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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Promising Practices - Vermont

Vermont – Partnering with Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger and Vermont Grocer’s Association, the State Agency for Human Services – Division for Children and Families, held a press conference at a supermarket to announce changes in the FSP that made it easier to apply and be deemed eligible. For more information, contact: Renee W. Richardson, Food and Nutrition Program Chief, Agency for Human Services, Division of Children and Families, 103 South Main Street, Waterbury, VT 05671, 802-241-2820, reneer@ahs.state.vt.us.

Vermont – The Agency for Human Services supports 150 field workers in local agencies around the State, paid for through their Food Stamp Outreach Plan. They assert this community-based agency connection builds a safe bridge between a State-run program bureaucracy and people who are intimidated by applying for public assistance of any kind. For more information, contact: Renee W. Richardson, Food and Nutrition Program Chief, Agency for Human Services, Division of Children and Families, 103 South Main Street, Waterbury, VT 05671, 802-241-2820, reneer@ahs.state.vt.us.

Vermont – Partnering with Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger, the Agency for Human Services developed a Food Stamp Outreach website pre-screening tool with a USDA research grant. For more information, contact: Renee W. Richardson, Food and Nutrition Program Chief, Agency for Human Services, Division of Children and Families, 103 South Main Street, Waterbury, VT 05671, 802-241-2820, reneer@ahs.state.vt.us.

Vermont – Roundtable discussions were organized by the Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger including staff from USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, the Agency for Human Services Division of Children and Families, VTCECH, Vermont Law Line, Vermont’s Congressional Delegation, and others. These roundtable discussions tapped ideas for no cost or low cost FSP Outreach. For more information, contact: Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger, 180 Flynn Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401, 802-865-0255.

 

Last modified: 04/30/2009