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Basic Needs/Support Services
Resource links for Basic Needs
- Hunger doesn’t take a vacation: a 17-page Summer Nutrition Status Report—Food research and Action Center
- Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and Success—a report through the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice
- Child Care and the Development of Behavior Problems among economically disadvantaged children in Middle Childhood—report through Child Development
- After-School Programs for Low-Income Children: Promise and Challenges—Princeton University
- The Effects of Poverty on Children—Princeton University
- Resources to fix schools: The necessities for educating children in Illinois—Joyce Foundation
- Poor families, Poor Outcomes: the well-being of children and youth
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Meeting the Need of Low-Income Students. A guide designed to help schools respond to the special nutrition concerns of low-income students in their wellness policies. It addresses family and community involvement, increasing access to school meals, establishing nutritional guidelines for all school foods, addressing cost concerns about changing competitive food policies and increasing physical activity and recreational opportunities. --Food and Research Action Center.
