Open Hand Atlanta Inc.

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“Open hand atlanta, inc. Developed goals, used peer comparisons and benchmarking using the guidestar website.”

“Open hand atlanta, inc. Developed goals, used peer comparisons and benchmarking using the guidestar website.”

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“The 2018 form 990 has been amended to update the narratives of the program service accomplishments on page 2, part iii, line 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d.”

“Open hand community nutrition programs include: a.in 2018, open hand provided 1,106,386 home-delivered meals and market basket meal bags to approximately 4097 clients per our county contracts. Our service area for these senior meal contracts includes fulton, fayette, clayton, cherokee, oglethorpe, and clarke counties, in addition to sustaining our programs to serve children through youth meal and nutrition programs. B.the prepared meals portion of the program provides for one, two or three freshly cooked therapeutic meals, combined with healthy snacks or supplements, to meet the daily nutrition needs of low-income men, women and children who are dealing with a critical, chronic, or terminal disease. Other qualifying individuals may include dependent children of any open hand client, regardless of their health status. Nutrition education is delivered on a regular basis with the meals, as well as in group and clinical settings. Menus are developed and products are selected by open hand's registered dietitians, and include therapeutic and preferential menu options. C.open hand's market basket program provides a weekly supply of both nonperishable groceries, fresh fruit and vegetables to low-income, medically-eligible clients who are empowered to prepare their own healthy meals with nutrition guidance provided by open hand registered dietitians. This accommodates a supply of fresh fruits and vegetables including more locally grown produce. D.in addition, open hand provided approximately 57,194 emergency nutrition supplements (ens), in the form of meal replacement snacks and nutrition supplements, to low-income, medically-eligible men, women and children, often during extended waits for their health care appointments. Patients who have had dental procedures may also receive mechanical soft meals provided through this program. E.central to open hand's comprehensive approach to nutrition, clients are assessed at intake and offered consistent nutrition education by open hand registered dietitians (rds), which includes printed nutrition education materials and, depending upon their assessment, individual or group nutrition coaching sessions. These group sessions have a community or public health focus, and include topics such as portion control, healthy eating, hands-on food preparation, physical activity, and disease self- management. Client counseling sessions include individualized nutrition assessment, diagnosis, education, and goal-setting. Follow-up reinforcement is provided by open hand rds, and may include monitoring of client health metrics, nutrition education, assessment of health goal progressions, referral(s) to additional support services, and/or phone consultations. F.open hand provided medical nutritional therapy (mnt) to 675 clients in 2018. Mnt is prescribed by a clinician, targets a specific medical condition, and includes a nutrition diagnosis, therapy and counseling services - all performed by open hand registered dietitians (rds). Designed by the american academy of nutrition and dietetics, mnt includes a specific plan of assessment, nutrition diagnoses, intervention, evaluation/monitoring, documentation, and communication with client's health care provider. This service is available to men, women and children who have a nutrition-sensitive chronic disease and who are committed to improving their health through better food choices and behavior modification. G.open hand is georgia's lead partner for the nationally acclaimed cooking matters nutrition education program - six weeks of classes utilizing an evidence-based curriculum originally designed by share our strength. The open hand cooking matters team teaches participants how to prepare healthy, tasty meals on a limited budget - offering practical, hands-on instruction for low-income individuals and families such as meal preparation, grocery shopping, food budgeting that empowers participants to make healthier choices, even with very limited resources. Cooking m”

“Good measure meals (gmm), open hand's fee-for-service social enterprise, offers nutritious, gourmet-quality meal plans to people who wish to manage chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension or obesity, and people looking to improve or maintain a healthy lifestyle through better nutrition. This program extends open hand's mission across the full socio-economic spectrum, making an even greater impact on our community. In 2018, an average of 450 clients each week received a total of 255,890 healthy meals through this program. Nutrition services and wellness programming continue to provide nutrition education to customers and corporate partners, providing 211 individual or group nutrition assessments/counseling on a fee-for-service basis at open hand, with an additional 145 nutrition phone consults with a gmm registered dietitian. Good measure meals' catering extension of the social enterprise secured catering vendor contracts primarily in the corporate sector in 2018, and served 170 catered events.”

“In 2018, open hand extended the reach of our comprehensive nutrition programming by achieving several key goals: a.open hand and good measure meals served a combined total of approximately 16,610 clients in 2018. This includes more than 1,807,861 home-delivered meals, meals provided in a congregate setting, as well as meal replacements/supplements. In 2018, our registered dietitians worked directly with 7,136 clients, providing extensive nutrition education ranging from the instruction on the nutritional value of the foods in their diet to calorie balance and diabetes management, conducting home nutrition assessments, and providing in-clinic medical nutrition therapy (mnt). B.the following programmatic milestones were achieved in 2017: 1.prepared meals program - helping our clients better manage their chronic disease by providing medically tailored meals is always a primary focus for open hand. In 2018, approximately 66% of our clients reported spending fewer days in the hospital, 72% reported improvement in at least one health indicator and 33% reported they are able to take their medications with ease as a result of receiving prepared meals. In 2018 our client survey focused on measuring the impact of our services. In 2018, 25% of survey respondents self-identified as persons living with hiv/aids, 54% were seniors served through our home delivered meal program and 21% persons living with other chronic illnesses/disabilities. Of the clients that had a chronic condition, 36% reported they saw an improvement in their cholesterol levels, 40% saw an improvement in blood pressure, and 36% saw an improvement in blood sugar. 2.over the past year, 51% of our home-delivered meal clients had access to open hand registered dietitians (rds) to consult with them about their nutrition and health as it related to their chronic disease. 58% of clients found their consult with the dietitian to be very helpful. 3.market basket program - administered by open hand registered dietitians, the market basket program is an innovative solution to reduce food insecurity, increase intake of healthy foods, and increase nutrition knowledge in high-risk adults in the atlanta area. Open hand volunteers deliver program participants weekly market baskets which include fresh fruit and seasonal vegetables, along with nutrition education materials and recipes relevant to the contents of that week's basket to encourage consumption. Open hand provided 64,629 market basket meals to an average of 115 clients each week in 2018. 4.promoting nutrition and healthy living among low income individuals and families - open hand's cooking matters program had three overarching goals in fiscal year 2018: to continue growing the direct education programmatic work across georgia, support the purchase of produce with a healthy retail pilot at wayfield foods, and to support the fresh marta markets with a full social marketing campaign in metro atlanta. In 2018, open hand exceeded our programmatic goals by teaching of 99 cooking matters courses, leading 993 store tours, and reaching over 2,500 individuals and families with direct education. Additionally, open hand reached over 9,000 shoppers with the expanded healthy retail and the eat brighter campaign - a program piloted in 2017 with wayfield foods, a local grocery store chain. Open hand's social marketing campaign and nutrition education to support the fresh marta markets is estimated to have reached over 300,000 marta riders through the print and media campaign that was displayed on train and in station across atlanta. 5.youth and families nutrition & education - as part of an increased focus on outreach to youth and families, open hand developed the healthy balance kids menu which provides a fresh fruit or vegetable as part of every meal and exceeds usda nutritional standards. In 2018, the program served 51,275 healthy breakfasts, lunches, and snacks to an average of 780 at-risk children each day during a summer program in the”