Screen & Intervene: Addressing Food Insecurity Webinar

Join us on Thursday, May 6th @ 12pm-1pm 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

This webinar is made possible thanks to the support of the Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation.