For thousands of people in Rhode Island, school breakfast is a daily necessity, not an abstract concept. Check out their stories to learn how universal school breakfast programs can bring educational, health, economic, and social benefits to our community.
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< EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS >
TESTIMONIES FROM RHODE ISLAND TEACHERS
Teacher Clip 1: “It would be an injustice to cut the funding”
Teacher Clip 2: “School breakfast fuels your brain”
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< HEALTH BENEFITS >
TESTIMONIES FROM RHODE ISLAND NURSES
Nurse Clip 1: “It’s no rocket science!” -the children need it
Nurse Clip 2: Breakfast = “incredible education and health benefits”
Nurse Clip 3: Why Universal Programs?
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< ECONOMIC BENEFITS >
TESTIMONIES FROM POLICY RESEARCHERS
Researcher Clip 1: “Universal Program is the Best Policy Choice”
Researcher Clip 2: “It makes economic sense!”
Professor Clip 1: “A policy to keep Rhode Island a good place to raise families”
< COMMUNITY BENEFITS >
TESTIMONIES FROM
COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS and SOCIAL WORKERS
Organizer Clip 1: “An investment in the community in these hard times”
Organizer Clip 2: “Universal takes away stigma, encourages participation”
Social Worker Clip 1: “We cannot take food for granted”
Social Worker Clip 2: “Food is getting too expensive -school breakfast helps”
1 response so far ↓
Janet Poppendieck // June 17, 2008 at 11:04 pm |
These video clips are terrific. I’d like to know more about this project–who made these videos, and who hosts this website? I am planning to teach a course on “Hunger in America” this fall at Hunter College, City University of New York, where I am a professor of Sociology. I am wondering if my students might be able to do something similar; we have universal free breakfast in New York City, but it seems to me that video might be a tool we could use to increase participation.
Also, I’m writing a book on school meals and would like to know a bit more about the Rhode Island School Breakfast Campaign. I interviewed staff and community activists at the Wiley Center when I began this project in 2003, but it has taken me so long that I’m greatly in need of an update. Did the State cut breakfast funding as was threatened in February (2008)? What is the status of H-7403 and S-2347?
Best wishes,