2021 DONOR IMPACT REPORT
2021 DONOR IMPACT REPORT Appleseed's Team 2 Appleseed's Theory of Change
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Appleseed's Multi-System Approach to Poverty
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2021 Impact 5 EVIDENCE-BASED POLICYMAKING
CHILD HUNGER CHILD & FAMILY HOMELESSNESS FAMILY ECONOMIC STABILITY
Appleseed's Work Ahead 8 2020-2021 Donors
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Mission Statement New Mexico Appleseed's mission is to end poverty in New Mexico. We want to ensure that every child and family has the necessary support and opportunities to lift themselves out of poverty. We seek permanent and dramatic positive change.
Method New Mexico Appleseed focuses on systemic solutions to the causes and consequences of poverty. We work from the tiniest communities to the state, tribal and federal government to define problems and create solutions. New Mexico Appleseed's work is thoughtful, innovative, and effective. 2
WE SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS OF CHILD POVERTY
Dear Appleseed Friends, I have spent my entire career as an architect and business leader trying to make New Mexico a better place to live, raise a family, work and have a business. New Mexico, in many regards, is truly the Land of Enchantment. We have it all here: weather, authentic culture, natural resources, national labs, great research universities—however, New Mexico continues to stagnate as states around us are thriving. So much of what holds us back in our state is that the desperate levels of poverty and suffering have been waived off as unsolvable “problems." These “problems” can only be resolved through strategic, aggressive, targeted action. We need entrepreneurial thinking and people whose commitment to families and children is unwavering—and that is what the Board and staff of New Mexico Appleseed are laser focused on. Appleseed’s work is solution and action-oriented, using data to connect the dots and then challenging the status quo to innovate in finding creative “solutions” through public policy, coordination of services and cooperation of providers. If you are like me, you want your philanthropic dollars to make a dramatic difference in people’s lives and our community. This report inventories and highlights the amazing work being accomplished by the Appleseed team under the leadership of Jenny Ramo. I am asking you to join me in making as big a gift as you can, so that New Mexico Appleseed can continue to impact the lives of our fellow New Mexicans who are most in need.
2021 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dale R. Dekker, Chair Dekker/Perich/Sabatini Caroline Garcia, Treasurer KPMG LLP Linh Nguyen, Secretary Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group Kara Bobroff One Generation Sarah Brown Retired Dr. Veronica Garcia Retired Randi McGinn McGinn, Montoya, Love & Curry Dawn Nieto-Gouy Kiva Ventures Georgie Ortiz CliftonLarsonAllen Jennifer Ramo New Mexico Appleseed
Sincerely,
Dale R. Dekker Chair, Board of Directors
EMERITUS BOARD MEMBERS Cathy Allen Kyle Armstrong Anne Bingman Joseph Goldberg, Founding Chair Debbie Johnson Don Kidd* Gregory Levenson
Larry Lujan Lisa McCulloch Tony Monfiletto Lillian Montoya Robin Otten Bonnie Paisley Conchita Paz
Ann Rhoades Ruth Schifani Ernest Schmider John Ulrich *Deceased 1
Appleseed's Team Jennifer Ramo, Executive Director jramo@nmappleseed.org
Jennifer Ramo is the founder and Executive Director of New Mexico Appleseed. An experienced attorney, she designed New Mexico Appleseed’s effective system of change and created Appleseed’s first-in-the-nation programs such as the Hunger-Free Students’ Bill of Rights (prohibited lunch shaming children whose parents owe school meal debt), the Breakfast After the Bell law (requires all high poverty elementary schools to serve breakfast during the school day that has been replicated by over a dozen states and districts) and the Food Access Navigator project on the Navajo Nation (awarded a USDA innovation demonstration grant). Her anti-hunger and homelessness work has received international attention and been highlighted in the New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Le Monde, BBC and Al Jazeera, among others. Ms. Ramo’s professional focus is on multi-generational systems involvement and using community voice/ qualitative data and quantitative data to improve poverty outcomes. The lens of racial equity in the poverty arena is a natural extension of this work. Ms. Ramo is a graduate of Albuquerque Academy, the University of Southern California and Tulane Law School. She was a recipient of the Coro Fellowship.
