{"id":15367,"date":"2023-05-10T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/?p=15367"},"modified":"2023-05-10T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:19:06","slug":"household-food-insecurity-in-the-school-district-of-philadelphia-an-analysis-of-district-wide-survey-results-2021-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2023\/05\/10\/household-food-insecurity-in-the-school-district-of-philadelphia-an-analysis-of-district-wide-survey-results-2021-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Household Food Insecurity in the School District of Philadelphia: An Analysis of District-Wide Survey Results, 2021-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Food insecurity directly impacts physical health and is associated with adverse developmental, behavioral, and social-emotional outcomes. Moreover, it can contribute to achievement gaps between low- and high-income children.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this brief is to describe the prevalence of food insecurity among SDP households that responded to the District-Wide Survey (DWS) in 2021-22 and to examine the differences in food insecurity rates across different student demographic groups and schools. This brief follows food insecurity briefs for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years, and provides year-over-year comparisons of food insecurity rates from DWS results from 2019-20 to 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The School District of Philadelphia District-Wide Survey for parents and guardians includes the USDA Six-Item Short Form questions that evaluate household food insecurity. The rate of food insecurity among responding SDP households in 2021-22 was 20%.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021-22 District-Wide Survey for students included a question derived from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s Youth Risk Behavior Survey that asks about student hunger. Twenty-seven percent of student respondents indicated that they had gone hungry in the previous 30 days due to a lack of food at home &#8220;sometimes,&#8221; &#8220;most of the time,&#8221; or &#8220;always.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2021-22, the District-Wide Survey for principals asked whether food insecurity was a challenge to student learning. Forty percent of responding principals identified food insecurity as a \u201cgreat\u201d or \u201cmoderate\u201d challenge.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_btn title=&#8221;CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF&#8221; style=&#8221;gradient-custom&#8221; gradient_custom_color_1=&#8221;#0b315b&#8221; gradient_custom_color_2=&#8221;#398635&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.philasd.org%2Fresearch%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F90%2F2023%2F05%2FFood-Insecurity-in-SDP-2021-22-May-2023.pdf&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food insecurity directly impacts physical health and is associated with adverse developmental, behavioral, and social-emotional outcomes. This brief describes the prevalence of food insecurity among SDP households that responded to the District-Wide Survey (DWS) in 2021-22 and examines the differences in food insecurity rates across different student demographic groups and schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103956,"featured_media":15372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,292,288],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-nutrition","category-district-wide-survey-dws","category-surveys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15374,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15367\/revisions\/15374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}