In tens of thousands of homes across the state, our neighbors are struggling to make ends meet. Parents are forced to choose between buying adequate, nutritious food for their children and paying rent and other bills. Too many children start the day hungry, unable to focus on learning at school. And, after a lifetime of working, Colorado seniors are left to fend for themselves and face the question of whether to buy needed medication or food.
Food and nutrition are key components of total health. Hunger Free Colorado is the state’s leading anti-hunger organization leveraging the power of collaboration, system change, policy change and social change to end hunger in Colorado. We cannot do it alone. Partnerships with organizations like your selves is the key to impacting and ending hunger in Colorado. Help to ensure that your patients have access to adequate food and nutritional resources for optimal health.
You can help provide a solution!
- Talk to your patients about food access and food security
- Screen patients for food insecurity
- Provide patients with a Hunger Free Hotline prescription for food
- Send Hunger Free Colorado a secure, confidential, faxed referral, then our hotline navigators will follow up and connect patients to all of the food programs they may qualify
