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Target Audience: SNAP Recipients & Eligibles
Nutrition education efforts target SNAP recipients/eligibles. Eligibility as a member of the target audience can be determined in the following ways:
Category 1: Certified Eligibles
SNAP participants
- Identified by eligibility workers, SNAP offices, and other outreach agencies
Category 2: Likely Eligibles
Eligible but not currently participating in SNAP
- Identified by income-based proxy – gross income levels at or below 130% federal poverty level (or via programs such as WIC and Head Start with like income guidelines)
- Exclusions include incarcerated adults and college/university students
- Identified by location-based proxy- at food banks, food pantries, soup kitchens, commodity warehouses, public housing, and SNAP/TANF job readiness programs
Category 3: Potentially Eligible By Site/Location
Potentially eligible by location frequented by low-income audiences
- Location with 50% or more persons having incomes at or below 185% of poverty (such as a school with 50% or more students receiving free or reduced meals)
- Schools with 50% or more free/reduced meal enrollment (no rounding up) based on the current school year’s or the previous school year’s DPI data. SY 11-12 Free and Reduced Data by Site
Note: If the make-up of a school district has changed since the previous year, only the current school year’s data can be honored.
- Retail grocery store with average monthly levels of $50,000 in SNAP benefit redemptions
Each year North Dakota FNP requests a waiver for potential Category 3 sites. Waiver approval allows North Dakota FNP to involve other low income individuals in addition to SNAP participants.
At other sites, additional documentation, either a signed Documentation of Audience Eligibility or completed Surveys of Audience Eligibility, needs to be obtained to confirm eligibility. To assist in the determination of FNP audience eligibility and any additional documentation required, refer to FNP Audience Eligibility Decision Tree.
