Food Is Medicine Home

How does the FIMH program work? 

Food Equality Initiative (FEI) subsidizes a direct-to-door grocery delivery service for qualified clients through our Food Is Medicine Access Home (FIMH) program .

2024 Qualifications:

  • Screen positive for food insecurity

  • Require food as medicine

  • Reside in Jackson (MO), Johnson (KS), or Wyandotte (KS) counties and/or referred by an FEI partner.

Through connecting people to community resources and subsidizing direct-to-door delivery service, we aim to ease the financial and psychological strain of a diagnosis of a diet-treated illness on individuals and families. We strive to nurture a community where everyone has access to the foods they need. 

No matter where you are in your journey, recently diagnosed or a special-diet veteran, FEI is here to help. Here is the path to follow to qualify for receiving services.

If you are a FQHC, clinic, or hospital looking to implement our FIM Home program, you can find more information here.

  • A diet-treated illness is a diagnosed condition where the avoidance or addition of certain foods play a significant role in treatment. At FEI, these include prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, food allergies, celiac disease.

  • Financial Qualifications

    Food Insecurity Screening Statements:

    1. Within the past 12 months, we were worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more.

    2. Within the past 12 months, the food we bought just didn’t last and we didn’t have money to get more.

  • Service Request

  • Once you (the prospective client) complete the Service Application Form, FEI works to approve your application. Your length of service from FEI is determined by funding, but will not exceed 12 consecutive months.

    In 2024, FEI is primarily serving those in Jackson county Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties Kansas.

    If you do not qualify for subsidized service, we will contact you with more information about our other programs.

  • After enrolled in FEI’s Food is Medicine Access Home (FIMH) program, you will have groceries delivered to your home.