The SNAP-Education Annual Plan is submitted each year by the State Agency, the Indiana Department of Health, and the Implementing Agency, Purdue University Nutrition Education Program.
The plan highlights the state goals, objectives, program outline, and evaluation procedures. It is then submitted to the Federal Nutrition Service (FNS) in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). With the plan, the state, implementing agency, and related partners coordinate and align efforts in alignment with the goals. States can choose to submit either a 1-year or a 3-year plan. Indiana is currently in the beginning of their 1-year plan.
There are currently 7 state-level priorities related to SNAP-Education in Indiana for the 2025 fiscal year.
Priority 1
Increase efforts to support Food as Medicine initiatives.
Improve health behaviors
Improve policies, systems, or environments of settings
Improve multisector outcomes
Expand or strengthen coordination and collaboration with other programs
Collaborate with multiple sectors
Strengthen workforce capacity
Develop/strengthen innovations in programming
Priority 2
Increase SNAP-Ed support for PSE initiatives that are focused on chest/breastfeeding and access to human milk for priority communities.
Improve health behaviors
Improve policies, systems, or environments of settings
Improve SNAP-Ed access
Improve the appropriateness of SNAP-Ed programming
Expand or strengthen coordination and collaboration with other programs
Strengthen workforce capacity
Develop/strengthen innovations in programming
Priority 3
Delivery of Indiana SNAP-Ed will be equitable and culturally responsive to historically underserved populations and communities.
Strengthen workforce capacity
Develop/strengthen innovations in programming
Improve SNAP-Ed access
Improve the appropriateness of SNAP-Ed programming
Priority 4
Prioritize and increase multi-level program implementation, with an emphasis on PSE initiatives. All Direct Education classes should have some connection to one or more PSE initiative(s).
Improve health behaviors
Improve policies, systems, or environments of settings
Expand or strengthen coordination and collaboration with other programs
Collaborate with multiple sectors
Develop/strengthen innovations in programming
Priority 5
Authentically engage priority communities to inform strategic development and implementation of SNAP-Ed initiatives.
Develop/strengthen innovations in programming
Improve SNAP-Ed access
Improve the appropriateness of SNAP-Ed programming
Expand or strengthen coordination and collaboration with other programs
Priority 6
Increase statewide capacity to support equitable implementation of PSE work for SNAP-Ed.
Improve policies, systems, or environments of settings
Improve multisector outcomes
Improve SNAP-Ed access
Expand or strengthen coordination and collaboration with other programs
Collaborate with multiple sectors
Strengthen workforce capacity
Priority 7
SNAP-Ed service delivery (both DE and PSE) will have a strategic geographic alignment with the highest need and most underserved areas of the state.
Improve policies, systems, or environments of settings
Improve SNAP-Ed access
Improve the appropriateness of SNAP-Ed programming
For questions, please contact:
Naima Gardner, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity Director
Indiana Department of Health
ngardner1@health.in.gov
Blake Connolly, Assistant Director
Purdue University Extension Nutrition Education Program
baconnol@purdue.edu
Wanda Stevens, Assistant Director
Purdue University Extension Nutrition Education Program
wstevens@purdue.edu