If you or someone you know is interested in receiving food boxes, please sign up today through this link https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/iuQHRly/fooddistribution to receive our weekly email registration alerts. You will be notified when registration for the upcoming week opens. Spaces fill up quickly, and registration will close once they are full. If you or someone you know would like to shop the Beyond Pantry, please fill out the application https://reclique-core-ridgewood.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/27084200/Beyond-Pantry-intake-form.pdf to see if you qualify for pantry assistance.

SNAP Navigators The Ridgewood YMCA has been named a SNAP Navigator by the New Jersey Department of Human Services (NJDHS). We’re here to answer your questions about the NJ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and help you apply for benefits. If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about SNAP, eligibility, or need help with applying, contact us at snap@ridgewoodymca.org

This is a free and confidential program.

About NJ SNAP NJ SNAP is a nutrition assistance program to help individuals and families with low incomes buy the groceries they need to eat healthy with a benefits card accepted in most food retail stores and some farmer’s markets.

(closed the first weekend of the month)

Please register to receive meals by filling form at this site https://communitymealsonwheels.org/register/ Meals are delivered Monday through Friday between 11:30-12:30. We do not deliver on the following holidays: New Years Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Friday after Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Please note that when an above holiday falls on a weekend, CMI typically observes that one-day holiday on the preceding Friday or following Monday, whichever is closer. We will notify clients in advance.

In the event we have to close due to inclement weather, we follow the school closures of Ridgewood Public Schools.

• Slots are limited
• Call in advance for services between 9am-6pm Monday-Friday
• Client will have to bag their own items

A meal delivery program providing nourishing meals at no cost to households affected by cancer. *Eligible participants will receive up to two months of home meal deliveries, each of which will include ten meals that are designed to help meet the nutritional needs of cancer patients and up to ten additional meals for their family members, if requested by the participant. *Eligible patients must live in or around Nutley, NJ, New Haven, CT and areas in New York. Contact your local advocacy representative to send your completed enrollment form: Kathy Nugent, LCSW- CancerCare; knugent@cancercare.org Phone: 1-201-301-6809 Toll-free: 1-800-813-HOPE ext. 6809

33 E. Midland Ave., #214, Paramus, NJ 07653 FIRST, YOU MUST QUALIFY: To qualify for assistance, you must fall within at least one of the following seven categories:

Recipient of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) Recipient of SNAP/Food Stamps Recipient of SSI (Supplemental Security Income) Recipient of WIC (Women, Infants and Children) Recipient of Medicaid Low Income (185% of Poverty - see the schedule below) Disaster (divorce, domestic violence, unusual expense, loss of employment) If you satisfy at least one of the above qualification criteria, and you are not already existing client of ours, please email us at hq@foodbrigade.org with (a) your full name, (b) your above qualification grounds, (c) your town of residence, and (d) how many people are in your household. We will then contact you about our registration process. After registration, clients will receive a barcode to order online for monthly pickup