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Mobilizing and delivering essential meals to children and families affected by school closures during COVID-19 and beyond
ID Ryan, Benjamin J. (Author), ID Telford, Victoria (Author), ID Brickhouse, Mark (Author), ID Campbell, Jacqueline (Author), ID Crowe, Connor (Author), ID Fink, Rok (Author), ID Hatch, Kristy (Author), ID Hatch, Tim (Author), ID Jones, Reiley (Author), ID Cruz, Andrea S. (Author)

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Abstract
Background: The closure of schools in response to COVID-19 compromised access to essential meals for many students. The Emergency Meals-to-You program, a public/private partnership, was set up to address this challenge. More than 38.7 million meals were delivered between April and August 2020. This study explores lessons learned and identifies strategies for strengthening food access and security at schools and beyond. Methods: Qualitative research methods were used. This included interviews and focus groups with participants involved in setting up and delivering the Emergency Meals-to-You program. Data were thematically analyzed using key phrases, ideas, and concepts, and interpreted. Results: The program leveraged a multisectoral approach. Components relied on each other and included: schools, public/private partnership, eligibility, relationships, experience, centralized communication, food quality and branding, logistics, and transport. Strategies identified to strengthen food access focused on integration with emergency management structures, understanding food needs at the school level, building a fully procurable menu, and allowing distribution to be rapidly scaled. Conclusions: The lessons identified and strategies recommended provide a framework for working across the emergency management spectrum (school to national level) to strengthen food access and availability for students and their families affected by a pandemic, disaster, or crisis situation.

Language:English
Keywords:food access, essential meals, school closure, COVID-19, education
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:ZF - Faculty of Health Sciences
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:01.01.2022
Year:2022
Number of pages:Str. 646-655
Numbering:Vol. 92, no. 7
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-142789 This link opens in a new window
UDC:613.2:616-036.22
ISSN on article:1746-1561
DOI:10.1111/josh.13188 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:106513155 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:25.11.2022
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Title:The Journal of school health
Shortened title:J. sch. health
Publisher:American School Health Association, Blackwell
ISSN:1746-1561
COBISS.SI-ID:517774361 This link opens in a new window

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License:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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Language:Undetermined
Keywords:dostop do hrane, nujni obroki, zaprtje šol, COVID-19, izobraževanje

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