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Download full textCraig Gundersen – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2023
Food insecurity is the leading indicator of well-being for vulnerable children in the United States due to the magnitude of the problem (9.3 million in 2021) and the associated numerous negative health and other consequences. Given the magnitude of food insecurity and its health consequences, food insecurity is a leading contributor to health…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Disadvantaged, Food, Hunger
Calloway, Eric E.; Fricke, Hollyanne E.; Pinard, Courtney A.; Smith, Teresa M.; Yaroch, Amy L. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit duration (i.e., the number of weeks each month a participants' SNAP benefits provide food), and five primary outcome variables: food security, three hunger-coping behavior scales (rationing food supplies,…
Descriptors: Hunger, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Food, Security (Psychology)
Singletary, Jon; Everett, Jeremy K.; Nolen, Erin – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2012
This paper focuses on a project developed in Texas that utilizes community organizing strategies to advance childhood food security. With a dual focus on organizing policymakers and local communities, The Texas Hunger Initiative provides an example of an organizing project with the goal of ending childhood food insecurity in Texas.
Descriptors: Food, Security (Psychology), Community Programs, Program Descriptions
Joyce, Katherine M.; Breen, Amanda; Ettinger de Cuba, Stephanie; Cook, John T.; Barrett, Kathleen W.; Paik, Grace; Rishi, Natasha; Pullen, Bianca; Schiffmiller, Ashley; Frank, Deborah A. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2012
America's low-income families struggle to protect their children from multiple threats to their health and growth. Many research and advocacy groups explore the health and educational effects of food insecurity, but less is known about these effects on very young children. Children's HealthWatch, a group of pediatric clinicians and public health…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Health, Child Development, Disadvantaged
