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Universal School Meals Improve Attendance for Youngest Students

Report

Feb 17, 2023

Anna Merod for K-12 DIVE

The findings from a Syracuse University study linking universal school meal policies with improved school attendance for young students provides a strong case for expanding free school meals, according to school nutrition and attendance experts.

How Health Centers Can Promote Benefits of Exercise to Diabetic Public Housing Residents and Promising Practices

Publication

Sep 23, 2022

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Getting regular exercise can be a challenge, but there are many positive benefits, particularly for people with diabetes.

Finding Healthy Food

Publication

Sep 23, 2022

National Center for Health in Public Housing

The Effects of ‘Food Deserts’ on Public Housing Residents Living with Diabetes

How Health Centers Can Promote Benefits of Exercise to Diabetic Public Housing Residents and Promising Practices

Publication

Sep 23, 2022

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Getting regular exercise can be a challenge, but there are many positive benefits, particularly for people with diabetes.

CLPHA Housing Is Summit 2022: Meeting Families' Needs Including Child Care in Housing Developments

Video

Jun 17, 2022

The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) will moderate a unique cross-sector panel of housing and early care and education (ECE) experts on strategies and best practices for co-locating ECE facilities within affordable housing developments.

New Community | Feb 18, 2021

CDP Sub-Grantees

Through CLPHA’s grant from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s (CDP) COVID-19 Response Fund, ten sub-grants were given to member PHAs across the country to meet the ongoing needs of residents during this pandemic. Recipients will use their grants to meet immediate and locally defined needs in the areas of public health, education, employment, and basic urgent needs of their residents that have been exacerbated by COVID-19 for a wide range of projects.

It's Not the Food Deserts: It's the Inequality

Research

Jan 18, 2018

Richard Florida for BLOOMBERG CITYLAB

Too many Americans are overweight and eat unhealthy food, a problem that falls disproportionately on poor and low-income people.

CLPHA Education Working Group: Reducing Barriers to Education with Urban Strategies, Inc.

Webinar

Dec 18, 2019

CLPHA's education working group held a webinar on Tuesday, October 8, 2:00-3:00pm ET with presentations from Urban Strategies, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that specializes in results informed human services development, planning, and strategy implementation as part of comprehensive neig

Keeping Kids Healthy and Engaged When School is Out Through Public and Affordable Housing Communities

Policy Brief

Dec 4, 2019

In California, more than 3.7 million students were eligible for free or reduced priced school meals in the 2017-2018 school year. For many of those students, school meals are the primary source of regular access to healthy food.

Reducing Cost-of-Living Adjustment Would Make Poverty Line a Less Accurate Measure of Basic Needs

Publication

Jun 11, 2019

Arloc Sherman and Paul Van de Water for The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The Trump Administration is publicly weighing plans to gradually lower the official poverty line by applying a smaller cost-of-living adjustment each year. Doing so would be unjustified for several reasons.