How Does Denny's Impact Childhood Hunger

JLSP has identified food insecurities with in the community as a growing issue especially among school age children. The program is promoted through

The school food service program had underperformed for years and had been siphoning valuable dollars from limited education funds to support operations. To make matters more troublesome, implementing the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act was presenting a major challenge. Meal participation had been declining, and in 2011, LWCS had to use $77,000 dollars from the general fund to cover foodservice shortfalls. During an audit, SLA was recommended to LWCS as a solution to their food service issues and as a partner that could customize a program to fit their multi-cultural and school community culture.

Thesis Statement: The Houston Food Bank uses the efforts of volunteers as well as donations to support the reduction of hunger in the community.

It was difficult to read that countless millions of federal dollars and many of our country's most successful efforts to halt the spread of childhood hunger and starvation have recently been withdrawn. And as a result, this problem of childhood hunger is not getting better but is actually getting worse. The most recent estimates compiled by the USDA in 1999 indicate that 36.2 million Americans live in food-insecure households, which means that their access to adequate and safe food is limited or uncertain. This too is very disturbing information.

The “Cooking Matter” program will be responsible for three interventions to help alleviate child hunger by recruiting college student participants. (See appendix J for group work VII on intervention development). The first intervention was “Read It before You Eat It!” this intervention will demonstrate the correct way to read nutrition and food labels. Each participant will examine the actual food packaging labels of different food items such as whole wheat pasta, regular pasta, bread, cheese, and

Attempting to urge student involvement and the rising costs of providing meals is a constant issue with the companies which provides meals for the schools. In the meantime, the issue remains how to increase the nutritional values of the food provided and assisting the companies that provide the food to do so and to maintain a stable program and its honesty, especially in making sure that children who are not eligible do not receive these reduced cost or free meals (Ralston, Newman, Clauson, Guthrie, & Buzby, 2008, p. iii).

Denny’s can have a tremendous impact on childhood hunger in my community because Brownsville is considered one of the most disadvantaged cities in the United States. Many of these children go to bed with an empty stomach or save half of their food from their lunch tray and bring it home for dinner to feed their own family. It’s extremely disturbing to hear this but it’s the truth and providing for the needy will improve their health.

Most people in the United States today are unaware of the increasing numbers of child hunger throughout the country. Today, a staggering one in five kids struggle with hunger in our own country (Francisco 18). Not only does it affect their concentration and grades in school, but also their overall health. Over 1.02 billion people in the world are considered to be malnourished, and hunger and malnutrition is the leading cause of child deaths, which accounts for 6 million children each year (Nah and Chau). When most people think of children and families going hungry, they think that it is just a problem in other countries. However, there is an increasing amount of children and their families in North Carolina

I was the volunteer coordinator for a student service organization (SNAC) during my undergraduate work. SNAC’s goal was to improve the health of disadvantaged students through nutrition education and interventions. We provided food assistance, taught healthy cooking classes, and linked students to other assistance services as needed. I quickly recognized a relationship between nutrition, socioeconomic status, and health, which opened the door to my interests in public health. I saw the opportunity to help individuals by improving the wellness of their community.

If I could change one thing about my community, it would be how we deal with the issue of childhood hunger. It often goes unnoticed, but there are many children going hungry at night. It is a real issue in America and here in the Birmingham area. No child should ever go to bed hungry at night wondering where their next meal is going to come from. That is why I believe our business community should partner with local non-profits and churches to develop more community gardens. Community gardens are an affordable way to feed those in need and for children to learn how to grow their own food to support healthier lifestyles. Implementing multiple community gardens in the Birmingham metro area (similar to Jones Valley Farm) would allow children to

The Target Corporation has partnered with Feeding America in its fight to end hunger in the United States. They give millions of pounds of food each year, providing millions of meals to families in need. Target has also teamed up with Feeding America to launch Meals for Minds, a program to offer kids from lower-income communities with access to foods they need to learn and grow directly in their own schools. “Without proper nutrition, kids can’t concentrate or do well in school. Our Target Meals for Minds program brings food to K-12 students and families in need. Now active in elementary schools in 42 cities across the country, and powered by our partnerships with Feeding America and local food

One in four American children live in food-insecure households, meaning that they lack adequate access to food of any type, not just food with significant nutritional value (Ford, 2013, p. 58). As these families are the most likely to have children who both leave for and return home from school to an empty house, they are also the most likely to have children who prepare meals for themselves. Often, children fail to nourish themselves, skipping meals when they are running late or because they find nothing in the pantry they are capable of preparing. These students ready themselves (and sometimes siblings) for school and frequently don’t take their first meal until mid-day, losing precious hours of instructional time to distraction over food, fatigue due to low levels of nourishment, and other physical ailments tied to poor nutrition. If school breakfasts were free and readily available to all public school students, morning meals would be

There are many national campaigns in order to raise awareness and put a stop to the food deserts including campaigns such as Supermarket Stakeout and even Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move.” The growing crisis in the United States is so dire that we are receiving help from internationals. One example is Jamie Oliver and his school menu project, which goes into local American public schools and teaches the cafeteria how to create healthy, great tasting, and affordable school menu options. My proposal is that we continue to move forward with these programs but also create more accessible supermarkets who partake in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAP) and educate young adults. Generally, areas with food deserts are in towns or suburbs that are far from supermarkets and on top of that not all supermarkets and grocery stores take food stamps making it harder for impoverished families and young adults to find affordable healthy food.

In conclusion, hunger in America is at an all time high due to poverty and the economy. The increasingly high number of starving children has gone up over the past years and needs to be stopped. There are government programs set up to help stop hunger in American, such as, SNAP Food Stamps and WIC. We can get involved by volunteering with Feeding America or other non-for-profit organizations set for feeding the hungry. Food donations and monetary donations have always been a great way to help out for those who don’t have the time to donate.

We need to care about the people who are in poverty by keeping them from starving. School Food System needs donations of food to low income people that can barely afford food and also feeding to the homeless in that case that “Feed millions of American schoolchildren, a great many of them from low-income households,” quoted by Heron and Waters to prove my theories. School foods have tons of leftovers that can be donated instead of throwing them away in the trash. For an example of my personal experience, when I was living in a poor life as a kid, and my family relied on donated food. It can also be a business opportunity for people who are willing to “pays good money for what are essentially leftovers from big American food producers” (Heron & Waters) for leftovers food by making it affordable for the lower-class. This proposal of changing the School Food System can able to help people with the low income and homeless from starving