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There are several programs available to ensure every Kansas senior has their daily  nutritional needs met.

CHAMPSS – Choosing Healthy Appetizing Meal Plan Solutions for Seniors

Program offered through Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging that allows seniors age 60 and older to choose from different entrees and eat spontaneously at their convenience seven days a week at CHAMPSS locations throughout our three county area. There is a suggested donation per meal and participants must attend an orientation to enroll in the program. Participants say they enjoy the flexibility offered through this program as well as the opportunity to be around people of all ages. The CHAMPSS meal program represents the future of senior care, inter-generational and inclusive.

CHAMPSS Meals expire one year after the day they are added to your card

Check the balance of your CHAMPSS Meals Card here 

CHAMPSS Orientations

Topeka CHAMPSS orientations:  Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging   2910 SW Topeka Blvd Topeka, KS 66611

• Wednesday    September 5, 2018      at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    October 3, 2018           at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    November 7, 2018       at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    December 5, 2018        at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    January 2, 2019            at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    February 6, 2019          at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    March 6, 2019              at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    April 3, 2019                  at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    May 1, 2019                  at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    June 5, 2019                  at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    July 3, 2019                   at 1:30PM     
• Wednesday    August 7, 2019             at 1:30PM
• Wednesday    September 4, 2019      at 1:30PM

Lawrence CHAMPSS orientations:  Lawrence Public Library  707 Vermont St Lawrence, KS 66044

• Monday      August 6, 2018                 at 2:00PM
• Monday      September 10, 2018       at 2:00PM      
• Monday      October 1, 2018              at 2:00PM
• Monday      November 5, 2018          at 2:00PM
• Monday      December 3, 2018           at 2:00PM
• Monday      January 7, 2019                at 2:00PM
• Monday      February 4, 2019              at 2:00PM
• Monday      March 4, 2019                  at 2:00PM
• Monday      April 1, 2019                     at 2:00PM
• Monday      May 6, 2019                     at 2:00PM
• Monday      June 3, 2019                     at 10:00AM    
• Monday      July 1, 2019                      at 10:00AM    
• Monday      August 5, 2019                at 2:00PM
• Monday      September 9, 2019         at 2:00PM      

Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging is always looking for volunteers for the CHAMPSS program.  Click here to see how you can assist us by becoming a volunteer!

CHAMPSS Reorder Form

CHAMPSS LOCATIONS

Douglas County

Hy-Vee at 3504 Clinton Parkway

Hy-Vee at 4000 West Sixth St.

Dillons at 4701 West 6th St.

Dillons at 1015 W. 23^rd St.

Dillons at 1740 Massachusetts St.

Jefferson County

F.W Huston Medical Center, Winchester

Farm House Diner at 408 Sycamore St., Valley Falls

Shawnee County

Dillon’s at 21st and Fairlawn

Dillon’s at 29^th and California

Dillon’s at 29th and Urish Rd

Dillon’s at Hwy 24 & Rochester Rd

Dillon’s at 10th and Gage

Hy-Vee at 2951 SW Wanamaker

Millennium Café́–at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
10th & Washburn Ave., Topeka, Kansas

Congregate Meal Sites

Noon meal five days a week for seniors age 60 and older held at the following locations

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.
• 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.
• Mom’s Meals provides frozen home delivered meals to home-bound seniors in Douglas, Jefferson and Shawnee counties

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.

Seniors Farmer’s Market

Program to provide fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables, herbs, and honey from farmers’ markets, roadside stands and community supported agriculture programs to low-income seniors via coupons that can be exchanged for eligible foods at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs. For purposes of this program, low-income seniors are generally defined as individuals who are at least 60 years old and who have household incomes of not more than 185% of the Federal poverty income guidelines.