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PA child welfare agencies struggling to fix cracks in a broken system

PA child welfare agencies struggling to fix cracks in a broken system
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PA child welfare agencies struggling to fix cracks in a broken system

PA child welfare agencies struggling to fix cracks in a broken system
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A year into the pandemic, there s good news, bad news about child care closures in Philly

Pa families set to receive $1 billion due to missed school meals — WHYY

2 weeks ago Vonda Ramp, Pennsylvania Department of Education director of child nutrition programs, said while schools and communities have made strong efforts to provide free meals, families are still in need. Ramp pointed to grab-and-go meals and curbside meal pick-up programs. These are things that schools ”were never able to do before,” said Ramp. In the last year, Pennsylvania provided about 144 million meals to families. The USDA recently announced that many of those programs will continue into the summer months and the 2021-22 school year. But, Ramp said, the need for cash assistance remains. “Despite the tremendous efforts of schools and communities,” said Ramp, “students and families may not be able to access all of the meals provided by schools.”

Pennsylvania Families Set To Receive $1 Billion In Relief Due To Missed School Meals During Virtual School

The serving area in the Mt. Lebanon High School. About one million Pennsylvania children enrolled in public schools will begin receiving a combined $1 billion in cash assistance this week through the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program. Eligibility is limited to students who receive free or reduced school lunch who attended virtual school in 2020-21. The federal relief funds are meant to make up for the added food expenses families faced without access to school meals. “Food insecurity was a serious public health risk before the pandemic, said Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Acting Secretary Meg Snead. “And the last year has exacerbated that.”

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