Write a three- to five -page (double-spaced) response to the exercise.
• Describe the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) including program goal, historical background, and eligibility criteria.
• Collect the data related to hunger, poverty, SNAP participation, and the demographic information related to SNAP.
• Consider racism and other forms of oppression that perpetuate poverty.
• Discuss the experience of living on the SNAP budget. What were the challenges? Did the exercise surprise you in anyway? What resources make living on SNAP less challenging? What increases the challenge?
• Include a section on whether your feelings about the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) have changed, and why you feel a change in perceptions, attitudes, or feelings about food stamps did or did not occur.
• Discuss the ways social workers can advocate for clients in obtaining adequate food.
• Post on the Discussion Board every day of the Challenge and reply to at least 2 student posts.
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