SNAP Resource Center

Toolkit: SNAP Helps New Yorkers Buy Food. SNAP Navigators Can Help You Apply.

SNAP Navigators, statewide partners, and community organizations can use this toolkit to promote SNAP Navigator services to families who may be eligible for SNAP. The NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance’s Nutrition Navigators program provides SNAP outreach and application assistance through SNAP Navigators based in local organizations across the state. Navigators answer eligibility questions, help people gather documents and complete applications, and connect families with other food assistance programs. Services are free and confidential.

Sample social media posts, images, and communications language—Spanish coming soon
Download sample messages and images to use on your social media channels and in other communications.

Flyer—Spanish coming soon
Flyer to help clients understand the benefits of SNAP and how SNAP Navigators can assist them.

SNAP Navigators: Email us for an editable version of this flyer with space for your own contact info.

SNAP Prescreening Guide

Screening tools

Our digital SNAP Eligibility Prescreening Guide helps those working with SNAP consumers to determine potential eligibility, estimate benefit amounts, and assist with the SNAP application process and recertification.

The guide includes:

• Eligibility rules for a variety of populations
• Details about policies and programs that facilitate SNAP access
• Budgeting information and a digital tool for estimating SNAP benefits
• Specifics about maintaining, using, and recertifying for SNAP benefits
• Information about how SNAP  during disasters and misfortunes
• Information about electronic benefit theft and how to help SNAP households protect EBT cards from skimming

SNAP and Schools

Partner with schools to connect more families to SNAP.

Partnering with Schools
New York’s Universal Free School Meal Program requires all participating schools to share information about SNAP with families. SNAP Navigators bring expertise and capacity that schools want and need as they implement SNAP outreach alongside many other competing priorities.

Visit our Partnering with Schools page for information, tools, and resources to build relationships with local school districts.

Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD)

Information and resources to help households navigate the ABAWD time limit rule.

Our ABAWD page
The ABAWD rule limits some adults to only receiving SNAP benefits for three months in a 36-month period if they are not working. Recently, New York started a new 36-month period, so some participants who lost benefits due to this rule may be eligible again. Learn more about the rule and how participants can keep or regain their benefits.

Flyer for clients

Our ABAWD Checklist
Determine if the time limit rule applies to a client, and learn ways to keep SNAP benefits.

Our SNAP Helps New Yorkers toolkit includes messaging about the NYS ABAWD time limit period reset.

Connect with SNAP Navigators Across the State (and more!)

SNAP Navigators, SNAP Technical Assistance, and NYSOTDA.

Navigator Agency List
Download a list of Nutrition Navigator agencies offering SNAP assistance across the state.

Connect with Us
Hunger Solutions New York is the SNAP technical assistance provider in NYS. Reach out with questions:

SNAP policy and budgeting: SNAPTA@HungerSolutionsNY.org
Outreach materials: Communications@HungerSolutionsNY.org