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Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon: Volunteer to End Senior Hunger
Posted by hannah.cherry
Volunteer to End Senior Hunger
For the past few years, PHFO’s SNAP Outreach Team has run a SNAP Application Assistance Pilot with organizations in the Portland-Metro area to focus our outreach and application assistance on seniors, who tend to have a very low participation rate in SNAP compared with the general population.
This year we are working with Meals on Wheels in Washington and Multnomah counties to continue to adapt and improve our application assistance model. The focus will be on face-to-face interactions within Meals on Wheels meal sites. The project will be running between April and July of 2017. Training on SNAP and Application assistance as well as orientation to Meals on Wheels sites will happen in mid-to-late April (exact dates TBA).
Contact Information
Celia Meredith, SNAP Outreach AmeriCorps VISTA
celia@oregonhunger.org | 503-595-5501 x301
oregonhunger.org
About the Organization
We envision an Oregon where everyone is healthy and thriving, with access to affordable, nutritious and culturally appropriate food. To bring that vision into reality, we raise awareness about hunger, connect people to nutrition programs, and advocate for systemic changes that end hunger before it begins.