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What's New? New Articles from NERAHN Member Organizations "3SquaresVT and the Importance of Food Choice” “Child Care Feeding Programs Support Young Children’s Healthy Development” “Earning More, Receiving Less: Loss of Benefits and Child Hunger” “Even Very Low Levels of Food Insecurity Found to Harm Children’s Health” “Feeding Our Future: Growing Up Healthy with WIC” “Food Insecurity Rates Rise Steeply with Recession” “Letter of concern about the effect that Question 2 in Part 3 of the U.S. Citizenship and “Reading, Writing and Hungry: The consequences of food insecurity on children, and on our nation’s economic success” “RX for Hunger: Affordable Housing” “SNAP Take-up Among Immigrant Families with Children” “Stories About 3SquaresVT & Potential Impact of Cuts” “The Real Cost of a Healthy Diet - Coming Up Short: High food costs outstrip food stamp benefits” “WIC Improves Health and School Readiness” Summer Food Service Program Best Practices Tool We are pleased to share our online SFSP Best Practices Tool with you! This resource is the result of an initiative funded by the UPS Foundation called the Northeast Collaboration to Reduce Hunger and Improve Nutrition. This project was intended to increase participation in the Summer Food Service Program within four participating states—Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont. The SFSP Best Practices Tool highlights the strategies and lessons learned from this initiative and addresses the following categories:
Visitors to the NERAHN website will be able to identify best practices for each of these categories, read community examples of how the best practices were implemented in participating states, download sample materials that can be adapted for use in other communities around the country, and learn the results of the UPS Project. If you would like more information about the SFSP advocacy work that was done in a particular state, please refer to the organizational profiles and contact information provided.
NERAHN’s Anti-Hunger Program and Policy Conference NERAHN News November 2008 June 2008
February 2007 - State News Connecticut
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