OHSU Food Resource Center
As a part of Student Health and Wellness, the Food Resource Center provides free groceries, fresh produce and hygiene items to OHSU students in the Portland area. All students are welcome.
Rising tuition, transportation and housing costs, lack of time, or limited access to convenient and healthy food all play a role in food insecurity on college campuses. Students may find themselves skipping meals to pay for textbooks or cover tuition, opting to go hungry so they can keep their education moving forward.
"When you’re in clinic all day long or working shifts over the weekend, it can be extremely difficult to shop for and prepare healthy food," explains Gina Calco, an M.D./Ph.D. student who serves on OHSU’s Food Insecurity Task Force. "Our graduate medical students told us that they were going to events just to get free food, or that sometimes they had trouble studying because they were so hungry."
Thanks to the efforts of student leaders and committed faculty and staff, what started as a grassroots grocery box program has grown into the OHSU Food Resource Center (FRC) — a welcoming, on-campus resource dedicated to nourishing the next generation of healers, caregivers, and innovators.
