SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – An event featuring findings from the South Dakota Health and Nutrition Collaborative\u2019s statewide food and nutrition security assessment is coming to Sioux Falls on September 24.<\/p>\n
Jenn Folliard with the SD Healthy Nutrition Collaborative joined Dakota News Now with the details.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a project of the South Dakota Health and Nutrition Collaborative. We\u2019re forty organizations that are statewide and are interested in improving food and nutrition security in the state,\u201d said Folliard.<\/p>\n
\u201cRapid City has done a great assessment. Sioux Falls had a great assessment. But we really needed to get a better understanding of what food and nutrition security looked like. So, we pulled together research funding through a variety of different funding sources to look at a lot of different data sets, to do a survey, and to do focus groups and interviews across the state to better understand what food and nutrition security looks like in every community in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SDHNC did a survey that received 500 responses from South Dakota, with the majority of respondents stating that affordability was their primary concern. Folliard also mentioned that 30% of those respondents stated that they were skipping meals to help stretch their budgets.<\/p>\n
The SDHNC is holding an event tonight in Aberdeen at Avera St. Luke\u2019s at 5:30 pm, and another event tomorrow night at the USD Campus in Sioux Falls, starting at 5:30 pm.<\/p>\n
These events will provide attendees with a meal and a chance to learn more about the research done by the SDHNC. The events are free to attend and open to the public.<\/p>\n