Primary care clinics can help low-income families receive nutritional support benefits

A research team designed a standardized process for helping low-income families navigate applications for federal nutrition support programs. Within a brief tablet-based nutrition screener completed at pediatric primary care visits, families were asked if they would like help applying for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. If they did, clinic staff followed up by telephone with application assistance. One limitation of this innovation is that some families were not able to be reached by telephone.

Connecting Families to Benefit Programs Through a Standardized Nutrition Screener

Aditi Vasan, MD, MSHP, et al

Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

The Possibilities Project and Clinical Futures, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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