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Exploring Policies to Combat Childhood Food Insecurity


Exploring Policies to Combat Childhood Food Insecurity

This blog will look at existing legislation and activities targeted at combating child summer hunger. Advocating for these policies helps ensure that no child ...

Exploring the Biden Administration's Commitment to Minimizing ...

The Children's Defense Fund fully supports expanding measures to make meals more readily available to children and to decrease the number of ...

Exploring the Gap: Food Insecurity and Resource Engagement - PMC

Among the 1818 participants recruited, 20.6% (375) screened positive for FI, consistent with the area's reported child FI rate. Of those who screened positive, ...

Targeted Policies Can Reduce the Harmful Consequences of Food ...

Recent evidence suggests that raising SNAP benefits by 29% could eliminate food insecurity in recipient households with children.15; Second, ...

Evidence-Based Strategies to End Childhood Food Insecurity and ...

Although Vermont faces challenges with childhood food insecurity and hunger, the state has advantages that put it in a strong position to tackle this problem: ...

Addressing Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

As part of its mission to promote economic and social well-being, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) works to ensure children, families, and ...

Public Policy Responses to Hunger - NCBI

This chapter explores the public policy responses to childhood hunger. This topic includes the impact of the food safety net and the extent to which ...

Approaches to Addressing Food Insecurity in School Settings

Food assistance programs help reimburse school meals for children of low-income families, such as the School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult ...

Coping strategies of food insecure households with children and ...

Results showed that adults tend to develop a wide range of coping strategies aimed at: reducing food expenditure, increasing the availability of money for ...

Food Insecurity - AAP

Join CHA and American Academy of Pediatrics for a three-part webinar series exploring ways that children's hospitals and pediatric practices can address the ...

Child Tax Credits Could Help Fight Hunger in the United States

Specifically, the new National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health calls for a permanently expanded Child Tax Credit, citing prior ...

"Strategies To Address Child Food Insecurity" by Michelle L. Kaiser ...

This research sought to explore nutrition and related health issues of 151 households with children who participated in a survey addressing food access, ...

From Crisis to Opportunity - State of Childhood Obesity

Federal nutrition programs such as WIC, school meals, and SNAP are proven to help alleviate child hunger, reduce food insecurity, and support a ...

Child Food Poverty - UNICEF

Activate social protection systems to address income poverty in ways that are responsive to the food and nutrition needs of the most vulnerable ...

Screen and Intervene: A Toolkit for Pediatricians to Address Food ...

Black and Latinx households with children continue to face disproportionately high rates of food insecurity before and during the pandemic. Explore our toolkit ...

Expanding the Menu: Opportunities for Medicaid to Better Address ...

There is also growing momentum across health care and food security stakeholders to mobilize Medicaid programs to become key partners in ...

Food Security in the U.S. - USDA ERS

Food security's effect on the well-being of children, adults, families, and communities; Food security's relationship to public policies, public assistance ...

'Hunger in early life': exploring the prevalence and correlates of child ...

Consequently, food policy has largely prioritized income support programs to the neglect of potentially important non-monetary factors. These ...

FOOD SECURITY EVIDENCE REVIEW - Feeding America

Exploring the dynamics of racial food insecurity gaps in the United States. ... Journal of. Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk, 6 ...

Hunger and Food Insecurity - Food System Primer

With small loans and entrepreneurial training, community members can start up small businesses that produce food for farmers' markets, stores, and restaurants.