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What is Food Assistance?

Food Assistance serves communities and lower-income families by improving access to safe and nutritious foods. We honor our connections with agriculture and strengthen the emergency food system by providing food, funding, logistical support, and outreach to hunger relief organizations and tribes.

Hunger in Washington

Food banks, food pantries, backpack programs, home delivery, mobile food pantries and voucher programs that participate in the Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP) comprise our most comprehensive "snapshot" of Washington State's hunger relief system, and who is relying on it to put food on the table.  Learn more about hunger in Washington by reviewing statewide EFAP annual closeout reports, or learn more about the county-level need for food assistance services and how WSDA contributes each year. 

Programs and Services

WSDA offers three state-funded services: the Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP), EFAP Tribal, and the Farm to Food Pantry initiative. We also manage three federal programs: The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), and the temporary Trade Mitigation Program (TMP).  Read on to learn who's eligible for each program, how WSDA invests in hunger relief while strengthening the agricultural community, and how these programs work in tandem to get food to those in need. 

Contact Food Assistance

If you have additional questions about our programs, how they work in your community or would like to see more data or reports from previous years to understand how hunger in Washington has changed over time, please contact us. We are happy to answer your questions and help you better understand food assistance programs in our state. The team at Food Assistance sees everyone in our community as a partner in our work to fight hunger and strengthen the hunger relief system.