Sentences with phrase «food assistance»

We help animals and people through our spay / neuter services, by finding loving homes for animals, and through our supplemental pet food assistance program for low - income families.

Because we're solving that problem head on by providing emergency pet food assistance for the hungry pets of people when they need us most.

The budget agreement also increases funding for the city's district attorneys by $ 22 million, and emergency food assistance — another negotiating point — by $ 5 million.

The state ranks near the bottom in enrolling people for food assistance.

According to the report, because teens are particularly sensitive to peer approval, a fear of social stigma can prevent them from taking advantage of food assistance even when it's available.

People can stop by our center any time and receive pet food assistance as well.

You may come in once a month to receive food assistance.

In food insecure households, federal food assistance program participation generally decreased the odds of being at risk of overweight in girls but not boys.

It also makes vital reforms subsidy programs that we can no longer afford by ending certain subsidies, consolidating other agriculture programs, and cracking down on food assistance abuse.

Lastly, I was disappointed not to hear brought up how many low income families rely at least partially on government funded food assistance programs.

The government offered food assistance starting as early as the 1930s.

So, for now, she has to supplement her income with food assistance from the government, she told me, something she never would have imagined.

The organisation also said at least 4.5 million people in the region would be needing urgent food assistance.

We have back - pack programs for students who need weekend food assistance.

Many food banks and local human - services organizations offer pet and equine food assistance.

A second goal of this study was to identify associations between household food security status, food assistance program participation, and child weight status.

We provide pet food assistance to people in need.

It imposes new requirements on low - income recipients of food assistance, but continues traditional subsidies for farmers.

I believe we have a societal responsibility to provide federal food assistance to kids in economic need and she doesn't.

Pantry 4 Paws Pet Food Assistance Program through Tail Waggers in Livonia is designed to help meet the needs of your dog or cat during difficult times.

He made his greatest mark as a pioneering innovator in efforts to improve access to healthy local food for lower - income and older Americans — as a public official and as a co-founder of Wholesome Wave, a Connecticut - based non-profit best known for its program to double the dollar amount of healthy food that individuals can purchase using federal food assistance benefits.

Many animal shelters understand that people struggle financially and offer pet food assistance through local food pantries to help ease the burden.

However... I think it's dangerously simplistic to assert that cutting food assistance programs or repealing food - related legislation will force people to take personal responsibility for feeding their children nutritious food.

Approximately 160,000 different people in NC receive emergency food assistance in any given week.

As a Museums for All partner, we offer any Illinois family that qualifies for state food assistance and is in possession of an EBT or WIC card, admission to the museum for up to 6 people for $ 3.

Wednesdays in the garden A series taught by Arlington Food Assistance Center volunteers and VCE Master Gardeners about «Pollination, Pollinators and Flowers.»

Your donation helps fund programs that will target low - income, elderly, and disabled citizens, helping them to keep their beloved pet in their home rather than turning it over to a humane society or city «pound» by providing food assistance, low - cost spay - neuter services, and low / no - cost wellness clinics.

211 is a statewide number for information and referrals to a variety of health and human services, including food assistance.

The total request for emergency food assistance increased 3.3 percent in Chicago when data for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006, are compared with the previous fiscal year, according to the survey, released in December.

Your support of our work helps more Maryland families connect to available food assistance programs that can help put food on the table, and improve access to healthy, affordable food.

Wednesdays in the garden Arlington Food Assistance Center volunteers and VCE Master Gardeners discuss: «Hydroponics and PVC Pipe Gardening,» Wednesday; «Vegetables for Fall,» Aug. 17; «Preparing the Garden for Winter, Tool Care,» Aug. 24.

And thanks to the fine work of Fincher and his colleagues, 2 million working American families, children and seniors have already been cut off from food assistance.

Low - income mothers who use food assistance programs face a high level of surveillance over their children's health and weight, new UBC research suggests.

To criticize the parents of children who require food assistance is insensitive.

The doubling of world wheat, rice, and corn prices has sharply reduced the availability of food aid, putting the 37 countries that depend on the WFP's emergency food assistance at risk.

By working with the local food assistance center, I founded a program to send those products to needy families.»

We pray today for the half a million people in the UK reliant on food assistance last year.

was kept out of the landfill and redistributed to food assistance agencies through Food Runners.

I believe these headlines are referring to Trump's desire to eliminate the McGovern - Dole International Food for Education program, which provides school food assistance to impoverished children outside the United States.

Fighting child hunger requires a holistic approach, from support programs like BIC and sharing resources that increase knowledge about this issue, to protecting federal food assistance services like the School Breakfast Program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

On average, 23 percent of requests for emergency food assistance nationwide are thought to have gone unmet last year, according to a survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Sodexho Inc., a food - and facilities - management company.

Programs that promote breastfeeding and ensure access to nutritious foods, such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, the school meals and summer feeding programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and child care food assistance, improve health outcomes, school achievement, and workforce competitiveness.

But to nearby residents and a suburban food assistance group, the year - old Cornerstone Park is a critical link in supplying nutritious weekday lunches this summer to children living in that economically distressed area.

We need to fix school lunches so they're based on fresh foods, and fix food assistance programs so people have greater access to healthier foods.»

Ilia Rodríguez visited the center to inquire about food assistance, housing and medical services.

The Buffalo Niagara region ranked fifth out of the nation's 50 biggest metropolitan areas in 2014, for the proportion of local households getting food assistance.

Food carryout bags would be excluded, and people using food stamps or other food assistance benefits wouldn't pay the fee.

Republicans are trying to pass a farm bill that would take food assistance away from over 2 million people, mere months after handing the wealthy and corporations trillions of dollars in tax cuts.