Meghan Mead, Director of Law and Policy mmead@nmappleseed.org
Meghan Mead provides policy and legal expertise across all of Appleseed’s issue areas. She helps identify effective solutions to problems affecting child poverty, and advocates with local, state and federal partners for their implementation. Her work includes successful legislative advocacy to eliminate the reduced-price copays for school meals, securing funding for the Family Success Lab at the Department of Health, and providing technical support to state and local partners on issues around child homelessness, including improving identification. Prior to her work at New Mexico Appleseed, Ms. Mead was a practicing attorney for ten years, primarily focusing on health care and nonprofit tax and governance. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School and received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude in history and economics from Mount Holyoke College.
Daniel Valverde, Director of Strategy dvalverde@nmappleseed.org
Daniel Valverde is responsible for bringing awareness about child hunger issues across the state and helps support
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federal programs, such as school breakfast, school lunch, and after school meals. He helps assist after school programs in receiving free reimbursable meals and snacks using federal funds. He also works on Appleseed’s McKinney-Vento program. His work includes supporting school districts around the state with their McKinney-Vento programs, offering technical assistance, and identifying issues on the ground that require policy changes. Mr. Valverde received his bachelor's degree in anthropology at Eastern New Mexico University, and his master's degree in cultural anthropology and food studies at New Mexico State University.
Rosalie Nava, Director of Research, Equity and Community Empowerment rnava@nmappleseed.org
With a background in public health and social work, Rosalie Nava brings expertise in equity issues and program management. She helped develop trainings and educational material for school districts prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ms. Nava received master’s degrees in social work and public health from New Mexico State University. She served in the United States Peace Corps as a community educator and micro-business developer in the South Pacific, Kingdom of Tonga from 2006-2008.
Rebecca Anderson, Director of Advancement randerson@nmappleseed.org
Rebecca Anderson has extensive experience in multichannel fundraising campaigns, communication management, and public information campaigns. She has directed fundraising and communications campaigns for non-profits and social enterprises focused on college-readiness, poverty-alleviation, and advocacy for students with learning differences. Ms. Anderson received her undergraduate degree in English from Colorado College and pursued postgraduate studies in graphic design and visual communication at the Rhode Island School of Design and Colorado State University.
Karen Burbank, Director of Administration kburbank@nmappleseed.org
Karen Burbank has comprehensive administrative, bookkeeping, and office management experience. She also has extensive experience with event coordination, inventory and controls, fundraising, and publications. Ms. Burbank has worked for both for-profit and nonprofits, is known for her attention to every detail, and brings outstanding operations assurance and accurate and timely accounting and reporting administration. She holds multiple degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating cum laude with both a Bachelor’s in Japanese language and, through Amherst College, a Bachelor’s in Art History.
WE SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS OF CHILD POVERTY
Appleseed's Theory of Change New Mexico Appleseed corrects structural barriers to opportunity by designing and advocating for effective solutions to poverty through policy, legislative, and market-based reform. While many organizations offer important direct services—serve meals, educate children, and assist underserved communities—New Mexico Appleseed’s goal is to make systemic change that yields permanent or long term improvement on issues like hunger, homelessness, family economic security, child maltreatment and education. New Mexico Appleseed designs, tests, and implements practical solutions that address the causes and consequences of poverty.
COMMUNITY FOCUSED
COLLABORATION RIGOROUS & EMPOWERMENT RESEARCH
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NEW MEXICO APPLESEED MAKES CHANGES AT THE SYSTEMS LEVEL TO ENSURE HIGH-IMPACT AND LASTING CHANGE. NEW MEXICO APPLESEED ADDRESSES THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF POVERTY.
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Appleseed's Multi-System Approach to Poverty The problem: New Mexico works in silos to address problems that exist across systems—only treating the symptoms of poverty and not the root causes. Despite all best and well-intentioned efforts by government and philanthropy, too many New Mexican families are unable to escape the inter-generational effects of poverty. All of New Mexico Appleseed's work uses a multi-dimensional lens to address the complex root causes of poverty. Ample research shows that many symptoms of vulnerable families are causal and/or correlated. For instance, a child's lack of stable housing is a risk factor for child neglect. Food insecurity is a risk factor for low educational outcomes. The correlations are too many to list, but critical to recognize if you want to understand and address the needs of New Mexico's most vulnerable families.
