CHAMPSS (Choosing Healthy Appetizing Meal Plan Solutions for Seniors) allows those age 60 and older to choose from different entrees and eat at their convenience seven days a week at CHAMPSS locations throughout Shawnee, Jefferson, and Douglas counties. This program is for active persons who are not home bound and can go to the CHAMPSS site to eat their meals. Participants must complete an orientation and submit a registration packet to enroll in the program. Participants are also encouraged to make the suggested donation of $3.50 per meal. No one is denied a meal if they are unable to donate.
Participants say they enjoy the flexibility offered through this program and the opportunity to be around people of all ages. The CHAMPSS meal program represents the future of senior care, inter-generational and inclusive. CHAMPSS Information Flyer Link
CHAMPSS Orientation
Click the YouTube link to view the CHAMPSS Orientation Video. This video describes JAAA’s purpose, the CHAMPSS enrollment process, and how the program works.
Please contact JAAA after completing the orientation to request a registration packet.
CHAMPSS Reorder Form Link *Meals expire 12 months from when they are added.
Check your CHAMPSS Meal balance here
How to use your CHAMPSS QR Code Card
Click the YouTube link to view a short video on how to use your CHAMPSS QR Code card to get your meal balance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jICs2BokGU8 *This will work with both Apple and Android phones.
CHAMPSS LOCATIONS
Douglas County
Hy-Vee at 3504 Clinton Parkway Menu
Dillons at 4701 West 6th St. *Call 785-838-0100 for deli hours.
Dillons at 1740 Massachusetts St. *Call 785-842-2942 for deli hours.
Jefferson County
Country Harvest Apple Market 901 OAK St. -VALLEY FALLS Menu
F.W Huston Medical Center 408 Delaware St, WINCHESTER, KS
Monthly Lunch Menu – March 2025
Monthly Dinner Menu – March 2025
Shawnee County
Dillons at 21st and Fairlawn *Call 785-228-8760 for deli hours.
Dillons at 29th and California *Call 785-267-1797 for deli hours.
Dillons at 29th and Urish Rd *Call 785-228-4200 for deli hours.
Dillons at Hwy 24 & Rochester Rd *Call 785-357-2660 for deli hours.
Dillons at 10th and Gage *Call 785-228-8700 for deli hours.
Engroff Catering located at 2127 SW Westport Drive
Please Call 785-478-9290 to order your CHAMPSS Meal Menu
Hy-Vee at 2951 SW Wanamaker Menu
SKY at Billard Airport, 3600 NE Sardou, Building 4A
Millennium Café́ Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Menu
SKY at Billard Airport, 3600 NE Sardou, Building 4A Menu Coming Soon
Congregate Meal Sites
Noon hot meal Monday through Friday for older adults age 60 and older held at the following locations. Congregate site meals are provided by Meals on Wheels of Eastern Kansas, please call 785-430-2186 the day ahead to order your meal for the next day.
Douglas County
PACE Center at 319 Perry Street, Lawrence
Babcock Place at 1700 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Eudora Parks and Recreation at 1630 Elm St, Eudora
Baldwin Senior Center at 1223 Orchard Lane, Baldwin City
Jefferson County
St. Aloysius Catholic Church at 515 Wyandotte St., Meriden
Shawnee County
Auburn Civic Center
East Topeka Senior Center
The First Apartments
Highland Park United Methodist Church
LULAC Senior Center
Papan’s Landing Senior Center
Rossville Senior Center
Silver Lake Senior Citizen’s Center
Tyler Towers
Home Delivered Meals
- Meals on Wheels of Eastern Kansas provides home delivered meals five days a week to home-bound seniors in Shawnee, Douglas and Jefferson counties through a network of volunteer drivers. Midland Care Meals on Wheels
- Lawrence Meals on Wheels provides home delivered meals five days a week to home-bound seniors within Lawrence city limits through a network of volunteer drivers. Lawrence Meals on Wheels Link
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
The Food Assistance Program serves as the first line of defense against hunger. It provides crucial support to elderly households, to low-income working households, to other low-income households that include the unemployed or disabled and to households transitioning from welfare to work. Food assistance customers can spend their benefits to buy eligible nutritious food and plants and seeds to grow food for their household to eat. SNAP Information Link