Welcome CalFresh Outreach Partners

Keeping You in the Know, for CFO!

Have a Question? Get it Answered by the CFO Resource Hub Team

Our CalFresh Outreach (CFO) Resource Hub is here to help with your CalFresh Food questions. The CFO Resource Hub is available to all California College Campus staff and Far North Partners providing CalFresh Food application assistance.

P-EBT Updates

P-EBT 3.0 is currently in the works and will be dispersed to eligible families this year! With P-EBT 3.0 still being in the planning stages, there still aren't many details. Be on the lookout for more P-EBT updates in next quarter's newsletter!
 

Policy/Eligibility Updates

Effective March 1, 2022, households where all adult members are either 60 years or older and/or have a disability will no longer have to complete a SAR 7 at the 12th and 24th month of their 36-month certification period. To read the full ACL, follow the link to the full article here.

Emergency Allotments are approved on a month-to-month basis. These benefits will be available on April 17, 2022.

To read the full ACWDL, please follow the link to the full article here.
 

Prepopulated SAR 7 Eligibility Report: CDSS is currently working with stakeholders to develop a prepopulated SAR 7. More information regarding this will be coming out in a future ACL. To learn more about this development, visit this link. 

The following temporary waivers have been extended to June 30, 2022:

* Waiver of initial and recertification interviews (if certain criteria have been met)
* Waiver of recording requirement for telephonic signatures at initial application and recertification (if certain criteria have been met)

To check out the full ACWDL, click this link.
 

Nice to Know

CSU, Chico's Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) has released additional exploratory research on how food insecurity impacts academic performance and overall student wellbeing.  This update represents an expansion of CHC's basic needs’ student success survey to three other campuses.

The Chico State Basic Needs Pilot Study Website (link)  is already being used to understand the state of food insecurity on our campuses and is a great place for researchers to obtain baseline data and to start research collaboration conversations with CHC about these topics.

The data collection and analysis represent a collaboration between graduate students, staff, and faculty from the CSU, Chico Center for Healthy Communities, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, and the Department of Political Science.

The reporting website development was led by Chico State undergraduate statistics major and CSC2 student researcher Derek Helms.
 
For more information, visit the CalFresh Website

Or

Contact the Center for Healthy Communities at Chico State at chc@csuchico.edu
 

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