Join S4A researchers as they share the latest findings from a community-based intervention study examining the impact of delivering medically tailored groceries to low-income pregnant individuals. In this innovative program, grocery delivery is facilitated by a community health worker who also helps participants address broader social needs.

This multisector collaboration brings together several systems, including a local food bank, a Medicaid-supported community health worker HUB, Mom’s First (supported by public health), and academic researchers. The study evaluates how coordinated support across these partners can improve maternal health and household food access.

The two-group intervention S4A study compares:

• Medically tailored groceries, customized to each household’s dietary needs and preferences and delivered every other week, and
• $30 in cash, distributed every other week via CashApp.

Outcomes from these two approaches will be compared with each other and with a concurrent matched sample drawn from local Medicaid data. Key data collection points include baseline, 8 weeks after the intervention begins, at or near delivery, and 3 months postpartum.

This webinar will highlight the study design, implementation across community and health systems, and early insights into how food- and cash-based supports may influence maternal and household health during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

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This webinar is hosted by Systems for Action (S4A). S4A is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that is housed in the Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy. S4A research builds a Culture of Health by rigorously testing new ways of connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems.