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Improving food security among Medicaid enrollees will reduce healthcare costs and improve healthcare outcomes. Key strategies include increasing Medicaid enrollee connection to food resources, strengthening the network of community food resources for Medicaid enrollees, and increasing enrollment and retention in SNAP and WIC. The Medicaid Food Security Network (MFSN) believes that every Medicaid program has an opportunity to address the food needs of Medicaid enrollees, with a special focus on families and children. Through the Medicaid Food Security Partners Program, the MFSN has funded innovative projects in four states: Georgia, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Virginia. Learn how leaders from anti-hunger organizations in each of these states have collaborated to create and leverage Medicaid policy opportunities to launch and implement various strategies to address food security in their community.