Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: May 2019
Examines the feasibility of utilizing food photography (Remote Food Photography Method or RFPM) with rural, low-resource families to examine the context of family mealtime, including meal timing, location, concordance in child-parent meals, level of preparation, and meal quality. Reviews mealtimes of 31 parent-child pairs in rural Colorado. Discusses the methodology's potential utility for both assessment and intervention.
...Behavior, 51(5), 547-555 05/2019 Families · Food security and nutrition · Research methods and resources · Statistics and data · Colorado...
Date: Aug 2024
Examines how assessments are made and implemented regarding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) work requirements. Discusses variations of work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) across 4 case study states: Georgia, Maryland, Texas, and Wisconsin. Includes SNAP applicant characteristics and determinations for work requirements by demographic information and urbanicity of metropolitan, micropolitan, or rural. Provides feedback from rural SNAP staff regarding difficulties assessing SNAP participants' fitness for work.
...Food security and nutrition · Human services · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Georgia · Maryland · Texas...
Date: 2022
A fact sheet that provides information on benefits, programs, and organizations that assist low-income grandfamilies and kinship families gaining access to healthy food. Includes information on the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR).
...Center, Generations United Benefit enrollment and application · Families · Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Tribal communities...
Date: May 2024
Provides an overview of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and how local WIC agencies and clinic sites assess their breastfeeding and nutrition services to improve participant retention and service delivery. Includes two reports: a pre-pandemic nutrition assessment report at the state and local levels and a remote versus in-person report focused on assessment processes. Includes data from state agencies as well as 369 local WIC agencies, with differences between rural versus urban agencies discussed.
...Food security and nutrition · Maternal health and prenatal care · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: May 2024
Series of videos highlighting challenges with access to quality healthcare for rural Americans. Discusses healthcare access in remote locations, food insecurity and farming practices, transportation, wellness initiatives, and chronic health conditions in 5 states. Transcript available in video description.
...Food security and nutrition · Frontier and remote areas · Obesity and weight control · Transportation · Wellness, health...
Date: May 2021
Research brief exploring the impact of the pandemic on rural communities, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health. Includes statistics on weekly deaths from March-November 2020 per 100,000 people ages 20 and over, with breakdowns by 5 levels of population density.
...COVID-19 · Food security and nutrition · Infectious diseases · Poverty · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Mar 2022
Reports on the school meal service Community Eligible Provisions (CEP) in low-income areas based on data from school years 2014-2015 and 2016-2017. Discusses characteristics of participating and non-participating Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and schools, the perceived benefits and barriers of participation, and impacts of CEP. Includes data on eligibility and participation of LEAs in rural areas.
...Nutrition Service Benefit enrollment and application · Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Schools · Statistics and data...
Date: 2019
Describes current literature on rural challenges and opportunities, including cardiovascular risk due to obesity, lack of access to healthcare, workforce shortages, importance of paramedics and community health workers, telehealth and broadband, and impact of the substance use disorder epidemic. Intended to help stakeholders understand the causes of health disparities and to support action to improve the health of rural communities.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Health workforce supply and demand · Illicit drug use · Obesity...
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Funding for projects in the areas of education, economic opportunity, health, human services, arts and culture, and environment and conservation for organizations located in 23 counties of Eastern Texas and Miller County, Arkansas.
...Food security and nutrition · Graduate medical education · Health insurance · Health workforce education and training · Human...
Date: 2017
Describes how a rural Colorado community re-opened its only grocery store as a co-op, after a severe blizzard that cut off the town for days made the need for a local store apparent to residents. Discusses the challenges facing rural grocery stores.
...Cooperatives, 84(3), 12-15 2017 USDA Rural Development Access · Community engagement and volunteerism · Food security and nutrition · Colorado...