They ‘won’t get food’: Healthy Opportunities advocates press lawmakers to reconsider ending funding
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They ‘won’t get food’: Healthy Opportunities advocates press lawmakers to reconsider ending funding
By Grace Vitaglione and Jaymie Baxley In 2022, Christina Schnabel was a single mom in Hendersonville barely making ends meet. She lived in public housing and made do with help from services like Medicaid and SNAP. Her son suffered from chronic gastrointestinal symptoms. That changed after she started volunteering with a local nonprofit called Caja Solidaria. The organization was one of the community partners in the Healthy Opportunities Pilot, a…
Healthy Opportunities advocates press lawmakers to reconsider ending funding
By Grace Vitaglione and Jaymie Baxley This week, partners were told the Healthy Opportunities Program will end July 1 because proposed state spending plans effectively eliminate funding for the three-year-old program. In 2022, Christina Schnabel was a single mom in Hendersonville barely making ends meet. She lived in public housing and made do with help from services like Medicaid and SNAP. Her son suffered from chronic gastrointestinal symptoms…
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