Sunday, October 17
Poster Session: Clinical Care; Communications; Critical Thinking and Decision Making; Food, Nutrition and Dietetics and Physical Activity; Leadership and Advocacy
Emergency Meals-to-You: a Public Private Partnership that Delivered Meals to Children in Rural America During the COVID-19 Crisis

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Learning Outcome

Describe how the Emergency Meals to You Program combatted food insecurity by delivering free, nutritious meals directly to children in rural communities across the United States during the COVID-19 crisis.

School districts implemented a variety of food service models in response to COVID-19 related school closures, but some struggled to procure adequate food and labor to provide meals that met the needs of all children. Many rural families faced barriers that prevented access to even these

Funding source

Meals to You is a public-private partnership between USDA, the Baylor University Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, McLane Global, PepsiCo, and Chartwells K12.

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