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Appendix T. FNS State recruitment email for survey

OMB No. 0584-[NEW]

Survey of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) Case Management

June 25, 2021

Project Officer: Kristen Corey

Office of Policy Support

Food and Nutrition Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture

1320 Braddock Place

Alexandria, VA 22314

Survey of snap E&T case Management

FNS State recruitment email for survey

Subject: Seeking [State/territory name]’s Participation in a SNAP E&T Study

Dear [Name of SNAP director],

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is sponsoring a new study to better understand how SNAP agencies are providing case management in their SNAP Employment and Training (E&T) programs as well as conducting assessments and delivering participant reimbursements and other supports after referral to E&T. An important goal of the study is to help develop best practices and lessons learned to support SNAP E&T programs. To meet the goals of the study, FNS has contracted with Mathematica to conduct a survey of all 53 SNAP agencies. Please see the attached study description for more details.

FNS strongly encourages all SNAP agencies to participate in this important study. For your agency, participation involves completing a 45-minute online survey. The survey asks about your [State’s/territory’s] policies and guidance about case management approaches and practices, assessing participants (including sharing a copy of an initial non-proprietary assessment you use), and offering participant reimbursements and other support services.

Thank you in advance for your participation in this study. The study findings will be published in a final report that will summarize how SNAP E&T programs across the country are conducting case management, assessing participants, and offering participant reimbursements and other supports. The report will include a [State name] profile that will highlight your agency’s practices, as well as profiles for each State and territory that you can use to learn how others are implementing these important program elements. You will have the opportunity to review your agency’s profile before the final report is published.

Within 3 business days you will receive an email directly from Mathematica with a link to the survey and instructions for completing it. If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact the FNS project officer, Kristen Corey, at kristen.corey@usda.gov or Kristen Joyce, the Mathematica project director, at kjoyce@mathematica-mpr.com.

Public Burden Statement

According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control number for this information collection is 0584-xxxx. The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 4 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the following address: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services, Office of Policy Support, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314, ATTN: PRA (0584-xxxx). Do not return the completed form to this address.