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@omarleal97 SNAP-Ed (CalFresh Healthy Living) helps low-income families make healthier food choices and live active lives through nutrition education and community programs. It empowers kids in schools, parents at home, and communities across the country. I’ve been working for this program for 5 years and have seen the positive impact it has made in people’s lives. Thank you @Gavin Newsom #SaveSnap ♬ original sound - Omar L

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SNAP-Ed saves money and stretches dollars.

Congress is considering a bill that would eliminate SNAP-Ed—a critical program that helps low-income families make healthier food choices and lead more active lives.

SNAP-Ed is a proven, cost-effective program that empowers people who receive SNAP to improve their health, stretch their food dollars, and become self-reliant.

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Read the rebuttal to the Statement that SNAP-Ed is duplicative.

Testimonials

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SNAP-Ed Supports Pantries, Farmers’ Markets, and Subsidized Housing Sites
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SNAP-Ed Supports Pantries, Farmers’ Markets, and Subsidized Housing Sites

"I work at the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina and have used nutrition information flyers created by DINE. We distribute flyers to food pantries and participants have really enjoyed the

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SNAP-Ed in North Carolina Schools
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SNAP-Ed in North Carolina Schools

"DINE has provided invaluable experiences for our students. They experience growing, harvesting, and eating new foods. DINE supports our cooking club so students can experience healthy foods in creative ways. Our fifth graders

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SNAP-Ed Runs Nutrition Ed for Clinic Patients
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SNAP-Ed Runs Nutrition Ed for Clinic Patients

"DINE came to our clinic to offer a creative, welcoming, bilingual nutrition class for our patients. Offering these services in the community benefits our entire community. Thank you, DINE team, for adding so

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Elementary Students Garden and Learn with SNAP-Ed
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Elementary Students Garden and Learn with SNAP-Ed

"My classroom of students at Dry Creek Elementary School in Port Angeles, WA, had beneficial experiences getting out into our school garden with the expertise of Amelia, SNAP-Ed Farm to School Educator and

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Elementary Students Learn Lifelong Skills
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Elementary Students Learn Lifelong Skills

'I have had the pleasure of working directly with Mrs. Annie through the DINE Nutrition Program at Eastway Elementary for the past two years. This partnership has provided our students with meaningful connections

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SNAP-Ed Partners with Pantry to Offer Healthier Food Options
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SNAP-Ed Partners with Pantry to Offer Healthier Food Options

"Feed My Sheep of Durham Food Pantry is incredibly grateful for its transformative partnership with DINE (SNAP-ed). DINE's expertise has been instrumental in helping the pantry offer more nutritious food choices to its

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North Carolina Teacher
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North Carolina Teacher

"DINE is a fun way to encourage student to learn healthy ways to enjoy food. I love how it offers opportunities that it gives students in the community to try something new and

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SNAP-Ed Partners with Senior Centers to Improve Older Adult Health
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SNAP-Ed Partners with Senior Centers to Improve Older Adult Health

"The Durham County DINE (Durham’s Innovative Nutrition Education) program, in partnership with the Durham Center for Senior Life, has made a meaningful impact on the health and well-being of adults aged 55 and

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Maine SNAP-Ed Implementer
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Maine SNAP-Ed Implementer

"I have worked for SNAP-Ed in the Waterville and Biddeford areas over a span of 6 years, both pre- and post-COVID. Especially post-pandemic, I have noticed a lack of nutrition education within elementary

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SNAP-Ed Empowers Older Adults
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SNAP-Ed Empowers Older Adults

"I am the director of programs at the Senior Center in Durham NC, I’ve seen firsthand how much the DINE program means to our older adult members. Many of our seniors live on

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SNAP-Ed Teaches Healthy Habits to Over 31,000 Durham Students
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SNAP-Ed Teaches Healthy Habits to Over 31,000 Durham Students

