Brighter Bites/Legacy Produce Rx Program

Brighter Bites & Legacy Community Health Produce Rx: Evaluating the Feasibility and Effectiveness of a School-based Clinical Nutrition Program With Produce Prescription

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the produce prescription program at improving weight status and obesity-related health outcomes of participants, to examine the impacts of the program on household food insecurity and nutrition security, to examine the impacts of the program on participating adolescents' dietary behavioral outcomes, their home nutrition environment and feeding practices and to examine the impacts of the program in reducing healthcare use and associated costs

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be a patient at one of the four Legacy Community Health School-based clinics in Galena Park, Texas
• BMI greater than or equal to 85th percentile
• reside within a 10-mile radius of Houston Food Bank
• Medicaid recipients or low-income uninsured
• parents must be able to read and write in English or Spanish to complete surveys
• patient and parents must confirm their willingness to complete the participant's well-child visit for the entire period of the study (approximately one year).

Exclusion Criteria:

• currently participating in Brighter Bites
• with a family member/sibling currently participating in Brighter Bites