Tenemos una serie de programas que pueden ser de ayuda para usted.
Food Distribution Programs
Programa Suplementario de Productos Básicos (CSFP)
CSFP trabaja para mejorar la salud de mujeres de bajos ingresos embarazadas y que están amamantando, otras madres nuevas hasta por un año después de dar a luz, bebés, niños de hasta seis años de edad y ancianos de por lo menos 60 años de edad suplementando sus dietas con alimentos básicos nutritivos del USDA. Proporciona alimentos y fondos administrativos a los estados para suplementar las dietas de estos grupos.
DoD Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program provides free fresh fruits and vegetables in selected low-income elementary schools nationwide. The purpose of the Program is to increase children’s fresh fruit and vegetable consumption and at the same time combat childhood obesity by improving children’s overall diet and create healthier eating habits to impact their present and future health.
Programa de Distribución de Alimentos en Reservaciones Indígenas (FDPIR)
FDPIR es un programa federal que proporciona alimentos básicos a unidades familiares de bajos ingresos, incluyendo ancianos, que viven en reservaciones indígenas y a familias Indígenas de Estados Unidos que residen en áreas designadas cercanas a las reservaciones.
Nutrition Services Incentive Program (NSIP)
Schools/Child Nutrition USDA Foods Programs
Programa de Asistencia Alimenticia de Emergencia (TEFAP)
En el TEFAP, los alimentos básicos son proporcionados por el Departamento de Agricultura de EE.UU. Los estados proporcionan los alimentos a las agencias locales que seleccionaron, generalmente bancos de alimentos, los cuales a su vez distribuyen los alimentos a a comedores comunitarios y despensas de alimentos que directamente atienden al público.
Child Nutrition Programs
Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program plays a vital role in improving the quality of day care and making it more affordable for many low-income families. Each day, 2.6 million children receive nutritious meals and snacks through CACFP. The program also provides meals and snacks to 74,000 adults who receive care in nonresidential adult day care centers. CACFP reaches even further to provide meals to children residing in homeless shelters, and snacks and suppers to youths participating in eligible afterschool care programs.
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program provides free fresh fruits and vegetables in selected low-income elementary schools nationwide. The purpose of the Program is to increase children’s fresh fruit and vegetable consumption and at the same time combat childhood obesity by improving children’s overall diet and create healthier eating habits to impact their present and future health.
National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
School districts and independent schools that choose to take part in the lunch program get cash subsidies and donated commodities from the USDA for each meal they serve. In return, they must serve lunches that meet Federal requirements, and they must offer free or reduced price lunches to eligible children. School food authorities can also be reimbursed for snacks served to children through age 18 in afterschool educational or enrichment programs.
School Breakfast Program(SBP)
The School Breakfast Program operates in the same manner as the National School Lunch Program. School districts and independent schools that choose to take part in the breakfast program receive cash subsidies from the USDA for each meal they serve. In return, they must serve breakfasts that meet Federal requirements, and they must offer free or reduced price breakfasts to eligible children.
Special Milk Program (SMP)
Participating schools and institutions receive reimbursement from the USDA for each half pint of milk served. They must operate their milk programs on a non-profit basis. They agree to use the Federal reimbursement to reduce the selling price of milk to all children.
Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)
FSP is the single largest Federal resource available for local sponsors who want to combine a feeding program with a summer activity program. Children in your community do not need to go hungry this summer. During the school year, nutritious meals are available through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. But those programs end when school ends for the summer. The Summer Food Service Program helps fill the hunger gap.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP)
SNAP (formerly the Food Stamp Program) puts healthy food within reach for 28 million people each month via an EBT card used to purchase food at most grocery stores. Through nutrition education partners, SNAP helps clients learn to make healthy eating and active lifestyle choices.
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children - better known as the WIC Program - serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, & children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and referrals to health care.
Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP)
The WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) provides fresh, unprepared, locally grown fruits and vegetables from local farmers' markets to Women, Infants and Children (WIC) recipients
Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP)
The Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program awards grants to States, United States territories, and federally-recognized Indian tribal governments to provide low-income seniors with coupons that can be exchanged for eligible foods at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture programs.