CSFP | The Commodity Supplemental Food Program | Program that provides food assistance for low-income seniors with a monthly package of healthy USDA commodities. |
ForDisabled | Programs for Persons with Disabilities | Public programs to supplement lost income due to physical or mental impairment that prevents a person from working. Examples include: Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) |
FoodAssistance | Food Assistance Program | Programs that aid people experiencing hunger. For example, public and privately funded Food Banks/Food Pantries, Mobile Food Outreach Programs, Child Nutrition and Food Disttribution Program, Farmers to Families, School Breakfast Program. |
ForSeniors | Program for Seniors | Programs that provide financial help, community based services that allow seniors to remain at home, home-delivered meals, home heating, etc.Examples of Federal programs that support aging include Section 8 Housing, Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), Medicare & Medicaid,the Commodity Supplemental Food Program(CSFP). |
Homelessness | Homelessness Prevention Programs | Programs providing financial and support services that help keep people in their current housing, help them to move into new housing, and to prevent people from experiencing homelessness. |
ONHPP | Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs | Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs (ONHPP) manages health, prevention, and wellness programs for older adults. This includes behavorial health information, chronic disease self-management education programs; diabetes self-management, disease prevention and health promotion services (“Title IIID”), falls prevention programs; HIV/AIDS education, nutrition services, and oral health promotion. |
SNAP | Suplemental Nutrition Assistance Program | SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as the Food Stamp Program. SNAP is a government program that provides a sliding scale of income designated for food to low-wage working families, low-income seniors, people with disabilities, and other individuals with low incomes. |
TANF | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides states and territories with flexibility in operating programs designed to help low-income families with children achieve economic self-sufficiency. States use TANF to fund monthly cash assistance payments to low-income families with children, as well as a wide range of services. |
TEFAP | The Emergency Food Assistance Program | Program that provides nutritious foods and nutrition education for low-income, at risk women, infants. |
WIC | Women, Infants, & Children | Program that provides nutritious foods and nutrition education for low-income, at risk women, infants. |