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Field Reports

Food Stamps and Immigrant Families: How Health Care Workers Can Improve Child Health

David Kane, Emerson Fellow
Published 2008

Boston, Massachusetts

Food Stamps and Immigrant Families: How Health Care Workers Can Improve Child Health makes the case for food stamps as a tool to improve the health of immigrant children, providing medical professionals with facts and culturally appropriate information to encourage immigrant families to apply for food stamps.

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Publication tags: Field Reports - Domestic Federal Nutrition Programs, Health, Nutrition and Hunger, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)/Food Stamps, Wellness - Children, Families, Immigrants, Service Providers

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David Kane

Emerson Fellow

David graduated from Northwestern University in 2007 with a degree in education and social policy and a minor in history.  At Northwestern, he organized youth in Chicago, volunteered at a local homeless shelter, led alternative spring break trips to Atlanta and San Francisco, earned a certificate in service learning, and studied abroad in Spain.  He has served as a policy intern at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, worked as a children’s fitness instructor and camp counselor, and studied undocumented unaccompanied immigrant minors in the American legal system.

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