Goldenrod Hills Community Action serves an income-eligible population in a 14-county area of Northeast Nebraska, including the counties of Antelope, Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Knox, Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Thurston, Washington and Wayne.
Food insufficient elderly have consistently lower mean intakes of 19 nutrients, significantly so for 12
nutrients, including energy, protein, carbohydrate, saturated fat, riboflavin, magnesium and zinc, iron,
vitamins B-6 & B12 and niacin.
Food insecure elderly persons are 2.33 times more likely to report fair/poor health status and had higher
nutrition risks.
Nearly 3 million seniors receive emergency food assistance each year.
Nearly 29 percent of seniors have had, at some point, to choose between foods and paying for medical
care; 31 percent have had to choose between food and paying for heat and/or utilities.
Numerous studies have confirmed a negative, consistent association between food insecurity and
nutritional and health status of elderly.
Services:
CSFP is a USDA program which provides foods purchased and distributed by the USDA to: Infants up to the twelfth month of age.
Children from age one up to the sixth birthday.
Women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, and/or who have had a baby within the last year. Seniors who are sixty and over.
What will be received in food package?
Infants:
Iron Fortified Formula, after four months of age they also may receive rice cereal and juice.
Children, Women and Seniors:
Milk - Evaporated and non fat dry
Fruits and Vegetables - canned fruits and vegetables, bottled juice
Cereal
Canned meats and peanut butter
Cheese
List of Locations:
1405 Riverside Blvd.
Norfolk, NE
1119 Ave E
Wisner, NE
2120 Dakota Ave
South Sioux City, NE
808 Chase St.
Creighton, NE
Eligibility & Application:
To be eligible for the CSF Program all applicants must reside within the state where CSFP is operating. They must meet the income guidelines under existing federal regulations. To be eligible for benefits the applicant must be either pregnant, post partum, or a breast-feeding woman, a infant or child up to the age of six, who is vulnerable to malnutrition, or elderly (60 years or older.) Persons applying for the program must bring documented proof of income, residence, and age. Nutrition education is offered as part of the program, with special emphasis on the nutritional needs of the individual.
