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Overview of SAMHSA and USDA Foodand Mood ProjectSAMHSA Regions 7 & 8USDA-FNS Mountain Plains Region1
Federal Agency Partnership of the Food & Mood Project2
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)The Substance Abuse and Mental Health ServicesAdministration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services that leadspublic health efforts to advance the behavioral health ofthe nation. SAMHSA Offices and Centers providenational leadership and assistance for quality behavioralhealth services while supporting states, territories, tribes,communities, and local organizations through grantsand contract awards.Vision To provide leadership and resources – programs,policies, information and data, funding, and personnel– advance mental and substance use disorderprevention, treatment, and recovery services in orderto improve individual, community, and public health.Mission SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact ofsubstance abuse and mental illness on America'scommunities.3Behavioral Health isEssential to HealthPrevention WorksTreatment Is EffectivePeople Recover
USDA Food & Nutrition ServiceFood, Nutrition, and Consumer ServicesFarm Production & ConservationFood SafetyMarketing and Regulatory ProgramsNatural Resources and EnvironmentResearch, Education and EconomicsRural DevelopmentTrade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs4USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service partners withstate and tribal governments to administer 15Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs. FNSserves one in four Americans during the courseof a year. Our mission is to increase food securityand reduce hunger by providing children andlow-income people access to food, a healthfuldiet and nutrition education in a way thatsupports American agriculture and inspires publicconfidence. No American should have to gohungry. FNS also co-develops the DietaryGuidelines for Americans with the HHS Office ofDisease Prevention and Health Promotion.
What Regions Do We Serve?SAMHSA Regions 7 & 8Region 7: IA, KS, MO, NERegion 8: CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY5USDA Mountain Plains RegionCO, KS, MO, MT, NE, ND, SD, WY
Including the Tribes in Combined Regions Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute MountainReservation Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the SouthernUte Reservation Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet IndianReservation of Montana Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy'sReservation Fort Belknap Indian Community of the FortBelknap Reservation of Montana Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes of the Fort PeckIndian Reservation Crow Tribe of Montana Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the NorthernCheyenne Indian Reservation Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort BertholdReservation Spirit Lake Tribe Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (North and SouthDakota) Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of6 Utah Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the RosebudIndian Reservation Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians ofMontana Northwestern Band of the ShoshoneNation Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of SouthDakota Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the LowerBrule Reservation Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow CreekReservation Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the LakeTraverse Reservation Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the KickapooReservation in Kansas Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Meskwaki Nation, Sac & Fox Tribe of theMississippi in Iowa Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and OurayReservation Confederated Salish and KootenaiTribes of the Flathead Reservation Omaha Tribe of Nebraska Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Arapaho Tribe of the Wind RiverReservation Shoshone Tribe of Wind RiverReservation Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of theCheyenne River Reservation Oglala Sioux Tribe Turtle Mountain Band of ChippewaIndians of North Dakota Confederated Tribes of the GoshuteReservation Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri inKansas and Nebraska Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Navajo Nation Santee Sioux Nation
What is the Food & Mood Project?Goal: Promote emotional wellness and reduce the impact of mental health andsubstance use issues in the SAMHSA Regions 7 and 8, and USDA FNSMountain Plains Region, K-12 population through identifying andimplementing strategies that address the intersection between behavioralhealth and food/food insecurity/culturally appropriate foods/schoolgardens.7Vision: Promoting and protecting behavioral health through changes topolicy, research, and funding that increase consistent access to nutritious,culturally appropriate food and school gardens.
