Helpful Links

Here are links to a variety of state and federal programs that also provide assistance.

  • Food Stamp Program
    The SNAP Food Stamp Program provides benefits to low-income people that they can use to buy food to improve their diets. Food stamp recipients spend their benefits (in the form of paper coupons or electronic benefits on debit cards) to buy eligible food in authorized retail food stores.
  • National School Lunch Program
    The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program that provides free and reduced-cost lunches to eligible schoolchildren nationwide.
  • School Breakfast Program
    The School Breakfast Program is a federal entitlement program that provides states with cash assistance in providing free and reduced-cost breakfasts to eligible schoolchildren nationwide. The program is operated in nearly 80,000 public and non-profit private schools and residential child care facilities.
  • Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
    The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program is a special nutrition program that provides supplemental foods, nutrition counseling, and access to health services to low-income women, infants, and children under the age of five.
  • Community Kitchen
    Provides free warm & cold nutritious meals on a carryout basis only and is limited to one per person. No fees or eligibility requirements. Meals include a main entrée, two side dishes, and a beverage.
  • Medicaid
    Medicaid is a federally-funded program which provides medical assistance for certain individuals and families with low incomes and resources. Medicaid is the largest program providing medical and health-related services to America’s poorest people.
  • Medicare
    Medicare, the nation’s largest health insurance program, covers nearly 40 million Americans. It is a health insurance program for people 65 years of age and older, some disabled people under 65 years of age, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure treated with dialysis or a transplant).
  • State Children’s Health Insurance Program
    The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), also known as Hoosier Healthwise, provides free or low-cost health insurance to children who do not qualify for Medicaid coverage, but whose families cannot afford private health insurance. Different states have different eligibility rules, but in general, uninsured children 18 years old and younger whose families earn up to $34,100 a year (for a family of four) are eligible.
  • HealthNet Bloomington Health Center
    Not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation providing primary care health services to the medically underserved.
  • Indiana Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) 
    Indiana health insurance program for adults who qualify
  • HoosierRX
    HoosierRx is Indiana’s prescription medication program for low-income seniors. Any eligible senior enrolled in the program will receive a HoosierRx Prescription medication card to use at the pharmacy to receive up to 75 percent off the cost of their medications.
  • RX For Indiana: Partnership for Prescription Assistance Program (PPA): Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) programs bring together America’s pharmaceutical companies, doctors, or their health care providers, a patient advocacy organization, and community groups to help qualifying patients who lack prescription coverage get the medications they need through public or private programs. Rx for Indiana is a PPA program that connects qualifying, low-income Hoosiers with discount prescription medicines, direct from the pharmaceutical manufacturer. You can access the Indiana PPA program, Rx for Indiana, by calling toll-free, (888) 477-2669.
  • Head Start
    Head Start and Early Head Start are national programs that provide comprehensive developmental services for low income children from birth to age five, as well as social services for their families. Use this map to find local programs.
  • National School Lunch Program
    The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program that provides free and reduced-cost lunches to eligible schoolchildren nationwide.
  • School Breakfast Program
    The School Breakfast Program is a federal entitlement program that provides states with cash assistance in providing free and reduced-cost breakfasts to eligible schoolchildren nationwide. The program is operated in nearly 80,000 public and non-profit private schools and residential child care facilities.
  • Boys & Girls Club of Ellettsville
    Wording could say: Provides affordable After-school care for children 6yrs-18yrs. Services the Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corporation and Seven Oaks Classical School.