Key Points
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) is an evidence-based program that helps people make their SNAP dollars stretch, teaches them how to shop for and cook healthy meals, and lead physically active lifestyles.
- SNAP-Ed partners with state and local organizations to meet people where they are. SNAP-Ed initiatives include nutrition education classes, social marketing campaigns, and efforts to improve policies, systems, and the environment of communities.
- USDA Food and Nutrition Service determines national policies and procedures, provides program monitoring and administrative oversight, facilitates resource sharing, and delivers technical assistance for SNAP-Ed.
FIM Opportunities
Food Is Medicine interventions are often paired with a nutrition education component. Food Is Medicine program implementers may want to partner with SNAP-Ed programs in their community.
