Expanding SPOON’s Reach Through Work with USAID20230118102314
Expanding SPOON’s Reach Through Work with USAID
January 18, 2023advancing, advancing nutrition, collaboration, disabilities, disability, feeding, feeding difficulties, inclusion, leadership, learning, malnutrition, nutrition, resource, resource bank, resources, Thought Leadership, usaid0 comments
Recently, SPOON had a chance to collaborate with USAID Advancing Nutrition in an effort to improve nutritional care for children with feeding difficul...
The Needs of 250 Million Children are Not ‘Niche’20220712164317
The Needs of 250 Million Children are Not ‘Niche’
July 12, 2022advocacy, alternative care, children, COVID, disabilities, disability, malnutrition, nutrition, policy, research, residential care0 comments
SPOON serves two groups of children who face some of the highest rates of malnutrition: children with disabilities and children without family care (i...
A Chair for Every Child20220510181348
A Chair for Every Child
May 10, 2022accessibility, assistive technology, caregivers, chair, children, disabilities, disability, feeding, learning, positioning, research, seating, spoon blog, support, testing, Uganda0 comments
Since 2019, SPOON has partnered with Utensile, an Oregon-based product development company, to create a safe and affordable seating solution for child...
Strength in Numbers: Why Data Matter to Nourish All Children20220121154728
Strength in Numbers: Why Data Matter to Nourish All Children
January 21, 2022advocacy, children, data, disabilities, disability, nutrition, policy, research, resources, Thought Leadership0 comments
More than 250 million children worldwide have disabilities or are living without family care. These groups of children are at very high risk of malnut...
Promoting Nutrition and Disability Inclusion to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child20210915120007
Promoting Nutrition and Disability Inclusion to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
September 15, 2021children, leadership, programs, progress, research, resources, response, Thought Leadership, UNICEF0 comments
Promoting children's rights to nutrition and family careEvery child has the right to good health and to grow up in family care, and these rights are a...
One Year Later: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Nutrition20210421062520
One Year Later: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Nutrition
April 21, 2021advocacy, Belarus, COVID, disabilities, Haiti, research, resources, training, UNICEF, Zambia0 comments
As we mark more than one year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, SPOON is reflecting on the impact of the pandemic for children with disab...
Count Me In Presented at Micronutrient Forum Global Conference20201125061320
Count Me In Presented at Micronutrient Forum Global Conference
November 25, 2020caregivers, children, disabilities, feature, nutrition, progress, resources, response, SPOON in the News0 comments
SPOON’s work on reducing anemia is featured in this year’s Micronutrient Forum Global Conference. The conference convened experts, practitioners, and ...
New Global Research: The Importance of Nutrition for Vulnerable Children20201106072440
New Global Research: The Importance of Nutrition for Vulnerable Children
November 6, 2020children, COVID, disabilities, feature, nutrition, program, progress, research, resources, response0 comments
Children with disabilities and children without family care face some of the highest risks of malnutrition. Three recent articles call attention to th...
SPOON’s response to nourish ALL children through COVID-1920201105145045
SPOON’s response to nourish ALL children through COVID-19
November 5, 2020children, COVID, disabilities, feature, leadership, nutrition, progress, research, resources, response0 comments
COVID-19 threatens the health and safety of children around the world. In addition to the immediate threat of infection, COVID-19 is placing more chil...
Prioritizing nutrition and feeding in alternative care20200811121541
Prioritizing nutrition and feeding in alternative care
August 11, 2020alternate care, children, leadership, nutrition, programs, progress, research, resources, response0 comments
Prioritizing nutrition and feeding in alternative care, a new publication from SPOON, introduces the links between malnutrition, disability, and famil...