Food and Mood Planning Committee Traci Pole: Assistant Regional Administrator SAMHSA - Region 8 Traci.Pole@samhsa.hhs.gov Kim Reynolds: Public Health Advisor, SAMHSA, Center for Mental Health Services Kimberly.Reynolds@samhsa.hhs.gov Gina O’Brian: Regional Senior/Lead Nutritionist, USDA-FNS MPRO Gina.OBrian@usda.gov Christina Dodd: Lead Program Specialist-School Nutrition Branch, USDA-FNS MPRO Christina.Dodd@usda.gov Susana Calderon: Regional Women’s Health Analyst, OASH Office of Regional HealthOperations, Region 8 Susana.Calderon@hhs.gov Max Yang: SAMHSA Virtual Student Federal Service Intern maxyang@sas.upenn.edu Ankita Mohan: SAMHSA Virtual Student Federal Service Intern aumohan@wm.edu8
Planning Committee Role Established the Food & Mood project and maintains the parameters andscope of the project Advances and coordinates work with subcommittees Facilitates Food & Mood listserv Maintains Food & Mood webpage Organizes and hosts semi-annual Food and Mood Town Halls Logistics coordination for three subcommittees Conducts literature reviews Maintains SharePoint and contact lists Schedules meetings, take meeting minutes, polls Identifies speakers and agenda preparation9
Meet the three subcommittees!10
Emotional Wellness and Food Security/Equity SubcommitteeGoal Identify/develop/promote resources and strategies that addressfood security/equity to protect and support emotional wellness,as well as for mitigating the short and long-term impacts of foodinsecurity/inequity on emotional wellness/substance misuse.Co-Chairs Malissa Martin — Communities in Schools of Mid-America Gary Henault — KS Department of Disability and Aging Services11
Emotional Wellness and Culturally Appropriate Food, & FoodSovereignty SubcommitteeGoal Identify/develop/promote resources and strategies that leverageaccess to and promote menus that reflect culturally diversefood/food sovereignty to protect and support emotionalwellness, as well to help mitigate historical trauma and the shortand long-term behavioral health impacts of lack of access tolocal/sustainable and culturally appropriate food.Co-Chairs Sean Hollearn — Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board Shannon Udy — Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board Greg Donovan — Santee Sioux Nation Society of Care12
Nourishment for Emotional Wellness SubcommitteeGoal Identify/develop/promote resources and strategies that leveragefood and gardening/farming as self-care/emotional wellnesspromotion, in contrast to popular culture messaging that may beassociated with negative body image and associated mentalillness/substance use disorders.Co-Chairs Rachel Jones — Missouri Department of Mental Health Heather Hauswirth — Boulder County Public Health13
Food & Mood Project Accomplishments14
Food & Mood Biannual Town Hallshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v 0RIP7325OmQ&ab channel SAMHSA15https://vimeo.com/622626372
Food and Mood regional-offices/food-and-mood16
Food & Mood SharePoint Site - Keeps Us Informed &Organized17
Five Pillars of Food & MoodEquitable Access listic andMeaningfulculturally- informed education andcurriculumcurriculumAn increase in theamount of flexiblefunding to enableequitable access tonutritious, culturallyappropriate foodsand emotionalwellness relatedservices.A change in theperspective ofmental health at thecommunity levelthat engages withsocial determinantsof health (SDoH),creatingemploymentopportunities andmore effectivesupport systems.The implementationof culturallyappropriate Foodand Mood learningopportunities thatpromote food andemotional wellness,for example:learning in schoolgardens.The creation of aFood and Moodtoolkit that is widelydistributed toincrease knowledgeof the link betweenfood and emotionalwellness.(HueLife Food & Mood Subcommittee Co-Chair and Planning TeamCollective Vision Workshop, September 30, 2021)18An inclusive,normalizing publicdialogueA decrease in stigmabehind food andemotional wellnessthrough publiceducation, nationalcampaigns, andpublic dialogue.
What’s Next 2022 Town Halls Reports, white papers, literature reviews Subcommittee projects19
Contact UsTraci Pole, MBA, MSAssistant Regional AdministratorTraci.Pole@samhsa.hhs.govKimberly E. Reynolds, MPA, MEdPublic Health gov1-877-SAMHSA-7 (1-877-726-4727) 1-800-487-4889 (TDD)20
prevention, treatment, and recovery services in order to improve individual, community, and public health. Mission SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities. Behavioral Health is Essential to Health. Prevention Works. Treatment Is Effective. People Recover
