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Weather FRIDAY Partly Cloudy 100/72 Submitted photo Food Outreach and DOORWAYS have both served metro St. Louis residents living with HIV and experiencing nutrition and residential instability, and now they have collaborated to launch a new nutrition program.
Food Outreach and DOORWAYS collaborate to provide resources, food and housing for residents living with HIV By Olivia Holler Homelessness and hunger are ongoing issues in society that are more prevalent for those with chronic illnesses. Food Outreach and DOORWAYS have both served metro St. Louis residents living with HIV and experiencing nutrition and residential instability, and now they have collaborated to launch a new nutrition program.
The collaboration will help make sure homeless community members living with HIV transition to a DOORWAYS supportive housing program and will receive healthy meals that will help them build a healthy foundation for nutrition. The purpose of this program is to look for solutions to provide access to well-balanced meals to this vulnerable community. “In a community like St. Louis, it has been a priority to provide housing first.
DOORWAYS provides so much – it looks at the whole human – housing and other resources such as mental health. It helps those people move back into the community in an impactful way,” said Julie Lock, Executive Director at Food Outreach. “Now more than ever it will help people move back to the community with the addition of the nutrition program. See ‘FORCES’ page 2
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