June 20, 2024
LGBTQIA+ individuals and families experience higher rates of poverty and hunger, especially for some community members, including transgender and LGBTQIA+ people of color.
By strengthening access to federal nutrition programs, anti-hunger activists can play a key role in addressing the food and economic insecurity that is found at disproportionately higher rates among LGBTQIA+ individuals and families.
Advocacy organizations can connect low-income LGBTQIA+ individuals and families to federal nutrition programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), school and out-of-school programs, and home-delivered and congregate meal programs that are proven to address hunger, improve nutrition, health, and well-being, and stimulate economic activity.
resources for LGBTQIA+ community
This Pride Month, use ofS resources from of Center for Food Research and Action (FRAC) and the National Lesbian Rights Centers (NCLR) that providee information Federal Government nutrition Helpful Programs LGBTQIA+ people and their families Food, food, and advantage Buying food:
- FRAC-NCLR Fact Sheet key Recommendations Access to LGBTQ nutrition programsIA+ Household. Resourcese How the providercano laverage Programs that provide healthy meals to LGBTQ people, such as summer meal programsIA+ The young people they serve.
- Federal Nutrition Programs and Emergency Food Referral Schedules s It includes information about operations, qualifications, how to learn more and where to apply, and an opportunity to add customized information about local resources your organization has available in your community.
