Oregon Head Start

The Head Start program (for children ages 3-5) and Early Head Start program (for pregnant women, infants, and toddlers) promote school readiness for children in low-income families by providing comprehensive educational, health, nutritional, and...read more

Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid/SCHIP)

Oregon Health Plan program pays for health care and other service needs of its clients. To get this help, individuals must meet certain income and asset requirements and other non-financial eligibility requirements such as residency and...read more

Oregon Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP)

The Oregon Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) is a Federally funded program through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. LIEAP is an assistance program designed to help low income households with home heating costs. read more

Oregon School Breakfast and Lunch Program

The School Breakfast Program provides funding that makes it possible for schools to offer a nutritious breakfast to students each day. Similarly, the goal of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is to protect the health and well-being of the...read more

Oregon Special Milk Program

The Special Milk Program provides milk to children in schools, childcare institutions and eligible camps that do not participate in other Federal child nutrition meal service programs. The program reimburses schools and institutions for the milk...read more

Oregon Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

WIC is a public health nutrition program designed to improve health outcomes and influence lifetime nutrition and health behaviors in a targeted, at-risk population. In Oregon, about 100,000 women, infants, and children benefit from the WIC Program...read more

Oregon State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

SCHIP allows Oregon to offer health insurance for eligible children, up to age 19, who are not already insured. read more

Oregon Summer Food Service

The Oregon Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides nutritious meals to children who would normally receive free or reduced price meals when school is in session. SFSP helps children to maintain a nutritious diet and helps their families to...read more

Oregon Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps supplement food budgets for low-income working families and individuals, people on public assistance, seniors and people with disabilities. During the 2001-2003 biennium, approximately 176,700...read more

Oregon Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides cash assistance to low income families with children while they strive to become self-sufficient. The goal of the program is to reduce the number of families living in poverty,...read more