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Approximately 16,000 multi-system families in New Mexico cost $900 million a year in social services. 1) This is expensive 2) We do not know who these families are 3) We do not know what services they are receiving 4) Without an evidence-based policymaking tool, we do not know if any of these services and interventions are effective 4
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Appleseed's 2021 Impact
EVIDENCE-BASED POLICYMAKING CHILD HUNGER CHILD & FAMILY HOMELESSNESS FAMILY ECONOMIC STABILITY
EVIDENCE-BASED POLICYMAKING
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FAMILY SUCCESS LAB AT THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Addressing the policy challenge (and solution) to multi-system-involved children and families. The vast majority of New Mexico’s social services system is based on triage with no ability to predict and prevent problems. A hospital social worker cannot know that a baby is at higher risk for being abused, for example, if he does not know that the baby’s family is homeless. A school counselor cannot know that a fourth grade child is at high risk for mental health problems, if she does not know that the child’s father is in prison. The lack of coordination of data that tells a child’s whole set of circumstances means that funding, policymaking and service provision is rarely (and randomly) effective.
HUNGER & COVID-19 In the last year-and-a-half, the COVID–19 pandemic has been driving-up food insecurity among children throughout New Mexico. In a year with so many children not attending school full-time and parents still out of work, Appleseed has been helping to fight for children and their families every step of the way. Appleseed ensures the availability of school meals, reminds the public, government institutions, and our communities that we are watching a humanitarian disaster slowly unfold before our eyes—and that we have the ability to prevent and mitigate the dangers to New Mexico's children and families.
Appleseed created the Family Success Lab (FSL) at the NM Department of Health (DOH) to use linked administrative data to discover and deploy evidencebased, data-informed and scalable solutions to common challenges facing vulnerable children and families. Linked data offers significantly more granularity in understanding key risk factors for poor outcomes and evaluating programs. It helps identify risk and protective factors to better assess family strengths and challenges, target evidence-based programs to high-risk groups, and evaluate programs, policies, and interventions for efficacy and cost. In 2020-21 Appleseed secured legislative funding for a full-time position for the FSL at the DOH. We spearheaded the creation of a research agenda to study cross-agency and cross-generation correlations at DOH and the NM Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD). The FSL is currently looking at questions regarding the impact of home visitation programs on: 1) preventing abuse and neglect referrals 2) enrollment in high quality pre-K 3) maternal depression 4) improve outcomes for other children in the household
COORDINATED 15 LARGE COMMUNITY EVENTS THAT HELPED MORE THAN 7,932 STUDENTS, 2,500 PARENTS, AND SERVED 1,800 FOOD BOXES AND 8,500 SCHOOL MEALS Appleseed partnered with over 60 different nonprofits, schools, and government agencies for our multi-pronged 1,2,3 Eyes On Me statewide events—and became first-in-the-nation to combine health screenings, oral and eye health services, food boxes, flu shots, mental health services, and COVID-19 vaccinations in a single location. DIRECTED STATEWIDE EFFORTS TO EXPAND SUMMER MEAL AND AFTER SCHOOL MEAL SITES DURING THE PANDEMIC As communities' feeding sites closed and Tribal communities remained under strict access, Appleseed got creative and created innovative feeding sites: meals were delivered on school buses to communities without feeding sites, pop-up-sites and after school meals were established to increase access to meals during the evenings. Throughout the pandemic, Appleseed spearheaded feeding efforts together with school districts and state agencies to promote summer and after school meals.
