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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
The
U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) National
Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded the Massachusetts
Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) a grant through the Food
Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) Grant Program to expand its Healthy
Incentives Pilot into a Healthy
Incentives Program (HIP) that will serve participants of the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) statewide. The program will
provide a 100 percent incentive – a dollar-for-dollar match – for
each SNAP dollar spent on targeted fruits and vegetables purchased at
farmers’ markets, farm stands, mobile markets, and Community
Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs statewide. These incentives
will be calculated and instantly applied to the SNAP recipient’s EBT
card, and information on the incentive earned and SNAP account
balance will be provided on the accompanying receipt. The maximum
incentive that can be earned each month will be based on household size.
Households with 1-2 members will be capped at $40, households with 3-5
members will be capped at $60, and households with 6 or more members
will be capped at $80. Maria Infante of Project
BREAD presented
on HIP at the March 6, 2017
Community Partnership meeting at St. Vincent's
organized by United
Neighbors of Fall River.
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(Top row) Lisa Alves of the Fall River WIC Program talks with United Neighbors of Fall River Executive Director Wendy Garf-Lipp who then talks with Maria Infante of Project BREAD and Beau Stubblefield-Tave of the Center for Culturally Fluent Leadership before the meeting begins. (Row two) Ms. Infante is introduced by Ms. Garf-Lipp and outlines how the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) will work starting in April. (Row three) Rhode Island College social work student Svetlana Goretaya responds to the presentation and asks questions along with Ms. Alves. (Bottom row) Ms. Garf-Lipp thanks Ms. Infante for her presentation as Ann Medeiros of CFC Family Planning and Kat Kasheta of the Family Service Association CSA Program listen. |
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