- Child and Adult Care Food Program helps child and adult day care facilities, and family day homes to improve the nutritional quality of the meals they provide to the individuals receiving services at their facilities.
- National School Lunch/School Breakfast Programs provide free and low-cost lunch and breakfast during the school day to children. These programs encourage healthy eating habits and promote meals using locally produced agricultural foods and donated commodities.
- Summer Food Service Program provides free, nutritious meals to children who might otherwise go hungry when the school year has ended or is closed. The meals are usually provided along with educational or recreational activities.
- Special Milk Program helps to provide milk to children who attend schools, nurseries, child-care centers, summer camps or who live in residential child care institutions.
- Texas Commodity Assistance Program reduces hunger in Texas by distributing, through local food banks, a portion of the United States agricultural change abundance to surplus to low-income households, unemployed individuals and organizations that serve meals to low income persons.
- Commodity Supplemental Food Program distributes nutritious foods and provides nutrition education to low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women; infants; children age 6 and under; and people who are age 60 and older. It is currently only available to residents in Dallas, Dimmit, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kinney, Maverick, Starr, Val Verde, Webb and Zapata counties.
- Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program provides resources in the form of fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and culinary herbs from farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and community-supported agriculture program to low-income seniors.
Updated:
December 8, 2009
