Agribusiness Small Farm Diversity Equality for all opportunities for small farmers. URL: https://www.kysu.edu/academics/college-acs/school-of-ace/college-of-agriculture-community-and- the-environment-website-map.php DEI Issue Type: Culture, Developmental and Acquired Disabilities, Ethnicity, Language, Race, Socioeconomic Status America After 3PM Special Report: Afterschool in Communities of Concentrated Poverty Afterschool programs have come to be recognized as critical partners in helping to ensure that all children are afforded the opportunities that will help them thrive and meet their full potential. Afterschool programs can enact meaningful change by encouraging children to explore different interest areas to find their passion, finding new and creative ways to keep kids excited about learning, offering academic help to students who are struggling with their school day lessons, and helping keep their students from hunger by providing nutritious foods. In particular, afterschool programs have the ability to help address some of the inequalities facing families living in communities of concentrated poverty, including existing disparities in segments of the population that that are more likely to live in these high-poverty areas, such as African- American and Hispanic families. Findings from America After 3PM document the role that afterschool programs play in supporting families living in high-poverty areas by answering questions about what afterschool program participation looks like, what the demand for afterschool programs is, what is preventing parents from taking advantage of and children from participating in afterschool programs, and what the afterschool program experience is like for families in communities of concentrated poverty. URL: http://afterschoolalliance.org/AA3PM/Concentrated_Poverty.pdf DEI Issue Type: Socioeconomic Status America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2018 The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (Forum) was chartered in 1997 by the authority of Executive Order No. 13045. The Forum fosters collaboration among 23 Federal agencies that (1) produce and/or use statistical data on children, and (2) seek to improve Federal data on those children. Each year, the Forum publishes a report on the well-being of children. This series of reports, entitled America’s Children, provides accessible comp ilations of well-being indicators drawn from the most reliable Federal statistics. A goal of the series is to make Federal data on children available in a nontechnical, easy-to-use format to stimulate discussion among data providers, policymakers, and the public. The Forum alternates publishing a detailed report, America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well- Being, with a shorter report, America’s Children in Brief. In some years, America’s Children in Brief highlights selected indicators while other editions focus on a particular topic and measures
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