Posted on October 28, 2015
Decisions are being made right now that will impact anti-hunger programs, including the Summer Meals Act, which will make it easier for school and cities to feed children in the summer months, when they are not receiving school meals.
Urge your Congressional representative to support this critical act.
The Summer Meals Act is the only bill that improves and specifically invests in out-of-school time meal sites, providing critical support to afterschool and summer providers who run programs that offer both healthy food and enrichment activities. This investment is essential to ensuring that low-income children get the nutrition they need when school is out, and also can access learning and enrichment activities offered at the sites.
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Keep the momentum going! Urge your Member of Congress to co-sponsor the Summer Meals Act.
Over 350 members of the law enforcement, education and court communities convened on Oct. 20, 2015 to identify ways they can work together to prevent school discipline issues from landing youth in court and in the juvenile justice system.
A growing number of New Jersey schools are serving breakfast during the first few minutes of the day and, as a result, have achieved a 75 percent increase in the number of low-income students eating this all-important morning meal, according to the 5th Annual NJ School Breakfast Report, released today by Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) and the NJ Food for Thought Campaign.
ACNJ’s latest report, Showing Up Matters: The State of Chronic Absenteeism in New Jersey highlights statewide data, identifies causes that lead to student absences, provides recommendations for schools and families and identifies districts, by county that are struggling with high student absences.
