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Meet Kate!
100
This is the year Children's HealthWatch was founded.
What is 1998?
100
This is a research and advocacy project that was started by Dr. Mariana Chilton, former CHW PI at Drexel, and that CHW partnered with from 2008-2020. They feature the photographs of parents who share their experiences of raising children on a limited income.
What is Witnesses to Hunger?
100
Ana and Carolina grew up in this country.
Where is Brazil?
100
Our research show that this constitutes our nation’s first line of defense against hunger and food insecurity.
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
100
This is the state in which Kate received her BA in History (the same state that Maureen resides in!)
What is Maryland?
200
This is the first recipient of the Champion Award.
Who is Congressman James P. McGovern?
200
The Hunger Vital Sign™, our validated 2-question food insecurity screening tool, is based on which survey?
What is the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module?
200
This team member ran the Boston Marathon in 2021.
Who is Rich?
200
This is the term when efforts to become self-sufficient through employment can trigger a reduction in or termination of families' benefits, resulting in a net loss of income.
What are cliff effects?
200
Kate is a huge fan of this baseball team that just won the division series and advanced in the playoffs.
What is the Philadelphia Phillies?
300
In 2008, this member of our team was named “the woman who saved SNAP” due to her key testimony before the House on the Farm Bill.
Who is Debbie?
300
The MA EITC increased to this percent in 2023 through efforts by CHW-led Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition.
What is 40%?
300
Charlotte summitted this mountain - the tallest in Africa.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
300
Children who received subsidized meals at childcare centers that were reimbursed from this federally funded, state-administered initiative were 30% less likely to have household food insecurity.
What is the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)?
300
This US President taught a class at Kate's law school while he was in the Senate.
Who is President Biden?
400
President Biden cites research co-authored by Children’s HealthWatch on the benefits of the Child Tax Credit in reducing food insufficiency during a speech at this event.
What is the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
400
The Housing Prescriptions as Health Care pilot study, was based at Boston Medical Center and led by CHW. It provided housing and wrap-around services to families experiencing severe housing insecurity and started in this year.
What is 2016?
400
This team member is trained in ballet.
Who is Felice?
400
Immigrant mothers participating in this program is associated with healthier birth weights among infants born in the US, according to our research.
What is prenatal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)?
400
Despite Kate's fear of these, she courageously created Phil-A-Beet for her former employer.
What are mascots?
500
This is the original name of Children's HealthWatch.
What is Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program.
500
In 2017, this federal agency incorporated the Hunger Vital Sign™ in the Accountable Health Communities Screening Tool.
What is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services?
500
This team member started her career at Border AIDS Partnership to address HIV/AIDS prevention along the U.S./Mexico Border.
Who is Irma?
500
Through modeling analyses, we have estimated that the US will spend this much on avoidable health-related costs of housing instability over a 10-year period if we do not act to improve housing stability and promote equity.
What is $111 billion?
500
This Irish town holds a special place in Kate's heart due to her college study abroad experience and return visits.
Where is Galway?