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