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食品和家庭供应资源
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食品不安全
美国.S. Department of Agriculture describes two categories of food insecurity: low food security and very low food security. 美国SDA describes those with low food security as having to cut back on the “quality, variety, or desirability of diet” with “little or no indication of reduced food intake.” Very low food security is when there are “multiple indications of disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake.”
Hunger on Campus found food insecurity to be an issue nontraditional and first-generation students especially face, as well as students of color. 粮食和住房不安全 can affect a student’s ability to succeed in getting an education, as over half of students with food or housing insecurity reported missing class or not buying a textbook, and one in four said they’ve had to drop a class.
住房紧张
美国.S. Department of Health and Human Services says five conditions define housing instability: high housing costs, poor housing quality, unstable neighborhoods, overcrowding, 和无家可归. If a household is paying more than 30% of its income on housing, it could be considered as facing housing insecurity. 住在一个有 high crime rates or having more residents in a home than intended can also be signs 住房不安全
数据从 美国供养
Food insecurity has the potential to harm college students’ ability to achieve their 教育和职业目标.
The demographic makeup of the college student population has changed in recent decades. According to a 2018 Government Accountability Office report, less than one-third are “traditional” students, whose characteristics include being enrolled full-time in college directly after high school while remaining financially dependent on their 父母. Instead, most college students (71%) are “nontraditional,” meaning they may possess the following characteristics: experience financial independence, are enrolled part-time, work full-time while in school, are caretakers for dependents, and/or did not receive a traditional high school diploma. 此外，大学生是 entering school later than students in the past: the average age at first enrollment is 21, and the overall average age of students is 26. 因此，许多大学生 are balancing schoolwork with parenting, with 22% of students caring for child dependents 14%的人是单亲父母. Overall, the share of college students with low household incomes has increased, and when these factors are combined with the rising cost of education, many adult students are struggling to make ends meet.
Food banks have responded to need 在大学九游会国际里 with brick-and-mortar food pantries 在大学九游会国际里, mobile pantries that distribute on or near campuses, SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) application assistance, and more. 同时意识到存在 of such approaches is growing, there has been a lack of knowledge and evidence about the role of the charitable food sector in serving college students, which constrains opportunities for strategic coordination.
Supported by The Kresge Foundation, 美国供养 partnered with Claremont Graduate University to better understand 1) how network food banks are addressing college food insecurity in their communities, and 2) how college students are experiencing college 饥饿. For the first phase, the evaluation team leveraged interviews with select food banks and a survey, open to the entire 美国供养 Network (200 food banks), to explore the landscape of charitable services to address 饥饿 在大学九游会国际里. In the second phase, the evaluation team held listening sessions at three college campuses and conducted interviews with pantry staff and campus administrators to learn more about challenges and opportunities in addressing 饥饿 在大学九游会国际里.
Key findings from the college 饥饿 study include:
- Of the 150 food banks that responded to the survey, 129 food banks in the Feeding America network are working to address 饥饿 among college students.
- 110 food banks distribute food directly to college students, which is the most common approach to addressing college 饥饿, followed by assisting students with completing the SNAP application (39 food banks), and policy and advocacy efforts (33 food banks).
- 美国供养 food banks operate 316 pantries and 124 mobile pantry distributions 在大学九游会国际里.
- Food banks encounter facilitators and barriers to successful college 饥饿 activities that fall into one of four categories: 1) Relationships/partnerships, 2) Awareness, 3)访问，4)操作