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Are You Getting the Recommended Daily Allotment of Federal Nutrition
Dollars?

The Federal Response to Nutrition Assistance

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Objectives:

To highlight the nutrition assistance programs that help serve homeless
families

To increase awareness of the availability of funding opportunities

To encourage exchange among State participants regarding approaches for
using nutrition programs for families experiencing homelessness

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Federal Nutrition Assistance

15 Programs

FNS budget is \$59 billion in FY 2006, or 62% of USDA budget of \$95
billion

FSP is \$36 billion, or 61% of FNS budget, (38% of USDA budget)

Serves 1 in 6 Americans

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What Federal help exists?

Food Stamp Program: Provides a monthly electronic benefit to a wide
range of needy people that can be used to purchase a wide variety of
food

Not restricted to specific groups of people

National rules, State administration

25.6 million people received \$2.4 billion in benefits (07/05)

\$92.47 per person per month

56% of all eligible persons participated in FY 2003

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What Federal help exists?

Rules for Homeless Families in the Food Stamp Program

\$143 homeless shelter deduction for those paying something for their
shelter

Can purchase prepared meals in certain authorized locations

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What Federal help exists?

Child Nutrition Programs:

School Lunch Program

School Breakfast Program

After-school Snack Program

Child & Adult Care Food Program

Summer Food Service Program

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What Federal help exists?

National School Lunch Program: Allows low-income children access to
nutritious lunches and the opportunity to practice skills learned in
classroom nutrition education

Schools are reimbursed for meals

29.5 million students participated (07/05)

\$6.7 billion spent on meals in FY2004

49% of meals were free, 10% were reduced price

Nearly half of school children participate

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What Federal help exists?

The School Breakfast Program: Provides cash assistance to States to
nonprofit breakfast programs in schools and residential childcare
institutions

Schools/institutions are reimbursed for meals

9.3 million students participated thru 07/05

Cost \$1.6 billion in cost thru 07/05

1.35 billion breakfasts served thru 7/05

73% were free and 9% were reduced price

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What Federal help exists?

Summer Food Service Program: Ensures that children in lower-income areas
can continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations,
when they do not have access to school lunch or breakfast

Institutions are reimbursed for meals

Served 101 million meals thru 7/05 (116 million meals during the summer
of 2004)

30,716 sites in FY2004

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What Federal help exists?

Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Provides healthy meals and
snacks to children and adults receiving day care

Reimburses meal costs

2.96 million participants ate 1.6 billion total million meals (07/05);
1.75 billion total cost thru 07/05

20,274 sponsors including 257 homeless centers

Total cost: \$2 billion in FY2004

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What Federal help exists?

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC): Serves low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 who
are at nutritional risk by providing vouchers for nutritious foods to
supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and referrals to health
care\
Nearly 8 million participants served thru 07/05

50% children, 26% infants

Nearly half of all babies born in US

\$4.1 billion cost thru 07/05

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What Federal help exists?

Food Distribution Programs: These include the Food Distribution Program
on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), Nutrition Services Incentive Program
(NSIP), Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), and The Emergency
Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)

FDPIR gives commodity packages to its participants

NSIP provides cash and commodities to DHHS

CSFP & TEFAP provide commodities to institutions

Total cost was \$673 million in FY2004

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Getting Funds

Funding Opportunities

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Funding Opportunities

FSP Funding:

Awarded 8 outreach grants totaling nearly \$1 million to study and
implement innovative outreach techniques in FY04 and another \$1million
to another 8 projects in FY05

Awarded 11 grants totaling nearly \$10 million to States and
community-based agencies through the FSP Participation Grants to help
simplify food stamp applications and eligibility systems through the use
of innovative strategies. Of the \$10 million awarded, \$5 million was
for FY2005 projects

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Funding Opportunities

Participation Grants---Who can apply in FY06?\
State agencies administering FSP

State or Local governments

Agencies providing health or welfare services

Public health or educational entities and

Private nonprofit entities, such as community or faith-based
organizations, food banks, or other emergency feeding organizations

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Funding Opportunities

Participation Grants---What did they want in FY05?

Demonstrated partnerships between State and private non-profit,
including faith-based and community-based organizations

\$1 million of the \$5 million was set aside for proposals demonstrating
this partnership

Applications that facilitate the processing of applications for FSP and
Prescription Drug Program and possibly others such as TANF, Medicaid,
and Child Care

At least one award was to be made that coordinated processing of
applications for two programs

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Funding Opportunities

Outreach Grants---

The purpose of these grants is to study innovative outreach techniques.

However, outreach grantees do not just study outreach. The grantees
actually implement outreach. For example, many outreach grantees work
with homeless shelters conducting outreach on the street to address the
needs of the homeless

Target audiences are primarily seniors, immigrants, and the working poor

Thus far, no projects have focused solely on homelessness

FSP has awarded outreach grants in FY 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005

Subject to appropriation, there could be more outreach grants in FY06

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Links

FNS Grants:

<http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/grants.htm>

Outreach homepage: <http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/outreach/default.htm>

Outreach plan guidance and list of past grant awards:

<http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/outreach/grants.htm>

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Contacts

Food Stamp Outreach Coalition listserv. Email fsoc@fns.usda.gov to stay
connected to the latest in outreach

Information on Grants on web at:
<http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/grants.htm>

Outreach Grant contact: Suzanne Pastura

<suzanne.pastura@fns.usda.gov> (703) 305-2867

Participation Grant contact: Lisa Johnson

<lisa.johnson@fns.usda.gov> (703)305-2848

Food Stamp Program policy: Vicky Robinson

<vicky.robinson@fns.usda.gov> (703)305-2476