The food box pilot

Food insecurity was increasingly recognized as a serious problem in the United States even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in 2018, our federally qualified health center (FQHC) used a modest amount of HRSA FQHC supplemental funding ($10,000) targeted at mental health expansion to test the feasibility of providing food for patients with documented depression and food insecurity. There is some evidence that proper nutrition helps with depression.