{"id":371998,"date":"2025-11-11T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/371998\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:27:13","slug":"food-relief-efforts-ramping-up-for-snap-recipients-federal-workers-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/371998\/","title":{"rendered":"Food relief efforts ramping up for SNAP recipients, federal workers | Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nonprofit and interfaith organizations across Harris County are offering special food distributions to SNAP recipients and federal employees whose paychecks have been paused due to the federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that it will be able to fund partial payments to SNAP recipients for the month of November, but many families across Harris County still face uncertainty over whether they can afford enough groceries this month. More than 300,000 Harris County residents receive SNAP benefits, according to Texas Health and Human Services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Residents may need to register and bring a photo ID before visiting a food distribution site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Large One-Time Distribution Event Near YouAdditional Resources:\u00a0Local Food Pantries<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Organization<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Location<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Days\/Times<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Details\/Eligibility<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Heights Interfaith Ministries Food Pantry<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>3500 block of W. 12th St.<\/td>\n<td>Thursday: 4:00 PM \u2013 6:00 PM<\/td>\n<td>Call 713-861-6155 for information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Saturday: 10:00 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Victory Family Outreach Ministries<\/strong> (FOOD PANTRY)<\/td>\n<td>222 Royder Street, Houston, TX 77009<\/td>\n<td>Mondays: 12:00 PM \u2013 4:00 PM<\/td>\n<td>Call 713-699-4357 for information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Annette Strawder Here to Help<\/strong> (FOOD PANTRY)<\/td>\n<td>835 West 23rd Street, Houston, TX 77008<\/td>\n<td>Tuesday: 10:00 AM \u2013 2:00 PM<\/td>\n<td>Call 713-862-5117 for information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>BakerRipley &#8211; Castillo<\/strong> (FOOD PANTRY)<\/td>\n<td>2101 South Street, Houston, TX 77009<\/td>\n<td>2nd Thursday of each month: 8:00 AM \u2013 11:00 AM<\/td>\n<td>Call 713-380-2260 for information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Impact Houston<\/strong> (FOOD PANTRY)<\/td>\n<td>1704 Weber Street, Houston, TX 77007<\/td>\n<td>Tuesday &amp; Thursday: 9:00 AM \u2013 11:00 AM<\/td>\n<td>Call 713-864-5667 for information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Wednesday: 6:00 PM \u2013 8:00 PM<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Anyone interested in donating food items or lending financial support is encouraged to contact the respective organization directly or visit the Houston Food Bank at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonfoodbank.org\/ways-to-give\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">houstonfoodbank.org\/ways-to-give<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nonprofit and interfaith organizations across Harris County are offering special food distributions to SNAP recipients and federal employees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":371999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[718,4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-371998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115532244146746274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}