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CSFP - The Commodity Supplemental Food Program

What is the Commodity Supplemental Food Program?
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program was created to provide an opportunity for low-income persons who are especially vulnerable to malnutrition to receive specified nutritional foods that will provide them with a more adequate diet and help them achieve good health.

CSFP works to improve the health of low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, other new mothers up to one year postpartum, infants, children up to age six, and elderly people at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA commodity foods. It provides food and administrative funds to States to supplement the diets of these groups.

Program Administration
The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers CSFP through grants to individual States. In Colorado, the program is administered by the Colorado Department of Human Services, Food Distribution Programs.

Income Guidelines
You are eligible to receive Commodity Supplemental Foods if your monthly inome meets the guidelines shown below.

CSFP Monthly Income Guidelines effective March 30th, 2009

Poverty Guideline		WIC	Seniors
Household Size	Annual Income	185% of Poverty	130% of Poverty
1	$10,830	$1,604	$1,174
2	14,570	2,159	1,579
3	18,310	2,714	1,984
4	22,050	3,269	2,389
For each additional family member, add
	$3,740	$555	$406

Colorado CSFP Agencies
The names and locations of the local agencies that are responsible for the certification of individuals eligible for CSFP and for distribution of CSFP commodities are listed below.

Conejos County
Conejos County Public Health and Nursing Service
P.O. Box 78
19023 State Hwy 285 South
La Jara, CO 81140

Phone 719.274.4307

Costilla County
Costilla County Nursing Service
P. O. Box 99
San Luis, CO 81152

Phone 719.672.3323

Denver County
Food Bank of the Rockies
10975 E. 47th Avenue
Denver, CO 80239

Phone 303.375.8081

Mesa County
Mesa County Supplemental Foods
486 MorningGlory Lane - Unit A
Grand Junction, CO 81505

Phone 970.241.3651

Pueblo County
Pueblo County Department of Housing & Human Services
2631 E. 4th Street
Pueblo, CO 81001

Phone 719.583.6199

Rio Grande County
Tri County Senior Citizens & Housing, Inc.
Changing Needs Food Program
311 Washington Street
Monte Vista, CO 81144

Phone 719.852.5778

Weld County
Weld County Food Bank
1108 H Street
Greeley, CO 80631

Phone 970.356.2199

Useful Links to CSFP Web Sites
Link	Comments
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/programs /csfp/pfs-csfp.pdf	CSFP Program Fact Sheet and Frequently-Asked-Questions
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/programs /csfp /csfp_rptspubs.htm	CSFP Publications