Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Dec 2021
Describes how Region XI Head Start children's centers adjusted their communications and services with families during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examines the needs that families reported to center staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, including food and nutrition services and healthcare related to COVID-19, and discusses how centers provided supports to meet these needs.
...Food security and nutrition · Housing and homelessness · Infectious diseases · Schools · Statistics and data · Transportation · Tribal...
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...
Date: Feb 2019
Describes how federal child nutrition programs operate under current law, including eligibility rules, participation, and funding. Features statistics including reimbursement rates with breakdowns by rural or urban locations.
...Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Schools · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Jul 2025
Provides an overview of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). Highlights changes to the SFSP made in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, including the permanent authorization of the nationwide Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (Summer EBT) Program for Children, and allowing Seamless Summer Option (SSO) sponsors to provide meals for off-site consumption to children in rural areas without access to congregate meal sites.
...Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Income support and assistance · Legislation and regulations · Schools...
Date: May 2020
Provides an overview of the Nutrition Services Program authorized under the Older Americans Act. Describes the administration of the Nutrition Services Program, its funding, service delivery, program participation, and program evaluation. Includes brief rural references throughout.
...Congressional Research Service Aging and aging-related services · Food security and nutrition · Older adults · Policy...
Date: Mar 2005
Discusses access to and participation in low-income programs, such as welfare and public housing, by those who are eligible. Includes information on strategies used by federal, state, and local administrators to improve access.
...application · Food security and nutrition · Health insurance · Housing and homelessness · Income support and assistance · Medicaid...
Date: Jan 2022
Discusses the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Provides an overview of federal actions on healthcare and economic policy areas through early January 2022, including data on COVID-19 relief spending and vaccinations. Offers 5 new recommendations to federal agencies regarding emergency rental assistance, nutrition assistance, and tax relief for businesses. Also designates the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) leadership and coordination of a range of public health emergencies as high risk to ensure sustained executive branch and congressional attention so the nation is prepared for future emergencies.
...response · Food security and nutrition · Funding · Income support and assistance · Policy · Statistics and data · Vaccination...
Date: Mar 2021
Describes the role of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in improving population health and addressing social needs in their communities. Profiles two Critical Access Hospital social needs programs: Lakewood Health System's food access initiatives in Minnesota, and Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital's NEK Prosper. Provides an overview of both programs and highlights best practices of each.
...Food security and nutrition · Healthcare networks · Housing and homelessness · Human services · Mental health · Physical activity...
Date: Jan 2022
Examines 5 school districts in socially vulnerable communities and describes problems faced by students after disasters, including housing instability, food insecurity, and lack of access to mental health services, especially in rural communities. Includes a state- and territory-level map showing school districts that received federal recovery grants for 2017-2019 presidentially-declared disasters.
...response · Food security and nutrition · Funding · Housing and homelessness · Mental health · Schools · Statistics and data...
Date: 2024
Offers findings from the 2023 Title VI Native American Aging Program Survey. Discusses service provision, nutrition and traditional foods, services and supports for caregivers, transportation, elder abuse, program staffing and funding, and partnerships.
...Food security and nutrition · Funding · Health workforce · Informal caregivers · Networking and collaboration · Transportation · Tribal communities...