During the school year, suburban families can turn to school meals to help feed their school-age children. But for many children, summer vacation brings an end to the healthy school meals. Too often their families lack the resources to make up the deficit. USDA’s...
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is our nation’s #1 defense against hunger. SNAP is a powerful anti-hunger tool that helps put food on the tables of America’s most vulnerable citizens, and improves health outcomes for children. A major funding...
PCCY found that nearly 30,000 more children in the Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties depend on SNAP (Food Stamps) than in 2008. Also, less than a third of eligible students participate in school breakfast programs. Click on the links below for a brief...
The EITC is the nation’s most effective program to lift working families out of poverty. It is designed to “make work pay” by supplementing the earnings of workers with low household incomes. The CTC helps families make ends meet by both rewarding work and recognizing...
Children First offers free, comprehensive training sessions on children’s health insurance to groups all across southeastern Pennsylvania. The trainings typically last 90 minutes and cover two sessions: Session 1: An overview of children’s public health insurance...
