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Weekly Alerts and Updates from 2004

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November 2004

Alert Update  11.22.04

• Action: Media Outreach on County Nutrition Profiles

• Update: Thanksgiving Menu of Legislation Now Online

• New Research Highlights Extent of Hunger & Need for Assistance

• Submit Comments to Help Plan the Governor’s Obesity Summit

October 2004

Alert Update  10.26.04

• Action: Partner with CFPA on the Thanksgiving Release

• Resource Materials From 6th Annual Food Stamp Forum

• Sign Up to Learn About Breakfast First Campaign

• Massachusetts Bill Combines SB19 with AB2686

September 2004

Alert Update  9.21.04

• Action: Register now for the Food Stamp Forum!

• Update: Visit the Online One Stop Snack Shop

• Is There a Silver Lining in the AB2686 Veto Message: Share Your Ideas for An Omnibus Nutrition Bill

• Legal resources for low-income Californians

Alert Update 9.2.04

• Action: Time-Sensitive Opportunity for New Afterschool Snack Funds!

August 2004

Alert Update 8.24.04

• Action: Urge Your Senator To Vote YES on Wednesday on AB1796!

• 3 Child Nutrition Bills Need Your Help

• Summary of Child Nutrition Program Verification Policies

Alert Update 8.16.04

• Action: Make A Call for Healthier School Food!

Alert Update  8.10.04

• Action: Urge Your Senator To Vote YES on AB2686!

• USDA Releases Nutrition Program Updates for 2004-05

• Press Highlights Low-Income Issues in Performance Review

• Multiple Opportunities for Your Input

July 2004

Alert Update 7.27.04

• Action: Urge CA's Delegation to Oppose Cuts to Nut Ed  Funds!

• Give Input to CFPA's 2005 Legislative Agenda

• See "Supersize Me" & Go to a Junk Food Marketing Conference

• Media: State Budget Deal Reached

Alert Update 7.13.04

• Action: Preserve Food Stamp Nutrition Education Funds for California

• CA Food Stamp Participation Down 7% Between 1999-2004

• Good News & Bad on ABAWD Waivers

• Media: Restaurant Meals for Food Stamp Recipient

Alert Update 7.6.04

• Action: Use the Governor’s New Hotline to Save Child Care & CalWORKS from Cuts

• AB2686 Passes Out of Senate Health & Human Services; Next Stop: Appropriations on August 2

• Save the Date: Food Stamp Forum on October 13

•  Summer Food Media Highlights

June 2004

Alert Update 6.28.04

• Action: Help Feed Hungry Kids in Your Community this Summer

• Child Nutrition Reauthorization Update

• Amended AB2686 Passes Senate Education

• Uncle Sam Needs You: Help Rename the Food Stamp Program

Alert Update 6.18.04

• Action: Save CalWORKS and child care!

• Check out the Summer Food sites in your community

• Resources available to clarify public charge issues

• Participate in a CPEHN Health Disparities Conference

Alert Update 6.01.04

• Action: Tell Congress to stop paying for WIC-only stores
• Help eliminate finger imaging from the budget
• National Hunger Awareness Day June 3rd
• AB 2013 hearing set for June 9th

May 2004

Alert Update 5.24.04

• Action: Choose from our Healthy List of Advocacy Actions
• Child Nutrition Reauthorization Update
• Grants Available from CA Nutrition Network
• CBP and CWDA Issue New Report
   

Alert Update 5.17.04

• Action: Tell the Governor to Keep Critical Low-Income Supports in Place
• Sacramento Bee urges end to finger imaging
• Rural Counties: Are the Myths True?
• Urban Institute Releases Study on Food Stamp Participation
   

Alert Update 5.03.04

• Ask Government to Spend Money Where it Counts

• AB 231 Implementation Handbook Available

• AB 2013 Passes Appropriations

• CFPA Will Release Easy to Read School Meal Nutrition Information
   

April 2004

Alert Update 4.26.04

• Action: Call in to support services for children

• School meals information released

• Help with the CHAC Hunger Action Day

• Multimedia: Good News/Bad News on School Lunches

Alert Update 4.20.04

• Action: Call in to support services for children

• AB 2013 passes Assembly Human Services Committee

• Announcing Summer lunch program trainings

• Seamless waiver a winner for schools

Alert Update 4.12.04

• Action: send a letter of support for AB 2200

• Bill that would end finger imaging at critical juncture

• Send a letter supporting current nutrition investments

• Regional Corner:  Hunger in the Sacramento area

Alert Update 4.05.04

• Sign up for Hunger Action Day!

• Deadline to send letters of support for AB 2013

• AB 2686 Unanimously Passes in Assembly Education Committee

• Regional Corner: New Report on Overlapping Food Insecurity and Obesity in Los Angeles

Alert Update 3.30.04

• Report finger imaging as a waste in the CA Performance Review

• ENACT Day was a big success!

• CFPA urges expansion of summer lunch program

• Regional Corner:  Nutrition Vanguard in Ventura

Alert Update 3.22.04

• Opportunities abound; Be heard in Sacramento

• USDA releases new report on food insecurity

• Elimination of Reduced Price Category passes the Senate

• Regional Corner: Breakfast in LA

Alert Update 3.15.04

• Ask your legislators to co-author nutrition legislation

• Join in ENACT 2004

• Read an update on Child Nutrition Reauthorization

Alert Update 3.08.04

• Send us stories on the impact of proposed budget cuts

• Child nutrition reauthorization update

• Orange County event: identifying solutions to federal food program challenges

Alert Update 3.01.04

• Take Action: Join the Campaign to Provide Breakfast in Schools 

• New fill-in  food stamp application available

• Vote Yes on Prop. 56

February 2004

Alert Update 2.23.04

• Take Action: Join the Campaign to Provide Parents with Nutrition Information About School Lunch

• Assemblymember Loni Hancock introduces AB 2200

• LAO Budget Analysis:  Food stamp cuts don't make sense

Alert Update 2.17.04

• Take Action: Join the Campaign to End Finger Imaging

• See the new labor surplus areas list

• House moves toward child nutrition reauthorization

Alert Update 2.09.04

• Tell your Congress you support child nutrition!

• Read an analysis of President Bush's proposed budget

• Watch a live webcast of Congressional hearings on healthy children

Alert Update 2.02.04

• Take Action: Breaking Down Barriers to Breakfast

• Check out President Bush's new budget proposal

• Get the word out on Earned Income Tax Credit

January 2004

Alert Update 1.26.04

• Participate in the Food Stamps and CalWORKs Call-in Day

• DHS calculates the monetary cost of obesity

• Read  Orange County Register story on proposed budget

Alert Update 1.20.04

• Proposition 56 offers budget accountability

• Sign on to CFPA's 2004 legislative agenda

• Take our poll on taxes in California

Alert Update 1.12.04

• Action Alert returns--with a new style!

• Governor's budget will increase hunger

• AB 231 Implemented on January 1st

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