FROM SOPHE NATIONAL:

SNAP for U: Identifying Strategies to Support College Students with SNAP Education and Outreach

Includes a Live Web Event on 09/04/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

As higher education institutions continue to aim towards diversifying their representative students, this translates into increased rates of first generation, low-income, minority, and international students in need of food assistance support. Despite the fact that federal food assistance programs like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are in place to help meet these needs in the United States, college students are experiencing significant barriers and subsequently low enrollment rates in SNAP yet experience high food insecurity. This session will explore these barriers further through the perspective of three stakeholder groups [college students, college administrators, and state Nutrition Program Associates (NPAs)]. Pertinent findings from a series of research studies exploring SNAP outreach and enrollment barriers, facilitators, and program implementation strategies among a variety of higher education institution types (e.g. public universities, community colleges) will be described and research driven recommendations will be provided to address this public health issue.

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Identify barriers and facilitators to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) outreach and enrollment programs targeting college students.

2. Describe 2 program implementation strategies that could support Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) outreach and enrollment programs targeting college students.

HESPA II Competencies:

1.3.3 Identify the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental factors that impact the health and/or learning processes of the priority population(s)

1.4.4 Develop recommendations based on findings.

Application for CHES® (entry-level)/MCHES® (advanced-level) Category I continuing education contact hours (CECH) is pending. The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. has approved SOPHE and its chapters as designated multiple-event providers of CECHs in health education. SOPHE is a provider of Certified in Public Health (CPH) Renewal Credits. An application is pending to award CPH Renewal credits on behalf of the National Board of Public Health Examiners.

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