The goal of SNAP-Ed is to improve the likelihood that persons eligible for SNAP will have equitable access to nourishing food and safe active spaces. The SNAP-Ed program's main audience is people who receive SNAP benefits (also called EBT, Basic Food, or Food Stamps). SNAP-Ed can also work with people who do not get SNAP benefits but who are eligible to receive SNAP or who get other Federal assistance program benefits, like WIC. SNAP-Ed can also work with people who live in communities with a significant low-income population.
To read more about SNAP-Ed at DOH, please visit the Washington SNAP-Ed Providers website.
DOH provides SNAP-Ed funding to a variety of organizations throughout Washington to provide local SNAP-Ed projects.
Current SNAP-Ed program includes:
- Policy, systems, and environmental strategies where people eat, shop, live, work, learn, and play.
- Online and in-person health promotion through a variety of channels that share fruit and vegetable incentive opportunities, recipes, physical activity, and affordable ways to live a healthy lifestyle.
- Online and in-person nutrition and physical activity education for youth and adults in places where people eat, shop, live, work, learn, and play to increase the knowledge and skills about nourishing foods and physical activity.
- Partnerships with state and local organizations and coalitions to further the reach and impact of SNAP-Ed activities.
- Evaluation of local projects for progress towards positive changes in the community and for overall effectiveness.
Current DOH SNAP-Ed Funded Partners
Funding for federal fiscal years 2024-2026 (October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2026) is provided to 27 partner organizations:
- Catholic Charities of Spokane
- Common Threads Farm
- Community Action Center – Whitman County
- Educational Service District 101
- Garden-Raised Bounty (GRuB)
- Garfield County Public Health
- Grant County Public Hospital District 5 / dba Mattawa Community Medical Center
- Hands-On Personal Empowerment (HOPE) Garden Project
- Kitsap Public Health District
- Kittitas County Public Health Department
- Lewis County Health Department
- MultiCare Health System Center for Health Equity and Wellness
- Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) of Washington – Yakima County
- Public Health Seattle-King County
- San Juan County Health & Community Services
- Second Harvest Inland Northwest
- Solid Ground Washington
- Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
- Thurston County Food Bank
- Tulalip Tribes of Washington
- United General AKA Skagit County Public Hospital District No 304
- Wahkiakum County dba / Wahkiakum Health and Human Services
- Walla Walla County Department of Community Health
- Washington State Department of Agriculture
- Yakima Health District
- Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
- Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic