Download or read book Foodbank WA School Breakfast Program Research written by TNS Australia and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food relief organisation Foodbank WA operates a School Breakfast Program to help children in low socioeconomic areas of Western Australia. They commissioned this independent qualitative evaluation to explore how well the program was providing positive outcomes for children, teachers, parents, and the school community. Case studies was undertaken in two metropolitan primary schools, one regional secondary school, and one remote secondary school, involving focus groups and interviews with stakeholders, school leaders and administrators, teachers, parents, program volunteers and coordinators, school nurses, and children. This report discusses the findings and presents recommendations for developing the program. The findings indicate that the program is reaching several segments of children, including those who are frequently food insecure, those experiencing only occasional financial hardship, those with low food motivation, and those consuming unhealthy breakfasts.
Download or read book School Breakfast Program written by Matt Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents findings from Foodbank WA's annual survey of its school breakfast program. Food relief organisation Foodbank WA provides products for schools to deliver healthy breakfasts and emergency meals to students in need across Western Australia. After starting with 17 schools in 2001 it now serves more than 430 schools per year and directly reaches more than 17,000 students. The survey findings will help assess the impact of the program on schools and students and identify aspects of the program that are working effectively and those that may require improvement. 354 schools participated in this 2013 survey, providing information by region on number and proportion of students accessing the program, students from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, types of food provided, food quality and selection, days of service, provision of emergency lunches or other meals using breakfast program products, and perceived impact on punctuality, student attendance, behaviour, concentration, academic outcomes, social skills, class engagement, physical and mental health, harmful lifestyle behaviours, awareness of healthy eating, food selection and food preparation skills, relations between students and school staff, relations between students and community members. Participants were also asked about how they managed their program, use of volunteers, food delivery, use of support resources, and challenges.
Download or read book Evaluation of the Foodbank WA School Breakfast and Nutrition Education Program written by Edith Cowan University and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The School Breakfast and Nutrition Education Program (SBNEP) is a state government initiative to improve the nutrition and wellbeing of vulnerable children in Western Australia. It is delivered by food relief organisation Foodbank WA and - after starting with 17 schools in 2001 - now serves more than 430 schools per year and directly reaches more than 17,000 students. A three-year long evaluation is underway to program's impacts and implementation. This report presents preliminary results and findings from the second year of the evaluation. The program has two components: the Breakfast Program, which provides products for schools to deliver healthy breakfasts and emergency meals to students in need; and the 'Food Sensations' nutrition and cooking education program. The evaluation will assess the impact on children's nutrition and wellbeing, capacity for learning, and attitudes and knowledge regarding healthy food, as well as cost effectiveness, local human capacity and community cohesiveness, stakeholder satisfaction, and the factors affecting its implementation and operations.
Download or read book Evaluation of Foodbank WA s School Breakfast and Nutrition Education Program written by Edith Cowan University and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The School Breakfast and Nutrition Education Program (SBNEP) is a state government initiative to improve the nutrition and wellbeing of vulnerable children in Western Australia. It is delivered by food relief organisation Foodbank WA and - after starting with 17 schools in 2001 - now serves more than 430 schools per year and directly reaches more than 17,000 students. A three-year long evaluation is underway to program's impacts and implementation. This report presents preliminary results and findings from the first year of the evaluation. The program has two components: the Breakfast Program, which provides products for schools to deliver healthy breakfasts and emergency meals to students in need; and the 'Food Sensations' nutrition and cooking education program. The evaluation will assess the impact on children's nutrition and wellbeing, capacity for learning, and attitudes and knowledge regarding healthy food, as well as cost effectiveness, local human capacity and community cohesiveness, stakeholder satisfaction, and the factors affecting its implementation and operations. This 2015 report briefly describes the overall progress of the evaluation then presents findings from the first major data collection of the project: a survey of schools that participated in the School Breakfast Program during 2015.
Download or read book School Breakfast Program written by Christina Davies and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents findings from Foodbank WA's annual survey of its school breakfast program. Food relief organisation Foodbank WA provides products for schools to deliver healthy breakfasts and emergency meals to students in need across Western Australia. After starting with 17 schools in 2001 it now serves 369 schools per year and directly reaches more than 12,500 children. The survey findings will help assess the impact of the program on schools and students and identify aspects of the program that are working effectively and those that may require improvement. 271 schools participated in this 2011 survey, providing information by region on number and proportion of students accessing the program, types of food provided, food quality and selection, days of service, provision of emergency lunches or other meals using breakfast program products, and perceived impact on punctuality, student attendance, behaviour, concentration, social skills, class engagement, physical and mental health, awareness of healthy eating, and relations between students and school staff and community members. Participants were also asked about how they managed their program, use of volunteers, food delivery, use of support resources, and challenges.
Download or read book School Breakfast Program written by Judi Bartfeld and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) is much less common than participation in the Nat. School Lunch Program, even among children with access to both programs. This report examines participation in the SBP among 3rd grade public school students, as well as the impacts of the program on food insecurity and children's risk of skipping breakfast. Students are more likely to participate when breakfast is served in the classroom, when time available for breakfast in school is longer, and when they come from lower income or time-constrained households. Children with access to the SBP are more likely to eat breakfast in the morning and that program access may enhance food security among families at the margin of food insecurity. Illus.
