Overview

Population

• The U.S. Census data shows the total population for Somerset County of 297,490.

Demographics

• Twenty-six percent of the County's total population is non-white. County make-up is as follows: Caucasian 220,584 (74%), Hispanic 25,811 (9%), Asian 26,742 (9%) and African American 23,853 (8%).

USDA Food Stamp Eligible Families

• The total number of Food Stamp recipients in Somerset County is 3,439. This includes 2,080 adults and 1,359 children.

Somerset County Project

The Somerset County Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program target area includes 2 senior centers in the following towns: Manville, which has a 58% level of poverty in the senior population and South Bound Brook, which has a 57% poverty level in the elderly population.

Non- Duplication of Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Services

This project will not duplicate EFNEP efforts in Somerset County as there is no EFNEP Program in this location.

Project Objectives

To promote the FSNEP Project and its statewide mission to food stamp eligible residents in Somerset County, to increase food security through nutrition education programs to Food Stamp eligible seniors (link to mission statement for NJ FSNEP).

Project Activities

• To provide behaviorally-focused, learner-driven, outcome-based nutrition education to the two lowest income senior sites in Somerset County.

Contact

Kim Seppelt, Program Associate
Hunterdon County FSNEP
RCE of Hunterdon County
P.O. Box 2900, 4 Gauntt Place
Flemington, N.J. 08822
Phone: (973) 788-1342
Fax: (973) 806-4735
Email: kssep@rci.rutgers.edu