across 45 states.
Calculating the Costs of Medicaid Food is Medicine (FIM) Interventions
Medicaid Food Security Network
February 2026
Though the cost savings of FIM are becoming more evident, their use in evaluating health insurance cost-effectiveness is still in its early stages. This brief provides a framework and methodology for calculating and analyzing the cost-effectiveness and policy implications of FIM programs. Its goal is to help policymakers and advocates apply established actuarial methods to conduct balanced analyses of the predicted costs and potential savings from FIM programs by providing a step-by-step guide to using a spreadsheet calculator that will estimate a FIM program’s impact on Medicaid capitation rates. This calculator covers cost assumptions, including the target population and meal/box costs, highlights considerations for offsetting costs and improving Return on Investment (ROI), and details how to test the cost limits of proposed FIM programs.
Food is Medicine is complementary with SNAP & WIC: A brief on comprehensive nutrition supports for Medicaid enrollees
Medicaid Food Security Network
October 2025
This brief highlights the value for state Medicaid systems in delivering comprehensive FIM programming alongside existing federal nutrition benefits and equips FIM advocates and practitioners with the necessary data to support this integrative approach. Read this brief to gain insights into current SNAP, WIC, and healthcare-funded FIM programs and how they improve the lives of families experiencing food and nutrition insecurity.
Food is Medicine: A State Medicaid Policy Toolkit
Food is Medicine Coalition and the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School
July 2024
This resource seeks to assist state policymakers looking to explore, adopt, or implement opportunities for addressing nutrition and severe, complex or chronic illness in state Medicaid populations. The Toolkit summarizes the legal underpinnings of each Medicaid authority and describes the nutrition services allowed, beneficiaries targeted, additional requirements, and application processes for each policy pathway.
Promising Medicaid-Based Strategies to Address the Food Needs of Children and Families
Medicaid Food Security Network
April 2024
This Promising Strategies document provides an overview of promising strategies that food security advocates can use to collaborate with Medicaid agencies to incorporate food strategies in Medicaid Managed Care (MCO) contracts, benefit design and waivers. These strategies are designed to address the full range of food needs of Medicaid enrollees, especially children and families.