A presentation slide titled 'Phase 1.2 Learning Collaborative' with key activities including forming four cross-sector teams to improve efforts to address food insecurity and encouraging upstream interventions for addressing SDOH.

Phase 1.2 – Designing the Roadmap

Instead of letting inertia undermine all the progress made so far, the effort pivoted toward a focus on food insecurity, with the South Carolina Roadmap to Food Security Learning Collaborative launching in January of 2021. 

The Learning Collaborative could be done remotely and therefore circumvented the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, and food insecurity had been identified as the most widespread issue in South Carolina.  

Once again, CARE, with its experience facilitating learning collaboratives, played a lead role in the work. HealthBegins remained on board, with their Nonmedical Factors Impacting Health (NMFIH) expertise forming much of the curriculum. The mission of the Learning Collaborative was to discover and define ways of reducing food insecurity in South Carolina, with those methods and pathways forming a prototype for future work to emulate. 

When the Learning Collaborative wrapped up a year later, the effort was found to be well worth the time and effort, with several success stories demonstrating just what can be accomplished when NMFIH is addressed.