Download or read book School Breakfast Program written by Christina Mills and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents findings from Foodbank WA's annual survey of its school breakfast program. Food relief organisation Foodbank WA provides products for schools to deliver healthy breakfasts and emergency meals to students in need across Western Australia. After starting with 17 schools in 2001 it now serves 317 schools per year. The survey findings will help assess the impact of the program on schools and students and identify aspects of the program that are working effectively and those that may require improvement. 261 schools participated in this 2010 survey, providing information by region on number and proportion of students accessing the program, types of food provided, food quality and selection, days of service, provision of emergency lunches or other meals using breakfast program products, and perceived impact on punctuality, student attendance, behaviour, concentration, social skills, class engagement, physical and mental health, awareness of healthy eating, and relations between students and school staff and community members. Participants were also asked about how they managed their program, use of volunteers, food delivery, use of support resources, and challenges.
Download or read book School Breakfast Program written by Christina Davies and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents findings from Foodbank WA's annual survey of its school breakfast program. Food relief organisation Foodbank WA has been providing products for schools to deliver healthy breakfasts and emergency meals to students in need across Western Australia since 2001. The survey findings will help assess the impact of the program on schools and students and identify aspects of the program that are working effectively and those that may require improvement. 333 schools participated in this 2012 survey, providing information by region on number and proportion of students accessing the program, students from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, types of food provided, food quality and selection, days of service, provision of emergency lunches or other meals using breakfast program products, and perceived impact on punctuality, student attendance, behaviour, concentration, social skills, class engagement, physical and mental health, awareness of healthy eating, and relations between students and school staff and community members. Participants were also asked about how they managed their program, use of volunteers, food delivery, use of support resources, and challenges.
Download or read book Action Research written by Ernest T. Stringer and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Edition of Ernest T. Stringer’s best-selling Action Research offers easy-to-follow, clear guidelines that enable novice practitioner researchers to move comfortably through a process of inquiry and applied research. Featuring real-life examples and providing effective solutions that foster understanding of research procedures in real-life contexts, the book offers a simple but highly effective model for approaching action research: Look: building a picture and gathering information, Think: interpreting and explaining, and Act: resolving issues and problems. Using his own experience as a guide, Stringer encourages readers to grapple with the broader political and ethical challenges that frame each inquiry. The author’s engaging style makes the book especially relevant to those working with children, young adults, or people in community contexts, and is particularly relevant to those dealing with issues of diversity or with marginalized and disenfranchised groups. Clear, concise, and practical, Stringer’s accessible and engaging book is a must for students and professionals in educational, business, health, counseling, and social work settings.
Download or read book The Future of School Breakfast written by Katie Mosehauer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School breakfast is associated with a host of positive outcomes, such as improved health and attendance, reduced behavioral problems, and increased academic achievement. Unfortunately, a majority of Washington students who qualify for free or reduced-price breakfasts do not currently receive one at school, with many students eating no breakfast at all. This report assesses how the current operation of the school breakfast program is serving Washington students, how innovative school and district policies are making a difference for students in Washington and across the country, and how new policies at the state and federal level can change the course of low breakfast participation trends and maximize the benefits of school breakfast for students and their families. Research found that "Breakfast After the Bell," meaning any food service model that provides students the opportunity to eat breakfast after the first bell of the instructional day, has been effective in transforming school breakfast programs, and mandating breakfast programs was significantly more effective in increasing school breakfast participation and reducing the risk of hunger. A list of key terms is included. The following are appended: (1) Health Impacts of Breakfast; (2) The Cognitive Impacts of Breakfast; (3) Nuts and Bolts of Breakfast Service Models; (4) History of Policy and State Investment in the School Breakfast Program in Washington State; (5) OSPI Estimates on Washington School Districts Qualifying for Community Eligibility; (6) Estimates on Individual Schools Qualifying for Community Eligibility; (7) Alternatives to the Use of Free and Reduced-Price Eligibility on the Allocation of State and Federal Funds; and (8) Technical Notes on Appleseed's Economic Model for School Meal Funding.
Download or read book Expanding the School Breakfast Program written by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School meals programs are the front line of defense against childhood hunger, and while the school lunch program is nearly universally available in U.S. public schools, the school breakfast program has lagged behind in terms of availability and participation. In this paper we use experimental data collected by the USDA to measure the impact of two popular policy innovations aimed at increasing access to the school breakfast program. The first, universal free school breakfast, provides a hot breakfast before school (typically served in the school's cafeteria) to all students regardless of their income eligibility for free or reduced-price meals. The second is the Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC) program that provides free school breakfast to all children to be eaten in the classroom during the first few minutes of the school day. We find both policies increase the take-up rate of school breakfast, though much of this reflects shifting breakfast consumption from home to school or consumption of multiple breakfasts and relatively little of the increase is from students gaining access to breakfast. We find little evidence of overall improvements in child 24-hour nutritional intake, health, behavior or achievement, with some evidence of health and behavior improvements among specific subpopulations.
