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Massachusetts’ Flexible Services Program: Improving Food and Nutrition Security Improves Health

March 08, 2023 Jane Francis, USDA, FNS and written by Hannah Benson, Project Bread Program Manager

Several studies consistently link poor access to food to poor health outcomes, including heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. Project Bread, a Massachusetts’ nonprofit focused on permanently solving food insecurity, teamed up with MassHealth to pilot the Flexible Services Program, or FSP, to...

Food and Nutrition