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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
Topeka CHAMPSS orientations:
Wednesday August 7, 2019 at 1:30PM
Wednesday September 4, 2019 at 1:30PM
Wednesday October 2, 2019 at 1:30PM
Wednesday November 6, 2019 at 1:30PM
Wednesday December 4, 2019 at 1:30PM
Wednesday January 8, 2020 at 1:30PM
Wednesday February 5, 2020 at 1:30PM
Wednesday March 4, 2020 at 1:30PM
Wednesday April 1, 2020 at 1:30PM
Wednesday May 6, 2020 at 1:30PM
Wednesday June 3, 2020 at 1:30PM
Wednesday July 1, 2020 at 1:30PM
Wednesday August 5, 2020 at 1:30PM
Wednesday September 2, 2020 at 1:30PM
Lawrence CHAMPSS orientations: Lawrence Public Library 707 Vermont St Lawrence, KS 66044
- Monday August 5, 2019 at 2:00PM
Monday September 9, 2019 at 2:00PM
Monday October 7, 2019 at 2:00PM
Monday November 4, 2019 at 2:00PM
Monday December 2, 2019 at 2:00PM
Monday January 6, 2020 at 2:00PM
Monday February 3, 2020 at 2:00PM
Monday March 2, 2020 at 2:00PM
Monday April 6, 2020 at 2:00PM
Monday May 4, 2020 at 2:00PM
Monday June 1, 2020 at 10:00AM
Monday July 6, 2020 at 10:00AM
Monday August 3, 2020 at 2:00PM
Monday September 14, 2020 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. 23rd St.
Dillons at 1740 Massachusetts St.
Jefferson County
F.W Huston Medical Center, Winchester
Shawnee County
Dillon’s at 21st and Fairlawn
Dillon’s at 29th 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
**See CHAMPSS Locations**
St. Aloysius Catholic Church at 515 Wyandotte St., Meriden
East Topeka Senior Center
The First Apartments
Highland Park United Methodist Church
LULAC Senior Center
Papan’s Landing Senior Center
Rossville Senior Center
Madison St. Apartments
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.
- 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.