Moving from recognition to action, this session explores how dietitians can collaborate with food banks and community organizations to implement food as medicine initiatives in practice.

Participants will examine the expanding role of food banks as partners in advancing nutrition security and improving health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions. The session will highlight the Feeding America National Office's National Strategy for Food is Medicine, a framework that integrates nutrition access, education, and medical nutrition therapy across the charitable food and healthcare sectors.

Attendees will also learn how food banks nationwide are adapting this strategy into sustainable, evidence-informed models such as produce prescription programs, medically tailored food boxes and medically tailored meals.

Featuring speakers from the Feeding America National Office and local level food banks, this session will include panel discussions and small group activities. Participants will leave with practical approaches for connecting food-insecure patients to community-based nutrition support and for fostering stronger partnerships between healthcare and food banks to improve patient care and reduce barriers to healthy eating.