Through engaging community-based groups, institutional partners and potential employers, Inside Out’s collaborative effort works to provide food and nutrition services and supports both inside and outside the prison system and creates employment opportunities to increase access to healthy food and improved health. Partners in North Philadelphia currently include the Philadelphia Department of Prisons Office of Sustainability, the City of Philadelphia Reentry Coalition, city officials, Temple University and national organizations working in this space.
The program’s goals are to:
- Create and sustain a healthy food environment for formerly incarcerated individuals;
- Promote the greening of prisons and communities through growing food and composting;
- Provide nutrition education, along with policy, systems and environmental changes at the prison and in target communities to which the formerly incarcerated live;
- Offer workforce development training related to the food service industry; and
- Develop a startup catering business for the formerly incarcerated and increase job opportunities for those completing culinary training.
FEATURED RESOURCES
- Bringing the Movement for Food Justice Inside Prisons and Jails (Impact Justice)
- Strategies to Optimize Food and Nutrition Inside Correctional Facilities (CSPI)
- Four Ways We’re Advancing Nutrition in Prisons (Pennsylvania Prison Society)
- From Farm to Corrections, One Harvest at a Time (Impact Justice)
