FoodCorps Connecticut

FoodCorps is a nationwide team of leaders that connects kids to real food and helps them grow up healthy.

Mission
Through the hands and minds of emerging leaders, FoodCorps strives to give all youth an enduring relationship with healthy food.

Overview
FoodCorps Connecticut is part of a national service program that places emerging leaders into limited-resource communities for a year of hands-on community-building through creating healthy food environments for children. They do this by building and tending school gardens, conducting nutrition education, and connecting local farms with school meal programs.

Description
The Connecticut FoodCorps Service Program is a new project of the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension. The project is coordinated by the Sustainable Food Systems Educator, the Connecticut FoodCorps Fellow, five leading organizations working to improve school food environments, and many other fabulous partners across the state and nation.

General Information
For the 2012-2013 Program Year we have five service members serving in Connecticut. Each service member is hosted by an organization within the community they serve. Currently, these service site organizations are: New Haven Ecology Project/Common Ground, New Haven; Norwich Public School System, Norwich; Windham Regional Community Council, Windham; Wholesome Wave, Bridgeport; and Community Health Center, New Britain.