USDA Free Outreach Materials: The USDA has a new site and order or download outreach materials by going to http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/outreach/default.htm and selecting the third item on the list entitled “Food Stamp Materials for Order or Download.”

Food Stamp Posters for VITA Clinics: CAFB partnered with the California Department of Health - Network for Healthy Families and the Alameda County Community Food Bank to creat a poster that can be placed at VITA clinics to let people know that if they get Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), they may also be eligibile for food stamps. Download a PDF of the English version or Spanish version.

Manual Pre-screening Tool for California: The California Association of Food Bank has developed this simple manual tool that requires no technology. This tool is especially helpful to determine potential eligibility for mixed status households, where some members have legal-permanent or citizenship status and others do not. In these cases, the standard income guidelines may not apply as the income of certain household members may need to be pro-rated. You may also get a copy of the Benchmark Institute prescreen tool. This tool is in Excel format with built-in equations. To get a copy, contact us today. Please Note: This tool and all screening tools are updated every October, with new income guidelines.

USDA Free Public Service Announcements: Wondering how you can use the power of television to spread your food stamp message without spending a lot of money?  USDA, Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) has made it much easier for food stamp outreach providers to use television as an educational medium by providing you with a ready-to-use television public service announcement (PSA) in English and Spanish.  The television PSA is 30 seconds long.  It features a mother and her young daughter shopping for healthy food and using their food stamp card to make their purchase.  It ends with the family eating a healthy meal together.  The voiceover talks about the importance of the basics – health, family, shelter, and enough to eat. Link to View Television PSA:  http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/outreach/psas.htm To request a copy of the television PSA, send an email to fspoutreach@fns.usda.gov. Link to Tool Kits:  http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/outreach/tool-kits.htm  (Click on Public Service Announcements under Tool Kit for Community and Faith-based Groups).

2006-07 Income Guidelines Insert : Use this nice little insert to put inside your flyer or another flyer that doesn't have this year's guidelines, or simply have available at your outreach information tables. Click here to get a printible version of the Income Guidelines Insert.

Resources to educate people about Public Charge:  If people are concerned that applying for food stamps will make them a public charge, these tools might work.

Letter from CIS: A letter from the CIS letting people know that applying for and receiving food stamps does not impact a person's current or future residency status. A printable copy of the flyer is available in English or Spanish.

Flyer from National Immigrant Law Center: Here is a flyer from the National Immigrant Law Center has made (specific to California) in English.  For copies in other languages, go to http://www.nilc.org/ce/ceindex.htm#pubchrg. 

Flyers from California Immigrant Welfare Coalition: There are several flyers from CIWC in English , Cantonese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Thai or Spanish. For more materials, go to http://www.nilc.org/ce/ceindex.htm#pubchrg.

 

More California Materials to Come!