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SNAP and SNAP-Ed: Supporting Food and Nutrition Security in Your Community

SNAP and SNAP-Ed: Supporting Food and Nutrition Security in Your Community

About This Webinar:

This webinar discusses how SNAP and SNAP-Ed align with national food and nutrition security strategies. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the cornerstone of the USDA’s nutrition assistance safety net. SNAP Nutrition Education (SNAP-Ed) is SNAP’s nutrition education and health promotion component.  Attend this webinar to learn how you can collaborate with your state and local SNAP-Ed programs to  provide the best care possible to your clients and connect them to resources that can help.

Food insecurity may be identified during a preventive care visit or Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) appointment through the USDA two-question screener.  Food insecurity may also be identified by Registered Dietitians, nutrition educators or other services providers in a variety of settings. When identified, connecting clients to SNAP and SNAP-Ed may be appropriate.

SNAP provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of needy families so they can purchase healthy food and move towards self-sufficiency.  SNAP-Ed focuses on good nutrition, stretching food dollars, living physically active lifestyles, and engaging partners to build healthier communities. This helps to ensure a healthy choice is the easiest choice to make where people live, work, shop, play, eat, and learn.

Learning Objectives:

After this presentation, attendees should be able to:

  1. Describe the purpose of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
  2. Explain how SNAP Nutrition Education (SNAP-Ed) promotes healthy diet and physical activity behaviors.
  3. Identify how SNAP-Ed aligns with National food and nutrition security strategies.
  4. Give two examples of collaboration with state and local SNAP-Ed projects.

Food Security in Focus

Take advantage of OneOp’s Food Security in Focus collection, offering live and on-demand programming related to food security.

Among our nation’s active-duty service members and their families, an estimated 24 percent are food insecure. Food insecurity adversely impacts racial/ethnic minority populations, lower-income populations, and rural and remote populations. Additionally, a rise in economic insecurity throughout the Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to increased food insecurity in vulnerable populations. Join OneOp as we focus on expanding food security for the military family and mobilizing family service professionals at federal, state, and local levels to work together on this issue.

Presenters:

  • Dr. Aurora Calvillo Buffington – Branch Chief, Nutrition Education Branch, Program Administration and Nutrition Division., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), USDA Food and Nutrition Service
  • Doris Chin, MPH, RDN – Nutritionist, Nutrition Education Branch, Program Administration and Nutrition Division, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), USDA Food and Nutrition Service
  • Laura Griffin, MS – Senior Policy Advisor and Chief of Staff, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Continuing education credit is available.

Register here: https://oneop.org/event/147548/

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