"DINE provides unparalleled nutrition, food, and healthy living education to thousands of Durham Public Schools students each year. They are the only providers of this education to Durham's 31,000+ students over their careers,

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SNAP-Ed Support Diabetes Management and Prevention
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SNAP-Ed Support Diabetes Management and Prevention

"The DINE Program has played a significant role in supporting the group I work with, which concentrates on diabetes prevention and management. Each year, DINE provides my participants with a comprehensive and engaging

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Research Articles

LT17: Health Care Cost Savings

“Existing studies show that for every $1 spent to implement programs such as EFNEP and SNAP-Ed education programs, up to $10.64 is saved in health care costs.5 These studies pre-date the provisions of HHFKA and SNAP-Ed's expanded reach through comprehensive scope of services, thus we anticipate potential health care costs savings to be even greater.”

SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education) Increases Long-Term Food Security among Indiana Households with Children in a Randomized Controlled Study

Rivera, R. L., Maulding, M. K., Abbott, A. R., Craig, B. A., & Eicher-Miller, H. A. (2016). SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education) Increases Long-Term Food Security among Indiana Households with Children in a Randomized Controlled Study. The Journal of nutrition, 146(11), 2375–2382. https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.116.231373

The SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework: demonstrating the impact of a national framework for obesity prevention in low-income populations

This article introduces and describes the benefits of the newly developed SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework (Framework) and companion Interpretive Guide to consistently measure SNAP-Ed outcomes across different settings

Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program–Education (SNAP-Ed) on food security and dietary outcomes

This narrative review summarizes current investigations of SNAP-Ed’s effectiveness at improving food security and dietary outcomes, and it can help inform future policy and implementation of the program.

Creating healthier Illinoisans: SNAP-Ed generates up to $135 million in future benefits

Cost-benefit analysis conducted for nutrition education in California:

A cost-benefit analysis was conducted using the program demographics and food-related dietary behavior of participants enrolled in California’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), based on methodology developed by Virginia Cooperative Extension.

The US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education improves nutrition-related behaviors

This study suggests that SNAP-Ed direct education is associated with positive behaviour changes in the US Southeast.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education reductions during COVID-19 may have exacerbated health inequities

Woodward-Lopez, G., Esaryk, E. E., Hewawitharana, S. C., Kao, J., Talmage, E., & Rider, C. D. (2023).

Making Headlines

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“[SNAP] is really MAHA for low-income people,” Jerry Mande, adjunct professor of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told your host. “Not just SNAP recipients, but all low-income people.”
GOP reconciliation bill inches forward Politico
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, or SNAP-Ed, faces elimination in a GOP bill, sparking concerns about the impact on low-income Americans' health education.
Nutrition program for Americans on food stamps at risk in GOP bill The Washington Post
"The cost of this program is roughly half a billion dollars a year, not even a rounding error in the federal budget. Cutting it does no good for anyone, undercuts the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) agenda, and is thoughtless and unnecessary."
The next tragic—absurd—budget cut: SNAP-ED Food Politics
“It does, in fact, enact deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP that will result in eligible people losing those benefits. It will raise grocery prices and health care costs for tens of thousands of West Virginia families,”
‘A really bad deal for West Virginians’: Advocates decry GOP’s cuts to health care, food assistance The West Virginia Daily News
“The loss of SNAP-Ed funding may further hinder public health efforts, reducing resources for obesity prevention and nutrition education in immigrant communities. States may face pressure to cover these gaps, but fiscal constraints could limit such efforts, disproportionately harming low-income and immigrant populations.”
Anti-hunger, food, farm groups react to House GOP ag proposal The Fence
An initial analysis by the Wisconsin DHS showed that a set of proposals in the new bill to cut funding for the SNAP program would take food away from families, shift costs to Wisconsin taxpayers, and increase red-tape requirements, making it harder for parents, kids, people with disabilities, and older adults to get food assistance.
REPORT: New House Bill Harms Wisconsin Economy, Drives People Into Hunger B105

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