WellFedMinds advances mental health, healing, and community resilience through nutrition equity, cultural foodways, and upstream prevention. We work to ensure all communities, especially those historically marginalized, have access not only to food, but to nourishment that honors identity, supports recovery, and fosters resilience.
Where culture, care, and food come together
What Does WellFedMinds Do?
We support mental health and well-being by working with communities and organizations to strengthen the everyday conditions that help people thrive.
Equitable access to nutritious, culturally relevant foods
By addressing barriers such as poverty, rising food costs, and uneven food system investment, communities can more easily access affordable, nourishing, culturally meaningful food.
Mental health promotion and upstream prevention
What we eat matters. Nutrition plays a foundational role in mental and physical well-being, shaping how children, youth, and families feel, think, grow, and heal across the lifespan.
Honoring traditional and ancestral food knowledge
Traditional and ancestral food knowledge is deeply rooted in sovereignty, land, culture, & community. We honor these relationships and support the transmission of knowledge, practices, and self-determination across generations.
Building protective factors and resilience in everyday environments
When food systems are rooted in local ecosystems and cultural traditions, they help create everyday environments that support health, connection, and resilience.
Community-driven solutions rooted in care and culture
Communities hold deep knowledge about how food can support health, care for shared resources, and sustain the environments they depend on. We honor and support those locally driven solutions.
Integrating nutrition into behavioral health care and recovery
We help behavioral healthcare providers incorporate nutrition support into care in ways that are practical, culturally responsive, and grounded in everyday settings.
Why It Matters
- $47 Trillion
- The projected global cost of chronic disease by 2030, driven in part by preventable, diet-related conditions.
- 47 Million
- People in the U.S. living in food-insecure households, facing daily barriers to health and stability.
- 60%
- Adults living with at least one diet-related chronic disease.
- 23%
- Adults who experienced a mental illness in the past year.
- 16%
- People ages 12+ living with a substance use disorder.
- 1.7 Million
- Adults who experienced serious suicidal thoughts, made a plan, or attempted suicide in 2024.
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WellFedMinds exists because mental health and substance use outcomes are shaped long before a crisis, by access to nourishing food, meaningful connection, and supportive environments. We partner with communities to strengthen mental health and prevent substance use harms by addressing root causes such as food access and nutrition education, social connection, cultural identity, and belonging. Our work centers prevention and early support, especially for children, youth, and families, while helping systems integrate nutrition, food access, and care into everyday settings.
Your support helps build a future where mental health, recovery, and well-being are nourished early, equitably, and together.