SNAP outreach event in Glasgow to help spread resource awareness

BARREN COUNTY, Ky. – If you’re looking for help putting food on the table, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program can provide relief.

There will be a SNAP outreach event in Glasgow on April 14 at 10 a.m.

Eighty-one percent of SNAP recipients are kids, seniors or people with disabilities.

Locally, Feeding America Kentucky’s Heartland uses donations and volunteers to support the most vulnerable in the community.

SNAP is one of the top anti-hunger programs in the United States that gives communities access to resources that help families.

Through donations and volunteers, Feeding America Kentucky’s Heartland is able to provide relief to the most vulnerable.

Manda Barger, the marketing and communications manager at Feeding America Kentucky’s Heartland, says, “We’re working on some research that we’ll be putting out in the next few months of a part that has shown there is still a lack of knowledge about the resources available for families, including whether or not they can apply for SNAP. And that is a key factor when we have one in six neighbors in Kentucky’s heartland fighting food insecurity.”

Tackling this issue is not accomplished with only one group; it takes a village.

Barger says, “It takes the entire community for us to address acute insecurity in our region. And so with conversations with families at our agency partners or with our snap specialists that we have here in our office, it’s always been a relief because let’s be honest with all of us are facing so many hard times in various ways.”