Download or read book Factors Influencing School and Student Participation in the School Breakfast Program 1977 78 written by United States. Food and Nutrition Service. Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book If We Had Ham We Could Have Ham and Eggs If We Had Eggs written by Food Research and Action Center and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Breakfast and School Lunch Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These hearing transcripts present testimony to the Senate Committee on Agriculture regarding the School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. Statements were made by several senators, the president of the American School Food Service Association (Connecticut); a school food service program director (Florida); the director of nutrition and education for the American School Food Service Association (Virginia); the director of the Children's Nutrition Research Center (Texas); the vice president of Food Operations at Disneyland Resort and Concept Development (California); and an assistant professor of clinical dietetics and nutrition, University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). Witnesses maintained that the Nutrition Education and Training Program needs funding to maintain its current service level. It is necessary to modify the School Lunch Program to encourage student participation, make it easier for schools for qualify, and to reduce the administrative burden. Testimony also indicated that breakfast programs are vital to student nutrition, academic performance, and school attendance. School food service has become more efficient and more consumer-oriented, has expanded to supply meals to new audiences, and has increased the flexibility of service delivery. However, it is necessary to integrate food service within the educational day to enhance student nutrition knowledge and practice. Offering food choices may reduce food waste. The solution to major childhood nutritional problems is to apply current information to improve children's diets and to support nutrition research. An appendix to the transcripts contains additional statements, letters, and materials submitted. (KB)
Download or read book Evaluation of the School Breakfast Program Pilot Project written by Lawrence S. Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, Congress authorized the School Breakfast Program Pilot Project (SBPP) to study the implementation and effects of providing universal free school breakfast in six school districts across the United States. For three years, from School Year (SY) 2000-2001 through SY 2002-2003, these six school districts received federal funds to offer school breakfasts free of charge, regardless of family income, to students in a number of elementary schools that were matched on a number of characteristics, then randomly assigned to either treatment or control status. The control schools continued to offer the regular School Breakfast Program (SBP), which provides free or reduced-price breakfasts to eligible students from low-income families. Over the course of the three years of the pilot project, data were collected from all participating schools for an evaluation of the implementation and impact of providing universal-free school breakfast. The current report serves as the final report of findings from the SBPP. It provides impact estimates for a smaller set of outcomes, based on data collected over the remaining two years of the pilot, and integrates the findings from all three years of the SBPP. This report also presents findings from an additional set of analyses undertaken to address a set of questions that have been raised by policy makers and other stakeholders since the release of the first year report. These include analyses focused on students who do not eat breakfast ("breakfast skippers") and those who eat a nutritionally robust or "substantive breakfast"; variations in the breakfast setting (i.e., school versus home, classroom versus other school location); characteristics of students in food insecure households; and differences in student outcomes by household income level. The remaining sections of this chapter provide background information about the SBP; a brief summary of research on the relationship between breakfast and student outcomes; an overview of the SBPP, including a review of the conceptual model for understanding the pilot project; a summary of the findings in the interim report on Year 1 findings, and a description of the purpose and contents of this final report.
Download or read book Education and Equity in Times of Crisis written by Emily S. Rudling and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how educational equity is affected during crises – specifically the COVID-19 pandemic. Three key concerns emerge for children’s and young people’s education: material needs, emotional wellbeing, and access to learning. The evidence highlights how pre-existing educational inequalities were exacerbated as well as altered during the global pandemic. Critical reviews of educational vulnerability and of significant crises over the past century provide the book’s foundation. Then, drawing on empirical research from Australia and extensive analysis of international documentation, the book demonstrates significant detriments that pandemic responses caused to formal learning and the broader support role of schools and also addresses promising educational innovations. The book is important not only for scholars in education, but also for practitioners and governments to inform how to better support learning as well as material and emotional wellbeing during and after crises, especially for children and young people experiencing disadvantage.
Download or read book A Case Study of Student and Staff Perceptions of the School Breakfast Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research suggests that participation in the School Breakfast Program positively impacts academic success by improving student behavior, cognitive functioning, and attendance. Additionally, the School Breakfast Program appears to improve food insecurity, overall health and weight-related issues. However, compared to the National School Lunch Program, participation in the School Breakfast Program has been historically low, especially at the high school level. Using an integrated composite framework, a combination of social cognitive theory and ecological systems theory, as the conceptual model, this qualitative case study explored factors influencing student breakfast eating and participation in the school's breakfast program within a college-preparatory high school serving culturally diverse, predominantly low-income students. I used an all-staff survey as a qualitative data collection tool, and semi-structured interviews with school staff, student focus groups, and a Draw-A-High-School-Student-Breakfast Test to collect qualitative data. Using thematic networks as an analysis tool, I examined the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of school staff and students about breakfast eating and participation in the school's breakfast program. The study found that communication about the School Breakfast Program, arriving to school in time to eat, and relationships with food service staff, influence participation in the School Breakfast Program. The findings are discussed in terms of their significance on practice and policy within both education and public health sectors. The study concludes with recommendations for future research.
