Community Resources & Benefits

It takes more than food banking to end hunger. To help our neighbors live full, healthy lives, benefits like food assistance are critical tools for economic mobility and weathering tough times. The Feeding Texas Community Resources Team is dedicated to helping Texans improve their overall economic security through benefits and assistance programs that can tackle the causes of hunger, like poverty and inadequate food access.

Application Assistance

In partnership with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), many food banks in the Feeding Texas network offer application assistance and case management to the counties in their service area.

Our network helps Texans apply for programs like SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, TANF, and CHIP. Our Community Resources Team helps our food banks build and reinforce capacity for these benefits programs by providing localized quality assurance, technical assistance, program evaluation, and comprehensive training.

Helping Texans get SNAP is a major focus for our network as it’s our largest and most effective tool in the fight against hunger. SNAP helps millions of families around the nation put food on the table by giving them monthly benefits they can use to buy groceries.

In 2022, SNAP helped over 3.44 million Texans put food on the table during tough times. It’s also a cost-effective way to tackle hunger – for every meal that a food bank puts on the table, SNAP provides nine. If you’re interested in applying for benefits programs like SNAP, you can learn more here.

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