What is the REACH Fellowship?
The REACH Fellowship is a 6-month program that seeks to increase access to networks and resources among emergent leaders from Black and Hispanic/Latino/a/e communities, who are innovating food systems change. The REACH Fellowship will be modeled after the Nourishing Power Fellowship. The Swetland Center and Catalytic Change Link will engage local food justice leaders to ensure produce prescription programs are culturally tailored to increase reach among Black and Hispanic/Latino/a/e individuals in Cuyahoga County.
Our goal is to connect clinical sites (that have an existing produce prescription program or are interested in starting one) with local growers, nutrition educators, food product makers to create a framework for a produce prescription program to pitch at graduation in June 2025.
What are the goals of the REACH Fellowship?
- Grow your vision for a produce prescription program that is culturally relevant for Black and Hispanic/Latino/a/e patients
- Create an action plan
- Increase your knowledge of produce prescriptions
- Expand your leadership capacity
- Grow your network of supporters
- Are you a Black and/or Hispanic/Latino/a/e farmer, food product maker, or nutrition educator?
OR
- Are you a healthcare professional interested in produce prescriptions or food is medicine?
Apply for the REACH Fellowship and work with an assigned teammate to design a produce prescription program in Cuyahoga County that is culturally tailored to increase reach amongst Black and Hispanic/Latino/a/e patients. The time commitment is about 5 hours per week.
The 2025 Cohort of the REACH Fellowship will be composed of:
- 4 teams (2 people per team)
- Each team will have 1 healthcare professional & 1 Black/Hispanic/Latino/a/e grower, food product maker, or nutrition educator.
- All applicants will be invited to a “Meet & Greet” on October 1st, to mingle with other applicants and inform the staff of their top choices for a teammate. Based on their responses, select candidates will be invited for an interview. The final 8 candidates will be paired with their Fellowship teammate before the first workshop in February 2025.
Learn more about the opportunity at the Info Session on September 5th, 2024 (6-7pm on Zoom). Sign up to attend here.
- Application Open: August 14th - September 22nd, 2024
- Meet & Greet: October 1st, 2024 (6-8pm)
- Interviews: October 7th - October 18th, 2024
- Cohort Selected: November 1st, 2024
- Workshops: February 5th - June 10th, 2025 (Every 2 weeks on Tuesday from 5:30-8:00pm)
- Graduation: June 24th, 2025
Contact reach@case.edu with questions.
The REACH Fellowship is modeled after the Nourishing Power Fellowship, part of the Nourishing Neighborhoods, Empowering Communities study conducted by Case Western Reserve University in partnership with Neighborhood Connections and The FARE Project. The REACH project is funded by a grant (#6 NU58DP007747-01-01) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. Our partners on the project are Better Health Partnership, Catalytic Change Link, Cleveland Fresh LLC, and Produce Perks Midwest. This project is funded from December 30, 2023 to September 29, 2028.