Nutrition Services

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Congregate Nutrition Services provides meals and related services in a variety of community settings, such as senior centers and churches. In addition to a healthy meal, congregate meals offer participants an opportunity for social interaction and access to health promotion programs, nutrition education and counseling, volunteer activities, and more, all of which contribute to participants' overall health and well- Home-Delivered Nutrition Services provides in-home meals and related services to older adults who are unable to participate in the congregate program due to illness, disability, or geographic isolation. Home- delivered meals are often the first in-home service that an older adult receives and are often the primary access point for other home and community-based services. In addition to providing a meal, this service helps older adults combat isolation and maintain contact with the community. Home-delivered meals also are provided to spousal caregivers, which helps maintain their own health and well-being and their ability Each formula grant for congregate nutrition services and home-delivered nutrition services is allocated based on the state or territory's share of the U.S. population that is age 60 or over. The grants are effectively leveraged to generate additional funding. On average, every dollar provided to states and territories through this program is matched by four dollars in funding from state and local sources. Administration for Children, Families, and Communities Page 130 A third component of the Nutrition Services program, the Nutrition Services Incentive Program, provides a secondary source of funding specifically to purchase domestically produced food for meals served through congregate and home-delivered meals programs. Grant awards are based on the number of meals served in the prior year. Grantees can elect to receive part or all their grants as commodities from the U.S. Department of Agriculture if they determine that doing so will enable them to better meet the needs of In FY 2023, an estimated 237.7 million meals were provided to older adults across the nation; those meals represented half - or more - of a person's daily food intake for more than 50 percent of the people receiving them. Of that total, an estimated 57 million were served in congregate settings, where participants also benefitted from social engagement and access to a range of services - such as health screenings - that collectively contribute to their improved health and wellbeing. An estimated 180.7 million meals were delivered to homes. Funding for the program - net of any authorized changes such as transfers or reprogramming - for 10 For FY 2025, 56 Congregate Nutrition Programs grants were made with an average of $9,903,470 and a $11,098,380. For FY 2026, it is estimated that 56 Congregate Nutrition Programs grants will be made Nutrition Services Incentive Program grants will be made with an average of roughly $1,868,373 and a The FY 2027 request for the Nutrition Services program is $1.1 billion, the same as the FY 2026 level. For FY 2027, it is estimated that 56 Congregate Nutrition Programs grants will be made with an average Administration for Children, Families, and Communities Page 131 Services Incentive Program grants will be made with an average of roughly $1,868,373 and a range of Result / Target for Target Target Target 2.9d Maintain at 85% or higher the Recent Result / +/-FY 2026 percentage of home delivered meal clients (Summary of Result) 89% 89% Target Output G: Number of Home-Delivered FY 2023: 180.7 M 180.7 M 180.7 M Projection Output H: Number of Congregate meals Outputs G & H: Total Number of Meals 237.7 M 237.7 M Maintain Administration for Children, Families, and Communities Page 132

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