Community Food Resources
As uncertainty continues around the funding of SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program), the National Center for START Services® is setting up this blog entry to share community food resources for the START network and beyond. If you have a resource you would like to add, please contact NCSS Marketing Manager Jackie Drake at jacquelyn.drake@unh.edu. Please feel free to share this blog entry with your colleagues and communities.
National Resources
START Resources
Thanks to CA START Redwood Coast for sharing this printable social story. A social story is a visual tool to help people with intellectual/developmental disabilities understand a complex situation and navigate the surrounding expectations and emotions.
- SNAP Social Story (This PDF is intended for print)
State Resources
California
- www.cafoodbanks.org/our-members/
- Orange County: feedoc.org/need-food/
- Orange County: friendlycenter.org/help/
- Los Angeles: parks.lacounty.gov/lacounty-parks-food-programs/
- Los Angeles: www.ymcala.org/programs/social/feedla/
- San Francisco and Oakland: www.openhand.org/get-meals
- Mountain View (San Jose): www.csacares.org/services/food-nutrition-center/
- Silicon Valley: www.shfb.org/get-food/
- Long Beach: lbrm.org/what-we-do/get-help-now/
- Central California: ccfoodbank.org/home/findfood/
- San Luis Obispo: slofoodbank.org/en/food-locator/
Colorado
Connecticut
- mobilefoodpantry.ctfoodshare.org/
- New Haven Food Assistance Resource Guide
- www.trinityhealthofne.org/location/the-joan-c-dauber-food-pantry
- action-lab.org/hartford-shelf/resources/
Florida
- harrychapinfoodbank.org/our-impact/programs/mobile-pantry-program/
- allfaithsfoodbank.org/foodfinder/
New Hampshire
North Carolina
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Please note that the information in this blog is for general awareness purposes only. The National Center for START Services® and the University of New Hampshire are not responsible for the content at these links and do not endorse the organizations shown.
