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"Within our community education office, we have the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program- Education (SNAP-Ed), the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), and the Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) programs. Our office provides nutrition education workshops, works with community partners to help make the healthier choice the easier choice, and provides recipes, handouts, videos and other free resources for anyone to access. Our nutrition education efforts are delivered across the state, but mostly in the core cities of Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Woonsocket. Let’s learn more!
Direct Education
Throughout Rhode Island we offer nutrition education workshops. The workshops focus on culturally-relevant healthy eating and physical activity within a limited budget.
Community Partners
We work with community partners to help create sustainable policy, system and environmental (PSE) changes to complement nutrition education and support healthy behaviors.
Helpful Resources
To extend the reach and learning, our website and social media platforms provide recipes, handouts, videos and other free resources that can be accessed and shared by anyone. We provide workshops, recipes, handouts and videos in English and Spanish (and currently developing into Portuguese). SNAP-Ed
80 Washington Street
Room 300
Providence, RI 02903 EFNEP
80 Washington Street
Room 300
Providence, RI 02903
p: 401.277.5272
f: 401.277.5284
Ruthann Marchetti
EFNEP Program Manager
e: ruthann.marchetti@uri.edu
p: 401.277.5270
f: 401.277.5284
Nutrition Hotline
p: 1.877.FOOD.URI
e: nutrition@etal.uri.edu CYFAR
80 Washington Street
Room 300
Providence, RI 02903
p: 401.277.5270
f: 401.277.5284
e: Projectstride@etal.uri.edu"
Lifestyle medicine is the evidence-based practice of assisting individuals and families to adopt and sustain behaviors that can improve health and quality of life. Lifestyle Medicine focuses on six areas: physical activity, healthful eating, nutrition, stress management, sleep, and relationships.
Offering daily meals, weekly food pantry, toiletry and personal items, clothing, and support services for counseling, housing assistance, emergency telephone, transportation vouchers, and more.
Open Table of Christ United Methodist Church- Food pantry and Open Closet Thrift Shop for adult and children’s used clothing, kitchen items, and more.
RI Emergency and Supplemental Food Site Map: Use this map to find emergency and supplemental food access points near you. There are many options available, including SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) retail, meal pickup locations, grocery delivery, WIC vendors, food pantries and senior meal sites.
In 2021, more than 75 Hunger Elimination Task Force participants discussed the needs and uses for
emergency and supplemental food delivery information. This group agreed that the state needed
a resource that aggregated up-to-date information on existing emergency and supplemental food
delivery services. With 1 in 6 households in Rhode Island continuing to experience food insecurity, strengthening and investing in our food delivery infrastructures is as important as ever. This guide will be updated annually and feedback on any aspect of this resource is welcome. Please email info@rifoodcouncil.org with questions or updates to this information.
Aquidneck Community Table, or "ACT," brings together partners in our community to collectively build a healthy future, generating events and discussion to explore solutions that strengthen the island’s food system, support the local economy and expand access to fresh healthy food for everyone. Aquidneck Community Table is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit.
If you are currently experiencing homelessness or are facing homelessness in the next 14 days, please contact the Coordinated Entry System and be assessed for shelter and resources.