Best Practices – Provider

Practice: This Supported Living Provider enrolls the individuals she supports in the Excess Food Farms Across Florida program http://www.miamidade.gov/district13/advisories/2015-11-09-farm-share-food-distribution.asp. The website posts dates and locations when individuals can come and get free fresh produce from local farms. Provider facilitates setting up transportation to and from the locations on these dates.

Who Benefits? ​The individuals benefit from the free and fresh local produce.

How?Any individual on a fixed and limited food budget would benefit and this could also be a project for daily living skills training to go get the produce, and to then cook a healthy dish/meal.