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Download full textCarolyn Barnes; Sarah Halpern-Meekin; Jill Hoiting – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
This study examines how individuals assess administrative burdens and how these views change over time within the context of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which provides food to pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under age five. Using interview data from the Baby's First…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Low Income Groups, Infants
Wolfson, Julia; Insolera, Noura; Cohen, Alicia – University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, 2019
In this report we present results from our study of the effect of SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] and WIC [Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children] participation during childhood on food insecurity risk in young adulthood. We also examined the effect of parental nutritional knowledge and childhood…
Descriptors: Food, Security (Psychology), Federal Programs, Nutrition
Gray, Kelsey Farson; Eslami, Esa – US Department of Agriculture, 2014
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) serves as the foundation of America's national nutrition safety net. It is the nation's first line of defense against food insecurity and offers a powerful tool to improve nutrition among low-income individuals. SNAP is the largest of the 15 domestic food and nutrition assistance programs…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Food Service, Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients
Direct linkGerstein, Dana E.; Martin, Anna C.; Crocker, Nancy; Reed, Heather; Elfant, Michael; Crawford, Pat – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2010
Objective: To examine the effectiveness of learner-centered education in conveying the message to change participants' fruit and vegetable consumption. Design: Focus groups were conducted with sites participating in the Finding the Teacher Within (FTW) program and comparison sites 4-6 months after participants attended the Special Supplemental…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mothers, Family Life, Focus Groups
Bagby, Jane W.; And Others – 1988
Large percentages of preschool children in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia live in poverty and receive no benefits from society's "safety nets." County estimates for unemployment and per capita income (1985-1987) indicate that economic conditions are most severe in central West Virginia, eastern Kentucky,…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Infants
Nolan, Nelda M.; Gross, John G. – 1972
The report evaluates the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) in Missouri by comparing the dietary adequacy and nutrition knowledge of 200 program families representative of urban, small town and rural areas with that of 200 similarly representative non-program families. Data were gathered by personal interviews taken in March,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Demography
