The list below includes resources in Connecticut that can provide meals and food to households during the COVID-19 pandemic:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Determine SNAP eligibility by contacting the End Hunger Connecticut! (EHC!) SNAP hotline at 866-974-7627. EHC! also has a simple prescreener tool to determine SNAP eligibility.
Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) Program and How to Use the P-EBT Card.
For questions regarding the P-EBT Program visit www.ct.gov/snap. Families may also call 1-855-626-6632 for more detailed information.
Food Pantries/Food Donation Programs (211 of Connecticut, United Way): Enter your town/city to search for nearby food pantries.
Soup Kitchens (211 of Connecticut, United Way): Enter your town/city to search for nearby soup kitchens.
Food & Nutrition Resources (211 of Connecticut, United Way): Information on home-delivered meals for homebound individuals, food distribution through Mobile Foodshare and Connecticut Food Bank, school meals, benefit programs, and town social service departments.
The Child Health and Development Institute of CT has
organized a CT Immunization Work Group. The Work Group is working to partner
with summer meal sponsors to help inform parents about, and possibly provide
access to, mobile immunization clinics. For more information visit the Child Health and Development Institute of CT website.