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Robin Schow
Research Assistant at University of Minnesota, Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute

If you measure it, better understanding will come. At least that’s the approach Robin Schow, Research Assistant at the University of Minnesota’s Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute (HFHL), is taking with HFHL’s two-year food skills assessment study. Funded by a Cargill Foundation grant, the study seeks to establish a food skills baseline to help identify and measure food skills gaps in our local communities. “Our end goal is to come away with a tool to assess food skills,” said Robin. “There’s a lot of programming out there that purport food skills lead to better health, but no one really knows …

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The Minnesota Food Charter Network is supported by the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota Department of Health, University of Minnesota Extension, and the General Mills Foundation. This material was funded in part by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP – with funds received from and through the Minnesota Department of Human Services. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. The Minnesota Food Charter Network is hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute.