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Poverty-Hunger/ Food Insecurity
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Description: A "Hot Topic" compilation of resources to increase awareness of food insecurity and to help those who struggle with this problem.
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Description: A website for Community Action Partnership, which serves to be a national forum for policy on poverty and to strengthen, promote, represent and serve its network of member agencies to assure that the issues of the poor are effectively heard and addressed. Includes links to training opportunities, events, research, and publications.
Description: Information about community gardening programs for families, children and communities.
Left, Right, or Ahead: Creating a New Domestic Policy Framework 
Author: Brown, J.
Description: This keynote address was presented by Dr. J. Larry Brown at CYFAR 2002. It discusses poverty and presents a new domestic policy framework based on asset-building policy.
New Community of Practice: Families and Economic Crisis
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: CYFERnet has launched an online community of practice devoted to families navigating economic crisis. The current economy has plunged some families into economic crisis for the first time, and further aggravated families who have been financially stressed for some time. Join this group to find out what new practices are being developed to help families cope, to share your input and observations, and to contribute to new publishing on this subject, which could stand the test of time.
Description: A video clip that takes viewers through a poverty simulation. It includes information about budgeting for poverty, including housing, transportation, food, and child care.
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Description: The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), formerly known as the Food and Consumer Service, administers the nutrition assistance programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The mission of FNS is to provide children and needy families better access to food and a more healthful diet through its food assistance programs and comprehensive nutrition education efforts.
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Description: Chapter 13 in a manual that addresses community strategies to help families become
self-sufficient. This chapter discusses issues associated with obtaining healthy food for low income families.
Food for your Community: Gleaning and Sharing
Author: Hundhammer, Marjorie
Description: A fact sheet describing steps in setting up a crop gleaning hunger relief project.
Author: Abi-Nader, Janette; Kendall Dunnigan; Kristen Markley
Description: This curriculum, framed around the topic of community gardens, presents basic community development how-to information such as community organizing, asset assessment, building partnerships, and facilitating meetings.
Description: A video clip that takes viewers through a poverty simulation. It includes information about budgeting for poverty, including housing, transportation, food, and child care.