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USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service awarded a cooperative agreement of nearly $10 million to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in support of ongoing efforts to modernize and enhance WIC, with the goal of helping all eligible mothers and children access the program to afford healthy food. 

USDA announced that low-income Florida residents in 11 counties (Citrus, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Suwanee, and Taylor) recovering from Hurricane Idalia beginning Aug. 30, 2023, could be eligible for a helping hand from the USDA’s D-SNAP.

The USDA Food and Nutrition Service has awarded the Mississippi Department of Human Services $421,471 to help improve their recipient fraud prevention, detection and investigation efforts by implementing principles from the SNAP Fraud Framework.

The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has awarded the Texas Department of Health and Human Services Commission $723,564 to help improve their recipient fraud prevention, detection and investigation efforts by implementing principles from the SNAP Fraud Framework.

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has awarded the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services $749,987 to help improve recipient fraud prevention, detection and investigation efforts by implementing principles from the SNAP Fraud Framework. 

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has awarded the Wisconsin Department of Health Services $662,689 to help improve recipient fraud prevention, detection and investigation efforts by implementing principles from the SNAP Fraud Framework. 

The Mountain Plains Regional Office of USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has awarded the Colorado Department of Human Services $537,504 to help improve recipient fraud prevention, detection and investigation efforts by implementing principles from the SNAP Fraud Framework. 

USDA announced that low-income Hawaii residents recovering from the devastating wildfires beginning Aug. 8, 2023, could be eligible for assistance from the USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or D-SNAP.

USDA reminds communities, farmers and ranchers, families and small businesses in the path of Hurricane Idalia that USDA has programs that provide assistance in the wake of disasters.

USDA signed contracts with eight tribes for new Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations Self-Determination Demonstration Projects. Empowering tribal nations to select and purchase foods themselves helps better align FDPIR food packages with tribal dietary preferences, supports indigenous agricultural producers and honors tribal sovereignty.

As part of a cooperative agreement to develop and implement the USDA’s Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative, Action for Healthy Kids today announced that it is awarding nearly $30 million in subgrants to 264 school districts across 44 states and the District of Columbia, reaching students in some of the nation’s highest need schools.

The USDA today announced it has awarded a cooperative agreement to Regents of the University of Minnesota to support the development of the public health workforce in WIC. This cooperative agreement is part of a joint initiative between USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and FNS intended to improve the health of WIC participants by increasing the diversity and cultural competency of the WIC workforce and promoting culturally responsive care.