Describes the design of a national study of USDA's Summer Food Service Program, created in 1975 to provide children from low-income families with nutritious meals when school is not in session, including appropriate sample and data collection methodologies, analytic methods, and study costs. On...

The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children demonstration offered a rigorous test of the impact of providing a monthly benefit of $60 per child eligible for free or reduced-price school meals—using existing electronic benefit transfer (EBT) systems—on food insecurity among...

This report from the field describes the design, implementation, and early evaluation results of the Healthy Weight Collaborative, a federally supported learning collaborative to develop, test, and disseminate an integrated change package of six promising, evidence-based clinical and...