Community Nutrition ch 10

How do you determine if your elgible for SNAP?

-2,000 or less in countable resources - If 60 yrs. Or disabled 3,250 in assets

Food Resources Safety Net

-Food Banks and food pantries - Feeding America -Soup Kitchen -Community food security

Breakfast and lunch programs: Free meals

-Household income <130% of poverty guidelines

Child and Adult care food Program

-Reimburses for food served at care centers -Provides nutritious meals for children, the elderly & certain people with disability Head Start programs, Homeless shelters, Day care center/Day programs for adults

PA TANF Program and eligibility

1 person: maximum amount $215/ month Tioga County -Total of 60 months of assistance in a lifeitme

National School Lunch Program

2011-2015 Participation 19.6 million children received free/ reduced lunches purpose: assist states in providing nutritious free or reduce- price lunches to eligible children

Food Security

Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life

Suitability

Culturally? Storage & prep. Appropriate Food security components

Entitlement program

Defined as a government program that provide cash, commodities, or services to all qualifying low income individuals, or household

Why has Food Insecurity Increased in the Past Decade?

Dramatic rise in Unemployment Poverty Foreclosures Economic distress Low wages High housing and health care costs

PA TANF Program and Eligbility

Elgibility: Pregnant women Dependent children & parents or other relatives care for the children

What is the largest supplier of donated food

Feeding America

What are some food resource safety net

Food Banks and food pantries Feeding America Soup Kitchens Community food security

1930s Great Depression

Government distribution of food commodities

Household food security : 4 categories

High food security Marginal food security Low food security Very low food security

USDA

In 2010, 95 percent of all federal expenditures for food assistance went to five programs:

Who are the Food Insecure?

Inner-city and rural dwellers Certain southern and western states Farmers The homeless

why would individual forgo seeking benefits?

Intimidation, ineligibility, complicated paperwork,

Food insecurity

Limited or uncertain ability to acquire or consume an adequate quality or sufficient quantity of food in socially acceptable ways

Quality

Nutritionally adequate Food security components

What food Banks and food pantries do?

Provide donated food to nonprofit and charitable groups

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program 1961

Purpose to improve the diets of low-income households by increasing access to food/food purchasing ability

What Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) do ?

Reimburses for food served at care centers Provides nutritious meals for children, the elderly, & certain people with disability

Psychological

Relief from anxiety, deprivation, lack of choice Food security components

USDA

Responsible for administering 15 food assistance and distribution programs

Social

Social acceptance Food security components

Current Food Assistance Programs

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP; formerly Food Stamp Program) Entitlement program SNAP-ED

What are other programs for children

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP; formerly Food Stamp Program) Entitlement program SNAP-ED

Welfare Reform: Welfare to Work

Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Program - States determine need

Who are the Food Insecure?

The poor The working poor The young Ethnic minorities Older adults

Soup kitchens

a small feeding operation attached to an existing organization, such as church, civic group, or nonprofit agency

Quantity

access sufficient Food security components

School Breakfast Program

assist states in providing nutritious breakfast to children

1946 National School Lunch Act

background food assistance program

Experimental Food Stamp program

background food assistance program

Community food security

community gardens, food recovery, farm to cafeteria initiatives

Breakfast and lunch programs: Full price

greater than 185% poverty guidelines

What is the paradox of food insecurity and obesity in America?

hunger and food insecurity have been called Americas hidden crisis at the same time obesity been declared an epidemic *intake of low nutrients exceed calorie

Breakfast and lunch programs: Reduced meals

income between 130-185% of poverty guidelines

Feeding America

larges supplier of donated food

Summer food service program for children

meals offered at sites to low-income children during summer

Food banks

provide donated food to nonprofit and charitable groups

After school snack program

provides healthy snacks based in NSLP guidelines up to age 18

Child and Adult Care Food Program

purpose: improve quality and affordability of day care for low-income families by providing nutritious meals and snacks to children and to adults who received care in nonresidential adult day care center

The emergency food assistance program 1981

purpose: supplement the diets of low- income needy persons, including oldr adults by providing them with emergency food amd nutrition assistance

Commodity foods 1961

purpose: support american agricultural producers by providing cash reimbusrsement for meals served in schools

Commodity supplemental food programs 1969

purpose: to improve the health and nutritional status of low income pregnant and breastfeeding women, new mothers up to one year postpartum -infants, children up to age of 6 -older adults at least 60 years of age

Poverty

the highest identified reason for food insecurity and hunger State of having too little money to meet minimum requirements for food, clothing, and shelter.

Food pantry

usually attached to existing nonprofit agencies, a food pantry distributes bags or boxes of groceries to people experiencing food emergencies. Distributed foods are prepared and consumed elsewhere, Pantries often require referrals or proof of need