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Title: Experiences and Outcomes from the 2022 Meals-to-You Program Insights from the Pilot Program's Fourth Year
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Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: This report summarizes findings from year 4 of an ongoing evaluation of Meals-to-You (MTY), a pilot program administered by the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP) and funded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The MTY program is designed to deliver shelf-stable boxes of food to children in eligible households during the summer, when school meals are not available. The goal of the program is to address the increased risk of children’s food insecurity during the summer in rural and remote communities that lack access to summer meal sites. The first year of the program in 2019 tested the model in multiple school districts in Texas. In 2020, the program was expanded to include children in parts of Alaska and New Mexico. As part of the emergency response to reductions in access to school meals resulting from COVID-19 school closures, the program was also expanded across the country in 2020 (Waxman et al. 2021). In 2021, BCHP continued the program in certain areas of Alaska, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. The MTY pilot was originally meant to last for three years and expire in summer 2021, but USDA decided to extend the program to a fourth summer. This report covers the 2022 summer MTY program, which we refer to throughout as MTY.
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Authors: Gupta, Poonam; Gutierrez, Emily; Anderson, Theresa; Waxman, Elaine; Salas, Julio; Lepe-Hernandez, Fernando; Triplett, Tim
Publisher: Urban Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Natural Resource Management, Poverty and Welfare
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