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Interfaith Food Pantry Programs
Client
Choice Program
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Provides clients with emergency and supplemental food during
time of need
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Provides clients with access to a variety of food from each
food group based on family size, dietary restrictions and
personal preference
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Empowers clients to make decisions and restores integrity to
the process of receiving food
  
Healthy
Choices Program
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Provides
nutrition counseling for prevention and/or management of
diet related illnesses
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Provides
access to a greater variety of nutritious foods that may not
typically be available at food pantries (i.e., fresh dairy,
lean proteins, low sodium options, gluten free foods and
fresh fruits and vegetables)
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Increases
fresh produce by working with communities and groups to set
up gardens for IFP.
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Educates
client about how to grow their own food in limited space.
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Instructs
clients on how to prepare available foods in a nutritious
manner
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Offers a
series of health and nutrition related workshops for
children of clients
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Provides
screening for potential health risks, e.g., diabetes,
hypertension, obesity and osteoporosis
  
Working
Families Access Program
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Provides
low-income working families access after work on Saturdays,
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
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Provides
them with a variety of resources such as NJ Family Health
Care, EITC, and low cost child care options.
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Provides
access to programs usually unavailable in the evening such
as screening for government programs (food stamps and
medicare) and opportunities to meet with counselors from
programs such as NJ Family Health Care.
Home
Delivery Program
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Works to
enable home-bound elderly, disabled and medical fragile
clients to remain living independently by pairing them with
volunteers who bring the food into their homes.
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Attempts
to meet dietary restrictions related to their medical needs
wherever possible.
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Allows
opportunity for community involvement for those who are not
available to volunteer during daytime hours.
Family
Self-Sufficiency Program
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Enables
easy referral to services such as medical and behavioral
health care, eyeglasses, furniture, home energy assistance
programs, EITC, low cost child care options, prescription
assistance programs, furniture and clothing referral
resources.
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Provides
referrals to job fairs and training programs
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Provides
workshops for low income families to explore ways to become
more financially independent. These include topics such as
budgeting, setting up bank accounts, information and
availability of other services such as tax relief advisory,
home heating assistance and other cost savings programs.
Youth
Involvement Program
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Provides
hunger-related educational and hands on sessions for civic,
scout, school and worship based youth groups through
volunteer-conducted after school activities.
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Provides
opportunities for groups to volunteer on weekends and
assists them in developing their own activities off site.
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Provides
education about local hunger issues and the IFP role in the
community via presentations to schools, scouts, civic and
worship based youth groups at their facilities.
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Allows
individual youths to volunteer on a regular or as-needed
basis.
  
Community Awareness Program
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Enables
IFP to provide public education about hunger and related
issues through printed material, presentations and various
forms of media.
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Enables
IFP to provide public education about the IFP mission, goals
and its need for community support and involvement.
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Enables
IFP to promote awareness about the program to those who may
need assistance.
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Promotes
volunteerism and advocacy through social networking.
Advocacy
Program
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Offers
opportunities for community involvement through awareness of
legislative impact on hunger and related issues.
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Offers
opportunities for families and individuals to participate in
public awareness and activism campaigns such as the food
stamp challenge, letter writing, brown bagging, etc.
Volunteer
Program
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Provides
opportunity for community involvement for individuals,
families, civic groups, houses of worship and corporations.
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Allows
members of the community to connect with their neighbors and
become part of the solution.
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Enables
IFP to be cost-effective, using donated services to expand
programs while keeping administrative cost low.
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Provides
resources to IFP through fundraising programs and
community-wide food drives.
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Promotes
advocacy and awareness through social networking.
  
Thanksgiving
and December Holidays Program
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Allows
clients to provide their families with appropriate meal for
the holidays
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Provides
opportunity for community wide involvement via food drives
and volunteer opportunities
   
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