Assignment Question

Food Insecurity

Prepare a 8 slides with speakers notes presenting the 100 percent point of purchase incentives for SNAP recipients to increase purchases and consumption of fruits and vegetables. Assignment instructions below. “Presentation should be appropriate for sharing in a public community forum. To this end, be sure to avoid technical jargon and acronyms. In the presentation, you will also use speaker’s notes.” The powerpoint is based on the following items from a Memorandum of Understanding.

1. Implementation of the 100 percent point of purchase incentives will be supplied by The Grocery Store. Incentives will be immediately awarded to SNAP recipients at point of purchase for qualifying fruit and vegetable items. Qualifying fruit and vegetable foods will be highlighted and marked at store locations to alert SNAP shoppers.

2. The Escambia County Department of Health will provide epidemiologists to collect, analysis, and report the findings of the incentive program. The qualifying purchases will be tracked through EBT card transactions and awarded incentives at point of purchase. The Grocery Store will provide transaction records for analysis.

3. Cost-benefit analysis of the program will be weighed against the burden of chronic disease related to poor nutrition on community health and the local healthcare systems through epidemiological studies conducted by the Escambia County Department of Health.