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AWARDED FOUR DISTRICTS AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS WITH $30,000 IN HUNGER GRANTS TO FEED DURING THE SUMMER As schools struggled to provide meals to the community, Appleseed provided hunger grants to school districts to continue their feeding programs. RFK Charter School, Family Youth Inc, Lynn Middle School, and Valley View Elementary were provided grants to provide over 10,000 summer meals and food boxes to their children and families. Family Youth Inc. used their grants to provide food and back to school supplies for their community. Rehoboth Christian School used the entirety of the grant to keep its doors open during the summer and provide meals to their community. Susan Eddy, the Food Service Director, provided 2,097 in-person meals and additional summer programming. HUNGER WATCHDOGS Appleseed continues a tradition of closely monitoring our state agencies, school districts, and communities to ensure they are abiding by all hunger and poverty laws and regulations. Our rapid response team is dedicated to reviewing local policies throughout New Mexico and are quick to ensure compliance with our Breakfast After the Bell law, Elimination of Reduced-price School Meals, and Lunch Shaming laws. As hunger watchdogs, we become experts in federal laws and ensure that state agencies not only understand them, but enforce them as well. Our legislation directly helps one-third of all New Mexico children, and we are dedicated to ensuring that for years to come. SERVED AS A HUNGER THOUGHT LEADER IN THE STATE AND NATIONALLY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR FIGHTING FOR NEW MEXICO’S CHILDREN AND PUTTING FORTH ISSUES IN EVERY MEETING AND EVENT POSSIBLE Our staff works directly with the Children’s Cabinet at the Office of the Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, Community Food Programs, Food Hunger Water and Ag Policy Council, School Nutrition Association, One Albuquerque’s Kid’s Cabinet, Santa Fe Food & Nutrition Committee, Chobani’s Hunger Summit, and USDA’s Secretary Tom Vilsack to ensure child hunger issues are always being discussed and addressed. 6
APPLESEED'S FEDERAL LEGISLATION TRIBAL NUTRITION IMPROVEMENT ACT Nationwide, one in three Native Americans lives in poverty due to low wages and unstable employment, and about three out of four live in a community that does not have a supermarket with in one mile— unlike the rest of the nation, where it is about two in five. This makes it difficult for Native American communities to benefit from federal food programs such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and School Meals (Feeding America, 2021). Child nutrition programs should work to help sovereign Native Nations overcome barriers to ending food insecurity. Appleseed is leading the way with an innovative piece of legislation that will change the landscape of hunger plaguing Native communities. Our Tribal Nutrition Improvement Act will: 1. Ensure that tribal children, no matter where or with whom they live, will automatically receive free school meals. 2. Empower Native communities to operate nutrition programs. 3. Ensure higher meal reimbursement rates. 4. Track Tribal meal patterns and economic development. LUNCH SHAMING In 2017, thanks to Appleseed's work, New Mexico was the first state to ban the practice of lunch shaming. This landmark piece of legislation was quickly adopted by many other states and praised as commonsense law. However, not everyone sees it that way and the fight continues over holding a child responsible for school meal debt. Our Hunger Watchdogs monitor activities of the government and organizations alerting the public and writing legal memos when necessary to prevent the practice of lunch shaming. Together with local delegates, Appleseed is working to end these unethical debtcollection methods on a federal level. In the last year, our work has been gaining support as Congress revisits the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act. Our staff has been working to ensure that lunch shaming becomes federal law—and a thing of the past. 6
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CHILD & FAMILY HOMELESSNESS When people think about homelessness they often picture encampments or people staying in an emergency shelter. Yet, that is only a small fraction of the families experiencing homelessness and housing instability in New Mexico. Over 80 percent of children and youth who meet the federal definition of homelessness under federal educational laws are living in homes that are overcrowded or in desperate need of repair, or they lack access to utilities such as running water or electricity. Inadequate housing qualifies as homeless under federal education laws (called McKinney-Vento) because these living situations have a profound impact on children and their ability to learn and thrive. Appleseed’s work with communities has revealed several challenges around identifying families who may qualify as homeless under McKinney-Vento and connecting them with the extra supports they need. There is deep stigma around housing instability, uncertainty about what supports are available, and fear that housing instability may result in children being removed from the home. Furthermore, some housing situations such as extended families living together are common and offer benefits such as intergenerational ties, in addition to the challenges of overcrowding. Connecting with families in a way that is sensitive and culturally competent requires an investment of time and resources, which are in short supply in many districts around the state. INCREASING IDENTIFICATION OF HOMELESS AND HOUSING INSECURE STUDENTS Improving Identification in Districts Around the State. As COVID-19 kept children out of school, homeless children became even more at-risk of being unidentified and unsupported. Appleseed worked with districts to identify nearly 1,600 inadequatelyhoused children to help them get the support they need and are entitled to under federal educational law. The mini-grant program led to improved identification of students experiencing homelessness through creative and strategic ways, including payment of transportation expenses to conduct home visits and providing bilingual school staff a stipend to conduct outreach to families in their native language. Outcomes include:
