ECHO FACTS
ECHO is an abbreviation for...
What is Enriching Community Health Outreach?
Name the following option that best describes homelessness:
The situation of someone who is living on the streets because they need a house to live in
The situation of someone without appropriate, safe housing or the means to acquire it
The situation of someone who lacks money and a place to live
The situation of someone who does not have his or her own place to stay in, so they hop from one place to another
What is option 2?
Name a cause for youth to be out-of-school.
What is (any of the following)?
Poverty, low achievement in school, behavior issues that cause dismissal from school, stopping school to work
Only __ of adults with diagnosable mental illness receive treatment
43%
15%
28%
9.5%
What is "43%"?
Define food insecurity.
What is (something along the lines of) "A household’s inability to provide enough food for every person to live an active, healthy life"?
Year in which ECHO was founded
What is 2018?
Choose the option that best describes those who are homeless:
Homeless people
The homeless
People experiencing homelessness
People in the streets
What is "people experiencing homelessness"?
Define “learning poverty”.
Being unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10
Not having enough resources for an enriched education
Poor educational progression due to poverty
What is "option 1"?
__ in five Americans have experienced some form of mental illness
One
Two
Three
Four
What is "One"?
Out of the following organizations, ECHO has not collaborated with:
LA Regional Food Bank
Food Oasis
Hollywood Food Coalition
Food Forward
What is "Food Forward"?
List the three components of the ECHO Project
What are Photojournal, Podcast and Blog?
Choose on the following options that is a common myth about people experiencing homelessness.
They do not have the means of acquiring a home.
They choose to be homeless.
Homelessness can be caused by personal circumstances.
Homelessness can be caused by poverty.
What is "They choose to be homeless"?
Name 2 things that young people who drop out of school early are vulnerable to.
What is (2 of the following) "Unemployment, poverty, teen marriage/pregnancy"?
People with severe mental disorders die ____ years earlier than the general population.
5-10
10-20
20-30
30-40
What is "10-20"?
_ percent of UC undergraduate students are food insecure.
44%
25%
64%
11%
What is "44%"?
List three of ECHO's community partners.
What is One-on-One Outreach, NAMI, Reading to Kids, Hollywood Food Coalition, CMLA, Stanford Health Innovation Lab, Food Oasis etc.?
_% of people experiencing homelessness suffer from severe mental illness
10-15
15-20
20-25
25-30
What is "20-25%"?
_ percent of young people report having learned less since the start of the pandemic due to remote schooling.
50%
60%
65%
70%
What is "65%"?
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, suicide was the _____ leading cause of death in the United States in 2018.
5th
10th
15th
20th
What is "10th"?
The following US State has the highest rate of child food insecurity:
New Mexico
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
What is "New Mexico"?
Name ECHO's instagram handle.
What is "echo.nonprofit"?
_ percent of people experiencing homelessness in LA are fleeing from domestic violence.
1%
2%
3%
5%
What is "5%"?
UNICEF has estimated that youth worldwide have lost a total of _ hours of schooling as a result of the pandemic (as of Sept 2021).
10 billion
100 billion
500 billion
1.8 trillion
What is "1.8 trillion"?
List two factors that may contribute to the development of a mental health condition.
Possible answers: life experiences, biological factors, family history of mental illness, social isolation, etc.
The following federal food assistance program does NOT supply food banks:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
All of these programs supply food banks
What is "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)"?