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• Provides supplemental nutrition, food, and nutrition education.

• Provides trained peer counselors to assist WIC mothers with breastfeeding questions through classes, home visits, support, education and information.

Provides nutrition assessments and education, healthy foods, breastfeeding support and counseling, and referrals to other community agencies.

CFH assist families by providing free healthy food and services to low-income women and their children, including nutrition counseling, breastfeeding support, health education, and referrals to other programs and services.

NOEP Services provide assistance with completing the Food Stamp application and in facilitating the process.

Provides basic food for pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age 5. Eligible participants receive a food benefit card to purchase nutritious foods such as milk, eggs, cheese, whole grains, fruits and vegetables, cereal, peanut butter, and baby formula. Also offers nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and community referrals.

NYS Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) issues monthly electronic benefits that can be used like cash at authorized retail food stores. Eligibility and benefit levels are based on household size, income, assets and other factors.Applicants can apply for SNAP benefits online at myBenefits.ny.gov or at their local department of social services.

Provides one-on-one screening and application assistance to connect individuals to SNAP benefits.

Targeted outreach, assistance, and facilitated enrollment for adults who may qualify for SNAP. Also available to assist in the recertification process for SNAP.

Offers help in emergencies with such basic needs as food, prescriptions, housing, and heat. When funding is available, provides FEMA assistance for one month of rent or mortgage payments as long as the tenant or owner can demonstrate the ability to make future payments on their own; funding currently unavailable. Utility assistance is not available through these funds. Also offers a parenting program.

Affiliated family health center through the Suffolk County Department of Health Services. Call for all services offered.

Offers supplemental foods such as milk, formula, and cereal to income eligible pregnant women and to children up to age five. Nutrition and health screening, nutrition education, breastfeeding education and support, and referrals to other support services are also provided to participants.

Provides temporary benefits and services to income eligible individuals and families with the aim of helping them become self-sufficient. Services include Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) or Family Assistance, Safety Net Assistance (for single individuals or childless couples), and food stamp benefits. Child care subsidies are available to low income families to enable them to afford child care and continue to work. May use a registered or informal provider or a relative.

SNAP benefits (formerly known as Food Stamps) supplement low income households in order to reduce hunger and malnutrition.

Offers individuals assistance to apply for HEAP benefits.

Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.

Social Services promotes self-sufficiency by providing financial and social services to eligible County residents.Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) are SNAP recipients aged 18-64 who are able to work and don't have a dependent child in their household. They can only receive SNAP benefits for a limited time (3 months in a 36-month period) unless they meet certain work requirements or have an exemption. These work requirements generally involve working or participating in a work program for at least 20 hours per week (80 hours per month). There have been a lot of "skimming" problems with EBT cards - it is recommended that people lock their cards if they are not using them and unlock when they go to use them.Below is the link to the EBT Skimming Scam - there is a way to lock EBT cards and this link lets clients know how to do it.EBT Scam Alert | OTDA

Facilitates enrollment of eligible residents into the Food Stamp/SNAP program, offers community education, confidential prescreening, assistance with applications, and answering various questions about the Food Stamp/SNAP process.

Administers: public assistance Medicaid Food Stamps (SNAP) emergency assistance HEAP day care and employment services to help individuals become self sufficientCode Blue Housing Information- Starting on 11/3/2023 if the temperature or wind chill falls below 32 degrees, Cortland has opened two warming centersGrace & Holy Spirit Church, 13 Court St, M-F 4:30pm-8pm, Sat and Sun 8am-8pmThe Salvation Army, 138 S Main St back entrance, M-Sunday 8pm-8am

Provides one-on-one screening and application assistance to connect residents of Franklin and St. Lawrence counties to SNAP benefits.

WIC is a supplemental food and nutrition program for pregnant women (or teens), children up to 5 years old, mothers of babies up to 6 months old, and breastfeeding mothers of babies up to 12 months old.

Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.

Provides basic food for pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age 5. Eligible participants receive a food benefit card to purchase nutritious foods such as milk, eggs, cheese, whole grains, fruits and vegetables, cereal, peanut butter, and baby formula. Also offers nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and community referrals.

Provides a supplemental food/nutrition program for low income women who are pregnant, new mothers or have children under 5 years which offers nutrition/health education, and referrals for other health care services, including additional funds to purchase healthy foods in WIC-approved food markets.

Provides breastfeeding support, nutrition counseling, and healthcare referrals. Offers the eWIC program, which helps participants afford healthy food for babies.