A pilot program that gave a cash payment of $5,500 to approximately 600 low-income families in D.C. helped provide food security and mental health during the pandemic according to an Urban Institute analysis of the program's effectiveness.
The THRIVE East of the River cash-payment program, a combined effort of four established D.C. nonprofits, launched in 2020 soon after the pandemic began. It gave $5,500 with no-strings-attached to approximately 600 families in Ward 8, where the median income is $40,000, under half the Districtwide median.to address their needs, program administrators said, and removed
Recipients surveyed for the study, which was released Thursday, reported lower rates of mental health stressors and food insecurity than people with comparable incomes in the District and nationally.For Rahgeena Preble, a single mother of two young children who lives in southeast D.C., the money arrived last year when she needed it most. She didn’t have a car and had missed a couple of doctor’s appointments for her children because of unreliable transportation.
District residents: Martha’s Table, Bread for the City, the Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative and 11th Street Bridge Park . The program raised more than $4 million in private and foundation funding to pay for the cash relief effort.Administrators say the results were a success by almost every measure. According to the report, a key goal of THRIVE — to stabilize participants hard hit by crisis — was mostly achieved.
Mary Bogle, principal research associate at the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank that conducts economic and social policy research, said the numbers on food and mental health are particularly compelling.
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