Food Assistance: Nationwide Resources Whether you need emergency food supplies or monthly assistance, there are food assistance resources to connect you and your family to healthy food. Feeding America’s food banks can provide free food to your family or SNAP, the Federal food stamp program, can provide monthly food assistance. This site has programs that work for you and your family.

 
Feeding America
Find a food bank in your area
http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the federal Food Stamp Program. The new name reflects the changes made to meet the needs of our clients, including a focus on nutrition and an increase in benefit amounts.  SNAP is the federal name for the program. State programs may have different names.
Click here to learn more.

Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
WIC provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who may be at nutritional risk.
Click here to learn more.

Nutrition Assistance Programs
FNS provides children and low-income individuals access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education. We help nearly one in four people. Check out our programs to see if we can help you or your family.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/

Emergency Food Assistance Program
TEFAP is a Federal program that helps supplement the diets of low-income needy individuals, including elderly people, by providing them with emergency food and nutrition assistance. 
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/programs/tefap/

Commodity Supplemental Food Programs
The Commodity Supplemental Food Programs (CSFP) is a Federally funded program, which works to improve the health of low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, other new mothers up to one year postpartum, infants, children up to age six, and elderly people at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA commodity foods.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/programs/csfp/default.htm

For other federal food assistance programs and nutritional information, click here

Let’s Move!
Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Everyone has a role to play in reducing childhood obesity, including parents, elected officials from all levels of government, schools, health care professionals, faith-based and community-based organizations, and private sector companies. Your involvement is key to ensuring a healthy future for our children.
http://www.letsmove.gov/