Health Bucks

Bronx Health REACH helps promote the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Health Bucks program

through faith and community based organizations. Health Bucks are $2 coupons  shoppers use to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at New York City farmers’ markets year-round.  For every $2 spent at farmers’ markets using their SNAP or EBT card, participants receive $2 in Health Bucks coupons. The maximum Health Bucks per day that a participant can receive is $10. Faith and community  based organizations may apply  free of cost to receive Health Bucks  to distribute as incentives to participants in nutrition education or other health related activities.

To promote the distribution and redemption of Health Bucks, Bronx Health REACH provides funding to faith and community based organizations to conduct walking tours to local Bronx based farmer’s markets to encourage the purchase of fresh produce. We hold a training session so partners understand the program and best practices and have check in monthly meetings to assess progress and technical assistance.

Since 2015, Bronx Health REACH has provided technical assistance to partnering Bronx houses of worship on best practices for the promotion, distribution and redemption of distributed Health Bucks. Collectively our partners have distributed more than 22,000 Health Bucks, led 108 farmers’ market walking tours with more than 1,300 participants to encourage the use of the Health Bucks to purchase fresh produce at farmers’ markets.

Bronx Health REACH’s faith-based partners who have participated in the Health Bucks Program include:

Church Alive Community Church, Church of God of Prophecy, Church of God of Soundview, Cosmopolitan Church of the Lord Jesus, Calvary Baptist Church, Grand Concourse Seventh Day Adventist Church, Holy Spirit Church, Manna of Life Ministries, Al Masjidu Adam, Inc., Ash Shifaa, Inc., Darou Salam Community Inc., Masjid As Sabur, Masjid Sidiki-Unite my Ummah, Mount Zion CME Church, New Covenant Community Development Corporation, Resurrection and Life Pentecostal Church, Saint Augustine Our Lady Victory Church, St. Helena RC Church, Thessalonica Christian Church, Tremont United Methodist Church, Walker Memorial Baptist Church, Word of Life International, Inc., and Wings of Redemption Ministry.

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