This webinar will highlight how clinicians and other healthcare providers who care for vulnerable children can play a role in addressing hunger in the summer months. Presenters will discuss food insecurity and describe how to connect children to resources such as the USDA’s Summer Meals Program and HRSA’s Community Health Center network. Additionally, participants will learn how a community health center can serve as a place where children access meals during the summer months and also be connected to important health and social services.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain how food insecurity impacts children and vulnerable families.
• Describe the purpose of the USDA Summer Meals Program.
• Identify how children can be connected to sites that serve meals.
• Describe the role clinicians and healthcare providers play in connecting children to summer meals.
• Discuss the role community health centers can play in providing summer meals to children in need.

 

Target Audience:  Dietitians, Physicians and Other Clinicians, Social Workers, Public Health, Healthcare

 

Tier(s) and Competency Domain(s):  Tier Two – Analytical/ Assessment Skills, Policy Development/ Program Planning Skills, Cultural Competency Skills, Community Dimensions of Practice Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills.

 

Duration:  1 hr. 20 min

 

Continuing Education Information:  1.5 CECH for CHES

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest

Format:  Web-based training, Self-Study

 

Created/Updated:  June 15, 2016

 

Presenters:

• Nidhi Jain, MD, MPH
• Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS
• Suzie Ahn