{"id":3049,"date":"2021-02-23T13:12:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2021-02-26T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T18:02:11","slug":"increasing-food-security-and-health-equity-among-low-income-older-adults-in-rhode-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/increasing-food-security-and-health-equity-among-low-income-older-adults-in-rhode-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing food security and health equity among low-income older adults in Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The URI Feinstein Center for a Hunger-Free America was awarded a two-year grant for $120,000 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuftshealthplanfoundation.org\">Tufts Health Plan Foundation<\/a> to strengthen food security among R.I.\u2019s older adults with low-income by improving access to, use of, and retention in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to improve the system for older people with low-income to apply and enroll in the SNAP, often the first line of defense against hunger and food insecurity.&nbsp; This project will advance health equity by building collaborations between the Department of Human Services (DHS) and its partners to more effectively and efficiently serve older people. &nbsp;Hunger Center staff will train, educate and provide technical assistance to community agency staff working with older adults and create a team of staff and older adults to work with policymakers on increasing access to SNAP.&nbsp; Identified strategies include simplifying overly long applications, reducing burdensome documentation requirements, and eliminating technology barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Tufts Health Plan Foundation is the only regional funder exclusively focused on healthy aging. This is one of 10 new community investments totaling more than $1.325 reflecting the Foundation\u2019s commitment to policies and practices that advance healthy aging. The new grants engage older people in systems-level change to remove barriers responsible for inequities in communities across the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The URI Feinstein Center for a Hunger-Free America was awarded a two-year grant for $120,000 from Tufts Health Plan Foundation to strengthen food security among R.I.\u2019s older adults with low-income by improving access to, use of, and retention in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to improve the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4168,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previous-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/endhunger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}