Food Systems and Planning in Rhode Island

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The state of Rhode Island has strong healthy planning practices, offering an important platform for the implementation of Plan4Health. The Rhode Island Department of Health's Healthy Communities initiative identifies four components to advance healthy places: community assessment, community engagement, community health workers, and health equity. The community assessment guidance prominently features planning and the built environment as key levers for making healthy choices easier.

Over two years, planners and public health partners in Rhode Island implemented a small local project to expand urban gardens, providing the basis for statewide work on food systems planning.

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