· 11 mini-grantees increased the number of students they identified · Mini-grantees identified 103 more students in 2020-2021 compared to 2019-2020—a 10 percent increase. Statewide and nationally, identification of students experiencing homelessness was significantly down during the 2020-2021 school year—in large part because of school closures—yet, the evidence suggests that housing instability and homelessness actually increased. The fact that over half of our grantees increased identification during the 2020-2021 school year is a huge success. Combining Data Sources to Develop a Better Estimate of Youth Homelessness. Due to our deep knowledge of the communities in which we work, Appleseed’s hypothesis is that there are far more students who qualify as homeless under federal educational laws than are identified. The robustness of districts’ outreach and identification efforts are highly variable. To better understand the scope of the problem we are working in partnership with DOH epidemiologists and PED to compare the self-reported homelessness data among middle and high school students from the biennial New Mexico Youth Risk and Resilience Survey with school district reporting of homeless students' data to develop a more accurate snapshot of housing instability. This type of analysis sheds light on the scale of the problem and identifies areas of the state that will benefit from more targeted outreach in 2022. Developing a Universal Housing Screener. Our work on a universal housing screener also experienced significant progress. There is no comprehensive data set on the number of students experiencing housing instability in the state and efforts at identification are variable, depending on the district. A universal housing screener will help solve that. Staff worked in partnership with PED’s State Coordinator for the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program to revise and update student housing screener templates to circulate statewide. The screeners ask about a student’s living situation, including whether the student has access to utilities. As a result of our continued advocacy PED is exploring adding the homelessness questions to existing surveys administered in schools, and some districts 7
have also expressed an interest in piloting the use of the screener. Our goal is to have a consistent approach statewide on housing screeners, where every student is screened using the same form. SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE Statewide Legal and Policy Experts on Homelessness. Appleseed is a state and national thought leader on child and family homelessness. During 2021, we also became experts on federal and state relief funds and the eviction and utility moratoriums. We shared our expertise with partners and communities around the state so they can better identify and serve families experiencing homelessness: · Provided media outlets background information for multiple in-depth stories covering different aspects of homelessness and evictions. · Trained over twenty early childhood intervention social workers on federal education laws that address homelessness, provided resources and presented to hundreds of attendees. · Provided technical assistance to dozens of liaisons, state leadership, and school staff on issues including confusion over who qualifies as homeless, emergency housing options for unaccompanied youth in rural communities, and how to access eviction prevention funds. · Provided substantive feedback and analysis to the Program Coordinator of Community Schools and Extended Learning at PED on a study they are
Appleseed's Work Ahead EXPAND to cover more rural areas of New Mexico, helping to create additional summer and after school meals locations. As federal safety net programs are set to expire in 2022, our team will be leading the charge to expand school meal programs, boost EBT, spearhead national legislation that could bring free school meals to all Native American students around the country and ensure our former legislation stays intact and becomes more robust to help more children eat as we work to end hunger in New Mexico. SUPPORT 50 plus districts and charters that are currently identifying zero students to improve identification and build a more robust McKinney-Vento program. 8
launching in partnership with J-PAL at MIT and will be providing support throughout the duration of the study. · Presented to the NMSU economic development cabinet about how the university can improve outcomes for its high poverty families and students. · Presented at the Harvard Kennedy Government Performance Lab meeting on cash transfers. · Provided support to the Governors task force on fiscal and policy implications of free meals for all children. ADDRESSING BARRIERS THROUGH LEGISLATION AND POLICY Ensure Free Access to Birth Certificates for Homeless Youth. Through Appleseed’s role on the statewide Education for Homeless Children and Youth Advisory Committee, we worked to develop and advocate for the passage of HB 179, a law to ensure that youth experiencing homelessness can access copies of their birth certificates and that the $10 statutory fee is waived for all individuals experiencing homelessness. Improve Access to Youth IDs. Through the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Advisory Committee, we worked with the Taxation and Revenue Department (TRD) to clarify that unaccompanied youth can apply on their own for an identification card without a parent or guardian's signature and successfully advocated with TRD to train field office staff on the rights of unaccompanied youth to access IDs.
