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Students who eat school breakfast tend to do better in school and attend class more frequently! This leads to greater job-readiness and self-sufficiency after high school. Pre-pandemic, we began to see positive growth in breakfast participation. According to FRAC’s 2021 School Breakfast Scorecard:
🍎 Breakfast participation increased by nearly 186,000 students in the 2019–2020 school year compared to the previous year.
🍎 The School Breakfast Program served 58.4 low-income students for every 100 who participated in the National School Lunch Program, an increase from 57.3 to 100 in the previous school year.
It's no secret that the COVID-19 Pandemic hindered the progress made in school breakfast participation. However, it also exposed inequities in access to meals and emphasized the need for universal free meals. To read more about how the pandemic changed school breakfast, check out the Food Research & Action Center
2021 School Breakfast Scorecard:
https://bit.ly/3KqiZ1e
All children deserve to eat a balanced breakfast every day! hey can continue to develop mentally and physically, and have the necessary energy to go about their days happy, focused, and engaged📚
Thanks to our colleagues at Food Research & Action Center and DC Hunger for celebrating with us today to highlight the importance of ! Read more about initiatives to expand access to school meals in MD:
http://bit.ly/35CMj6d
CDF is proud to be part of the powerful coalition organized by the Food Research & Action Center demanding Congress extend essential waivers. Read our statement:
http://ow.ly/sQyT50IgbeO
1 in 7 U.S. children live in a household struggling with food insecurity. During , learn more about how can play a critical role in addressing food insecurity in the American Academy of Pediatrics and Food Research & Action Center's toolkit.
https://frac.org/aaptoolkit
BREAKING: Alongside so many other organizations and advocates, EHC! is extremely disappointed to learn today that despite thousands of organization/individual letters and sign-ons urging action, the Senate Appropriations Committee did not include the extension of critical child nutrition waivers in the Omnibus spending bill.
Perfectly summed by our national partners at the Food Research & Action Center: "𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟑𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐, 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬."
USDA Report link:
https://tinyurl.com/2p9fsurs
FRAC Report link:
https://tinyurl.com/2dnn7jmu
Senator Chris Murphy Senator Richard Blumenthal John Larson Joe Courtney Rosa DeLauro Representative Jim Himes Rep Jahana Hayes
The 2022 National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference is just one week away. For the first time, City Harvest is partnering with Food Bank For New York City, UWNYC, and dozens of our food pantry partners to virtually “fly-in” to the conference in Washington, DC as a New York City cohort. We’ll be meeting with our elected leaders to highlight policy solutions for a more food-secure NYC.
Read and sign onto our joint statement here: p2a.co/73nri4M.
Feeding America I Food Research & Action Center
The School Breakfast Program helps ensure that the nation’s most vulnerable children start their day off with a healthy meal.
Children in food-insecure families are at risk of falling behind their peers physically, cognitively, academically, emotionally + socially.
The Program ameliorates food insecurity and helps support academic success, and improves attendance, behavior + health.
In Rhode Island, it's estimated that 22% of all children (~31,368) participate in School Breakfast.
Learn more about this great federal program + strategies to increase participation in our indicator!
https://www.rikidscount.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Factbook%202021/Children%20Participating%20in%20School%20Breakfast%202021.pdf?ver=2021-05-08-143030-430
The Economic Progress Institute Rhode Island Community Food Bank RI FOOD FIGHTS Parents Leading for Educational Equity - PLEE School Nutrition Association Rhode Island Healthy Schools Coalition Food Research & Action Center
Research proves that a child who eats breakfast is more likely to attend school, will be a better learner, and participate more in the classroom. We're proud to offer breakfasts to all students at no cost this year. Click here to learn more about the value of school breakfasts from Food Research & Action Center :
http://ow.ly/KEXC50IevPm
Last month, we joined the Food Research & Action Center and over 2,000 other national, state, and local organizations, urging to immediately extend USDA authority to issue nationwide child nutrition waivers in the upcoming appropriations package. Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report demonstrating the need for these critical waivers to continue as schools and students continue to navigate the effects of the . Read the report here:
https://tinyurl.com/2p9fsurs
🚨 There are a couple FANTASTIC learning opportunities scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday 3/8. There's still time to register! 🚨
12:30pm CST | Share Our Strength + The Aspen Institute
Conversations on Food Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Barriers to Accessing Social Benefit Programs
http://ow.ly/OsRR50IazFv
2:00pm CST | Food Research & Action Center
How SNAP Matters During Times of Disaster
http://ow.ly/5OVw50IazFw