Our team routinely publishes in diverse outlets.

Below, find CRESP reports and journal articles on issues of education, nutrition, health, and social policy. Use the search bar to narrow the selection by author, title, description, or keywords.

Publications

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Evaluation of the SevaTruck Foundation’s After-School Healthy Meals Program

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SevaTruck is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to reducing hunger in communities by serving free, nutritious, warm meals to children attending Title I Schools, as well as surrounding community events in the DC Metro area. SevaTruck, …

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Healing Through the Arts, a Project of Mariposa Arts in Partnership with the Delaware Art Museum.

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Vanesa Simon of Mariposa Arts launched the “Healing Through the Arts” program with the help of the Delaware Art Museum in 2017, which seeks to use art to help community members from diverse experiences and backgrounds to experience healing. Currently, …

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Pandemic-Era WIC Participation in Wilmington, Delaware: Participants’ Experiences and Challenges.

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Pandemic-Era WIC Participation in Wilmington, Delaware: Participants’ Experiences and Challenges Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants faced unprecedented challenges during the coronavirus disease 20 …

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WeCare YEAR 3 Report final

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This report represents a partnership across University of Delaware departments, including the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) in the College of Education; the Institute for Public Administration in the Biden School of Public …

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Which Healthy Food Promotion Strategies Within Grocery Retail Settings Are Most Promising?

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This review identifies intervention strategies implemented within U.S. grocery retail stores that are effective in improving the healthfulness of shoppers’ food and beverage purchasing and consumption. Results from our review demonstrate that nutrition …

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Feeding Families, Evaluation Reports

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Participants in the Feeding Families program are also patients at Westside Family Health, a community-minded, non-partisan Federally Qualified Health Center located in Wilmington, DE. For some patients who are both food insecure and suffer from diet-re …

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Innovative Title III Senior Healthcare Program: Year 2 Transition Lessons Learned and Intermediate Outcomes

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This report represents a partnership across University of Delaware departments, including the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) in the College of Education; the Institute for Public Administration in the Biden School of Public …

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Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Delaware Public School Students

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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, students in Delaware experienced significant changes to the way they were educated both towards the end of the 2019–20 academic year and for the duration of the 2020–21 academic year. To explore changes to (1) enro …

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Understanding the Academic Impact of COVID-19 on Delaware Public School Students: DeSSA Data Review

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This report is the second in a series of reports that serve to assist the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) in understanding the changes that occurred in Delaware Public Schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and explore the impact those changes ha …

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Brief: Peer Reviewed Publication: USDA Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Vendor Criteria

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WIC, or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, helps to meet the nutrition needs of pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, and their children under the age of five, who live on low incomes by providing mont …

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