Nutrition
Council Resources
- Nutrition and Diabetes Guide: How Medical Nutrition Therapy Can Improve Diabetes Management (2019) | National Health Care for the Homeless Council
- Nutrition and Diabetes: How Medical Nutrition Therapy Can Improve Diabetes Management (February 2019) | National Health Care for the Homeless Council
- Nutrition and Diabetes: Special Considerations for Clients who Are Unstably Housed (November 2017) | National Health Care for the Homeless Council
- Promoting Healthy Habits: Innovative Nutrition Education & Physical Activity Programs for Homeless Children & Families (2013) | Hosted by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council
- No Place at the Table: Hunger and Homelessness (2011) | Healing Hands, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Programs, Organizations & Resources
- Hunger and homelessness survey: A status report on hunger and homelessness in America’s cities (2016) | United States Conference of Mayors
- Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs
- Child and Adult Care Food Program
- Food Assistance for Disaster Relief
- School Meals, including Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, and Special Milk Program.
- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program, Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program
- Summer Food Service Program
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Federal Food Distribution Programs
- Commodity Processing
- Commodity Supplemental Food Program
- Nutrition Services Incentive Program
- Schools/Child Nutrition Commodity Programs
- Emergency Food Assistance Program
- Hunger and Food Security
- Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
- Feeding America
- Food Research and Action Center
- Migrant Clinicians Network | Patient Education Materials in English and Spanish
- Nutritional Assessment of Free Meal Programs in San Francisco (2013) | CDC study explaining how soup kitchen meals are more fattening than nutritious.
- Feeding America’s Healthy Food Bank Hub. This website provides many education tools and resources related to healthy food distribution and nutrition education. The Hub is a product of Feeding America’s collaborative with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the National Dairy Council to promote health while fighting hunger.
- EatFresh: Tasty Recipes on Your Budget from the San Francisco County Human Services Agency offers SNAP participants and other low-income families resources with budget-friendly nutrition information. It has many great recipes, tips for healthy living, and much more.
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