IMPLEMENT a universal housing screener in school districts around the state to develop a more comprehensive data set of how many students are experiencing homelessness. SUPPORT state and local partners with expertise and technical assistance on homelessness. PUBLISH Appleseed’s work on cash transfers. LAUNCH a new community of practice for the 53 LEAs receiving Education for Homeless Children and Youth funds. LAUNCH into the design phase of the Supporting Early Childhood Success and collaborate with potential funders on the pilot.
FAMILY ECONOMIC STABILITY A well-studied intervention in global development that is now catching on in the United States is the concept of providing cash transfers to support low-income families. The purpose of these cash transfers is to provide income for these families so that their children can go to school, their basic needs are met, and they have the opportunity to move beyond the cycle of poverty. Whether designed as basic minimum income for all or a stronger cash assistance-based safety net, this is a developing field and Appleseed is at the forefront in the United States and in New Mexico. BASIC NEEDS CASH TRANSFER PILOT Building on our two summer pilots in Albuquerque and Las Cruces, Appleseed, through a generous grant from the Los Alamos National Lab Foundation, launched two more pilots for the duration of the 2020-2021 school year in West Las Vegas Public Schools and Cuba Independent Schools, two districts who experience high rates of poverty and have populations who have been historically underserved. The pilots ran from November 2020 to June 2021 and served 53 students and their families—this is what we learned: High Retention Rate: Between both districts, the program experienced an over 80% retention rate with the fifty-three student participants. Qualitative Data Collection Revealed Positive Outcomes: We conducted over 40 exit interviews with students, families, and staff, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with universal agreement that
SECURE additional legislative funding for five full-time Family Success Lab staff at DOH. SUPPORT DOH and ECECD as they carry out their research agenda, and assist with translating the analysis into real world policy and programmatic changes. COLLABORATE with state agencies, such as the Public Education Department (PED) and Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) on progress of the FSL and support development of their respective research agendas and data-sharing efforts. ADVOCATE for a moratorium on utility shut-offs for families with children during the school year and develop a process to assist families with utility arrearages.
they would recommend the program. Students noted how helpful the tutoring was and some said they would not have passed their classes without the tutoring sessions. Students stated that the money helped motivate them to focus on school and meet their needs: buying clothes, shoes, school supplies or paying phone bills. Parents and families noted the money helped their monthly budget and directed it toward necessities including car payments, utilities, home repairs and weatherization, dental services, phone bills, and food. From our participants “[The pilot] made me focus more on school because it pushed me to do better.” -Student “Knowing they can get this extra help in school makes them look forward to being more productive and proactive in class.” -Parent/Guardian “The most important was the car payments. We were unsure how we were going to pay. I slipped into a depression. Having this help really did help me a lot.” - Parent/Guardian SUPPORTING EARLY CHILDHOOD SUCCESS The W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded Appleseed $300,000 to design our “Supporting Early Childhood Success” pilot program. This innovative project will co-create a guaranteed income intervention with parents living in communities of color whose children were born drugexposed. We will design the program in partnership with the targeted population and other community partners. Our goal is to develop a strength-based program that will help stabilize families and help children thrive while informing potential policy interventions. Programming will take place in Bernalillo and McKinley counties.
Families with school-aged children who have their utilities disconnected due to economic hardship may qualify as homeless under the McKinney-Vento Act, the federal law on homelessness in the educational context. The U.S. Department of Education defines homeless children and youth as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including children living in housing that lacks fundamental utilities such as water, electricity, or heat. One can imagine how challenging it is to study in the evenings, get a decent night’s sleep or have healthy meals at home without utilities. 9
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