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Promising Practices - Texas

Texas – The Wichita Falls Area Food Bank initiated a Social Services Outreach Program which operates as a one-stop shop. Application Completion Centers are set up around town at advertized times and at high traffic places such as grocery stores and churches to help people access various programs. The Outreach Coordinator, using a computer, scanner, and printer, assists with filling out the application, makes copies of necessary documents, and even delivers the completed applications to the correct Health and Human Services office. During November and December 2007, this outreach program served 50 people. The highest demand was for SNAP. Funding for this project is provided by state government through the Texas Food Bank Network. For more information, contact: Veronica Harvey, Social Services Outreach Program Coordinator, Wichita Falls Area Food Bank, 1230 Midwestern Parkway, Wichita Falls, Texas 76302, vharvey@wfafb.org, 940-636-8240.

Texas – Outreach workers from Lone Star Legal Aid, conducting a one-year FY 2004 Food Stamp Program Outreach grant project that targeted seniors, realized they had difficulty keeping the attention of audiences at congregate meal sites and senior centers as these gatherings were important social functions. Instead of interrupting lunch with a speech, they created a presentation that would rotate slides automatically and run silently and continuously on the wall. This strategy dramatically improved the responses to their outreach. For more information, contact: Susanne Sere, Lone Star Legal Aid, 1415 Fannin St., Third Floor, Houston, TX 77002, ssere@lonestarlegal.org, 713-982-1968.

Texas – The Department of Health and Human Services implemented a Food Stamp Education and Outreach Program lasting from January 2002 through August 2005. To date, over one million individuals have received information about the Food Stamp Program through direct intervention activities such as television ads, radio ads, and ads in print. Also as part of this effort, Texas HHS partnered with 18 food banks to arrange for distribution of Food Stamp Program outreach brochures with monthly commodity distribution packets. For more information, contact: Anne Snell, FNS Southwestern Regional office, snell.a@fns.usda.gov,214-290-9900.

Last modified: 04/30/2009