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Online Forum: School Meals Food and Nutrition This site, hosted by the Food Research and Action Center, provides numerous resources for understanding, implementing, and spreading awareness about the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004. Specific resources for serving migrant, homeless, and runaway children and youth are included. This 2-page brief from the Food Research and Action Center provides a concise and easily-understandable summary of the main points of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 as they pertain to homeless, migrant, and runaway students. Topics include: automatic eligibility for free school Meals, documentation of free meal eligibility, full year school eligibility, federal nutrition funds for shelters serving children and youth, and food stamps and homeless children and youth. Feeding America seeks to create a hunger-free America. Feeding America distributes food and grocery products through a nationwide network of certified affiliates, increases public awareness of domestic hunger, and advocates for policies that benefit America's hungry. Enter your zipcode under "Find Your Local Programs" to find a food bank or food rescue program in your area. Also, explore the data gathered as part of Feeding America's Hunger in America 2010 initiative. FirstStep, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, is a web-based interactive tool for helping individuals who are homeless to access federal benefit programs. The tool contains information pertaining to income assistance, health care assistance, food assistance, housing assistance, employment services, alcohol and drug abuse treatment, child care, life skills, mental health and counseling services, and HIV/AIDS services. The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading national organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. Founded in 1970 as a public interest law firm, FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals and agencies across the country. The Food Stamp Map Machine website, sponsored by the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, is an interactive web-based mapping utility that illustrates food stamp program participation and benefit levels down to the county level. Use the map machine to show per capita participation, per capita benefits, changes from year to year, and more. This article, published in the October 2002 issue of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, examines the independent contribution of child hunger on children’s physical and mental health and academic functioning, when controlling for a range of environmental, maternal, and child factors that have also been associated with poor outcomes among children. The Sodexo Foundation, the charitable arm of Sodexo, Inc., is committed to being a driving and creative force that contributes to a hunger-free nation. The Sodexo Foundation's website includes hunger facts and information on Sodexo's local, state, national, and global hunger initiatives. This policy brief from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. includes state and regional breakdowns and comparisons of state Food Stamp Program participation rates. Sixty-seven percent of those eligible for the program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), received benefits in 2006, a two percentage point increase from 2005. The participation rate for the working poor—people who qualify for program benefits and live in households in which someone earns income from a job—was 57 percent. The findings show that Missouri, Maine, and Tennessee likely had higher participation rates for all eligible people than most states. In contrast, California likely had a lower rate than most states. Among regions, the Midwest region had the highest participation rate at 74 percent, and the Western region had the lowest at 58 percent. This webpage provides information about the USDA's four domestic food assistance programs that exclusively or primarily serve the nutritional needs of children. The four programs covered are the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Summer Food Service Program. The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-265) expands federal child nutrition programs in several ways to assist homeless, migrant, and runaway children and youth by providing:Related memo
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