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Guillen founded Community to Community Development, a grassroots women of color-led organization that advocates for farmworker rights and food sovereignty based in Bellingham, Washington. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] She supported the creation of the farmworkers union Familias Unidas por la Justicia in Whatcom County and was active in the union's ...
Organizations and festivals such as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, [33] and Farm Aid are credited as working to raise awareness of or assist with food justice by fighting for family farmers to keep and sustain their land, fair pay and treatment of workers, and ensuring access to healthy foods to those ...
The Youth.gov Program Directory is a searchable database that provides users with information about evidence-based programs whose purpose is to prevent and/or reduce problem behaviors in young people (under age 18). Communities can use this tool to determine whether replicating these strategies will meet local needs.
Logo: SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), www.nrepp.samhsa.gov. In the behavioral health field, there is an ongoing need for researchers, developers, evaluators, and practitioners to share information about what works to improve outcomes among individuals coping with, or at risk for, mental disorders and substance abuse.
(The Center Square) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is rattling his 'tin cup' for more state funding to cover the city's costs of providing temporary shelter and food for tens of thousands of ...
Local programs may follow some of elements from the national programs and integrate them, which create varieties of practice models, depending on the needs and availability of the local communities. The local models may not have evidence of consistent outcomes. The seven federally approved home visiting models are:
I grew up on the border between the United States and Mexico, near the boundary line that starts at the Pacific Ocean and weaves east toward the Gulf of Mexico. My parents, who are both from Tijuana, met in that city in the late 1970s while my father was home from California’s Central Valley, where he was a field worker.
Few development initiatives have been evaluated as rigorously as CCT programs. [1] The implementation of conditional cash transfer programs has been accompanied by systematic efforts to measure their effectiveness and understand their broader impact on household behavior, [1] a marked departure from the limited attention that was paid to rigorous impact evaluations in the past.