NAPS - Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors
Senior Hunger
Through the Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS), Minnesota’s Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), Second Harvest Heartland provides a box of nutritious food each month to low-income seniors 60 years of age and over. Program participants receive a box of highly nutritious food that may include canned fruits, vegetables and juices, milk, cheese, canned meat, peanut butter or dried beans, cereal, rice or pasta. Qualifying participants must be low-income Minnesota residents: seniors 60+ at 130% poverty level.
For more information on the NAPS program, please contact our team at naps@2harvest.org, or 651-484-8241 (toll-free 1-800-365-0270) or Agency Relations click here.
increase participation and reduce stigma
Ways you can include NAPS in your work: Talk about NAPS with seniors and their friends or families, help with enrollment or host a distribution site. If you’d like to include NAPS outreach in your work, please reach out to Agency Relations click here.
A volunteer readies NAPS boxes for distribution.
Senior Resources
End Senior Hunger-AARP Facts about Senior Hunger
You Shouldn’t Have to Choose-AARP brochure State of Senior Hunger Report
Senior Hunger Toolkit (2016) Food Insecurity Takes Toll on Older Adults
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP information. SNAP is a great way to provide seniors with extra food funds! Use this video in your outreach work or to educate volunteers. SNAP use among seniors is especially low. Barriers include not knowing about the program, thinking that they aren’t eligible or being worried it will “take food away” from someone else. While stigma affects many people seeking assistance, it can be particularly hard for seniors to ask for help.
Learn more about SNAP by clicking here
If you are interested in including SNAP outreach in your work, please contact Agency Relations for support. Our SNAP Outreach Specialists provide one on one application assistance to clients and help us support Agency Partners with the SNAP questions, outreach needs and more!