TY - JOUR
T1 - A safety net unraveling
T2 - feeding young children during COVID-19
AU - Bauer, Katherine W.
AU - Chriqui, Jamie F.
AU - Andreyeva, Tatiana
AU - Kenney, Erica L.
AU - Stage, Virginia C.
AU - Dev, Dipti
AU - Lessard, Laura
AU - Cotwright, Caree J.
AU - Tovar, Alison
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research Program for their support of NOPREN.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 American Public Health Association Inc.. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - The emergence of COVID-19 in the United States led most states to close or severely limit the capacity of their early child-care and education (ECE) programs. This loss affected millions of young children, including many of the 4.6 million low-income children who are provided free meals and snacks by their ECE programs through support from the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Although Congress swiftly authorized waivers that would allow CACFP-participating ECE programs to continue distributing food to children, early evidence suggests that most ECE programs did not have the capacity to do so, leaving a fragmented system of federal, state, and local food programs to fill the gaps created by this loss. Critical steps are needed to repair our nation’s fragile ECE system, including greater investment in CACFP, to ensure the nutrition, health, and development of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
AB - The emergence of COVID-19 in the United States led most states to close or severely limit the capacity of their early child-care and education (ECE) programs. This loss affected millions of young children, including many of the 4.6 million low-income children who are provided free meals and snacks by their ECE programs through support from the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Although Congress swiftly authorized waivers that would allow CACFP-participating ECE programs to continue distributing food to children, early evidence suggests that most ECE programs did not have the capacity to do so, leaving a fragmented system of federal, state, and local food programs to fill the gaps created by this loss. Critical steps are needed to repair our nation’s fragile ECE system, including greater investment in CACFP, to ensure the nutrition, health, and development of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305980
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305980
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33211589
AN - SCOPUS:85098674046
VL - 111
SP - 116
EP - 120
JO - American Journal of Public Health
JF - American Journal of Public Health
SN - 0090-0036
IS - 1
ER -