Open Hand/Atlanta Regional Commission/Visiting Nurse Health System

A collaboration to provide E.S.R.D. (end stage renal disease) patients with the resources to live in an independent setting as an alternative to nursing home care.

Open Hand/Atlanta Regional Commission

A collaboration to create a working model for in-home support service using Stanford University’s “Train the Trainer” model for sustainable, local in-home care through chronic disease self-management.

Open Hand/Visiting Nurse Health System/Senior Citizen Services (SCS)

FCSC (Fulton County Senior Collaborative)

A collaboration to manage all senior centers in central Fulton County.  SCS handles facility management. Open Hand handles distribution of home-delivered meals, health and wellness, and volunteer recruitment. VNHS handles case management.

Open Hand/United Way/Atlanta Union Mission
24/7 Gateway Center
Open Hand manages the kitchen and food services, providing nutritious breakfast, lunch and dinner to the residents of the Gateway Center.  Open Hand also uses the kitchen as a training lab for the TACK program, whose students, many of whom are residents of the Gateway Center, assist with the preparation of the Gateway resident meals.

Open Hand/GSU (Georgia State University)

This collaboration utilizes graduate nutrition students as part of their curriculum to gain a better understanding of Open Hand nutrition program and overall non-profit organizational operation and structure.

Open Hand/Emory University Medical School

Open Hand currently collaborates with Emory in the following:

1. Diabetes research study
2. Bariatric Center/Dunwoody nutrition education program
3. Provide nutrition services, including MNT (Medical Nutrition
Therapy) and Counseling Education, to Crawford Long Hospital financed by Ryan White Care Act.

4. Provide graduate students internship opportunities.

Open Hand/St. Joseph’s Hospital

A collaboration to provide nutrition services, including MNT (Medical Nutrition Therapy) and Counseling Education, to Crawford Long Hospital financed by Ryan White Care Act.

AMPA (Atlanta Meal Providers Association)
This collaboration was created by Open Hand for all regional home-delivered meal programs to share best practices, group purchasing opportunities, technology and to avoid duplication of services.  (This program is currently inactive.)

Open Hand/The Atlanta Community Food Bank

TACK (The Atlanta Collaborative Kitchen)
The Atlanta Collaborative Kitchen (TACK) is an innovative collaboration between Open Hand, The Atlanta Community Food Bank, and the Gateway 24/7 Homeless Center. TACK educates unemployed and underemployed adults, many residing within homeless shelters and transitional housing, during a sixteen-week culinary arts/job training program. TACK graduates receive assistance in securing employment in the food service industry, and enter the workforce with the skills and the confidence to remain productive members of the community.