Given today's pressing need for great nutrition education, alongside accessible and affordable healthy food, we set out to ask the question: how is our government responding? This question led to over two years of research into the landscape of federal, state and local investment in nutrition education. The resulting reports focus on the federal, state, and city nutrition education initiatives which New York State and City agencies administered in federal fiscal year (FY) 2016. To determine the landscape of nutrition education initiatives, we reviewed relevant legal, programmatic, and funding data sources. We also conducted interviews with dozens of key city agency officials, local providers, researchers, and advocates.  The report outlines the legislative, political, and regulatory processes that create, the source(s) that fund, and the agencies that administer these initiatives. We discuss the federal, state, and city health, social service, education, elder, child care, and agricultural policies that authorize nutrition education initiatives. We also describe supports for, and barriers to, publicly supported nutrition education in New York City. 

Report Goals:

1. Help state and city agency and elected officials, local providers, researchers, and advocates navigate the landscape of public nutrition education by: Illustrating federal and state initiatives that can support nutrition education; Providing a snapshot of state and/or city-administered initiatives that can support nutrition education in federal fiscal year (FY) 2016; Describing supports for, and barriers to, public nutrition education in New York State and City.
2. Recommend ways to expand the scope, reach, and sustainability of nutrition education; enhance local providers’ capacity; and align and elevate publicly supported nutrition education in New York City.

Ultimately, these reports provide road maps to strengthen the public systems that can help New Yorkers eat well throughout their lives, in all of the places where they live, work, learn, worship, and play. 

Reports:

_{Support for this work was provided by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth). The mission of NYSHealth is to expand health insurance coverage, increase access to high-quality health care services, and improve public and community health. The views presented here are not necessarily those of the New York State Health Foundation or its directors, officers, and staff.}