Child and Adult Care Food Program

Introduction The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food insecurity as “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”1 Nearly 12% of people living in Virginia are considered food insecure, and these rates are even higher in the southeastern portion of the state. The cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth have food insecurity rates close to 19%.2 Many of these individuals are children, and the effects of childhood hunger are often detrimental on a child’s development. Their growth may be hindered, academics may suffer, and overall well-being may be compromised. 3 Another side effect from childhood hunger is one…

The name of the policy that I am going to further explore is, The Child Nutrition Reauthorization Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (P.L 111-296) under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The NSLP reauthorizes its program every five years and the latest policy update was the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010. This policy authorized funding for federal school meal programs and increased access to healthy food for low-income children. This policy required the one that came before it,…

B. USDA/FNS--what? The USDA/FNS has been mentioned a few times through this point. You may have questions as to what they do. Here is an overview of what they do. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is a fully federally funded program through the United Stated Department of Agriculture/Food and Nutrition Service (USDA/FNS). SNAP is administered through each state under the policies prescribed by FNS. In other words, they are directly responsible for making sure that SNAP (and…

assist are: the poor, children, homeless, minorities, older adults, and individuals who have a mental disability. Alabama DHR provides services to 67 counties, all with the same mission, vision, and values. In order to help people in need they offer array of services such as: adult/child protective services, food assistance, family assistance, and foster care (Alabama DHR n.d.). Alabama Department of Human Resources are vital to their community with ensuring the protection of children from…

There are several policies that have been added to make children eat healthier outside of school. For an example there is Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which only allows the purchase of healthy food for children or infants. WIC is a program that started in 1974 and has been growing, over half of all infants in the US has participated in WIC. This program is only meant for low-income women who have children that are up to the age of five. Another program is the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids…

Congress is debating the reauthorization of federal child nutrition programs, I ask you to work to improve these programs. Also I ask you to please reject any efforts to decrease healthier school meal standards that are in place. Starting the day with a nutritious meal is essential. It determines a person’s ability to function well at the start the day. Meals affects a person’s ability to perform tasks throughout the day. If this is true for adults, it is crucial for children. The federal child…

controlled now before it escalates into our future as a society as a whole. This epidemic can be helped by empowering caregivers, providing healthy food in schools, creating access to healthy and affordable food, and increasing physical activity in our lives. Years ago, obesity was not nearly as prevalent in society. The numbers…

States’ Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) nutrition assistance programs are set in place in order to “help reduce food insecurity, improve nutrition and reduce obesity” in order to ensure that children and families, alike, are able to have access to healthy diets in both, schools and child and adult care facilities, and also ensuring that families hold the funds to purchase food (United States Department of Agriculture 8). Within a year, one in four Americans will utilize at least one of the…

The food revolution has affected the base of what was called American culture. It has changed that culture into something brand new. “Our ambition was to replace processed junk food with freshly cooked meals in schools all over America”. This type of revolution has allowed people to see the great dramatic changes in their diet it. Jamie Oliver in my eyes brought about a new food system that has benefit everyone. Upon benefiting everyone it has caused other states to see the foods being eaten are…

with decreased risk for many diseases and some other leading causes of death like cancer, diabetes, stoke, heart disease and so many others. Nutrition program was thought to be for the poor deloping countries. SNAP played important role in making sure that these developing countries get this food they needed to prevent malnutrition and other preventable disease like diabetes, heart disease and so on. Today, some Americans are faced with the same problem of malnutrition that it is no longer a…