1 in 7 U.S. Children Live In A Household Experiencing Food Insecurity-Help Address Food Insecurity In Webinar Next Thursday!
Join us on Thursday, May 6th at 12:00-1:00 pm for the Screen & Intervene: Addressing Food Insecurity webinar to learn how pediatricians can play a critical role in addressing food insecurity, a health-related unmet social need with harmful impacts on child health, development, and well-being. 1 CME credit is available for attending!
The webinar will highlight the newly released Food Research & Action (FRAC) and American Academy of Pediatrics free toolkit and help pediatricians, their practice teams, and community partners:
- LEARN about food insecurity, including rates among families with children, its negative impacts on child health, development, and well-being, and how it may present in a family;
- SCREEN for food insecurity by using Hunger Vital Sign™ (this is a validated two-question screening tool developed by Children’s HealthWatch);
- CONNECT families to federal nutrition programs and other state and local community resources; and
- SUPPORT national and local policies that address food insecurity and its root causes, including poverty, inadequate wages, housing insecurity, food deserts, and structural racism.
Presenters:
- Alexandra Ashbrook, JD, LLM Director, Special Projects & Initiatives, Food Research & Action Center
- Kofi Essel, MD, MPH, FAAP Community Pediatrician, Children’s National Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Community & Urban Health Scholarly Concentration, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
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