your RESOURCES:

• Assisted Living Federation of America
• BMI- Body mass index is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to both adult men and women. Learn more here!
• CCA- Christian Community Action
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services- Information on what Medicare covers and how to enroll.
• Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) -USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program plays a vital role in improving the quality of day care and making it more affordable for many low-income families. Each day, 2.6 million children receive nutritious meals and snacks through CACFP. The program also provides meals and snacks to 74,000 adults who receive care in nonresidential adult day care centers. CACFP reaches even further to provide meals to children residing in homeless shelters, and snacks and suppers to youths participating in eligible afterschool care programs.
• Children's Health links
• CHIP- Texas families with uninsured children may be eligible for health insurance through Children’s Medicaid and CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program). 
• City of Coppell Texas Official Site 
• Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) - CSFP works to improve the health of low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, other new mothers up to one year postpartum, infants, children up to age six, and elderly people at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA commodity foods. It provides food and administrative funds to States to supplement the diets of these groups.
• Consumer.gov- Federal health information resources and more.
• Coppell Texas Chamber of Commerce  
• Coppell Texas Independent School District
• Coppell Texas Weather
• Eat Smart Play Hard -Eat Smart. Play Hard.TM is about making America's children healthier. It's about practical suggestions that will help you motivate children and their caregivers to eat healthy and be active. The Eat Smart. Play Hard.TM Campaign messages and materials are fun for children and informative for caregivers. To make your job easier, we have kid-tested the messages and based them on the Food Guide Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
• Elder Law Answers
• Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) -The WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) provides fresh, unprepared, locally grown fruits and vegetables from local farmers' markets to Women, Infants and Children (WIC) recipients.
• Food and Drug Administration
• Food Assistance for Disaster Relief -FNS’s Food Distribution Division has the primary responsibility of supplying food to disaster relief organizations such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army for mass feeding or household distribution. Disaster organizations request food and nutrition assistance through State agencies that run USDA’s nutrition assistance programs. State agencies notify USDA of the types and quantities of food that relief organizations need for emergency feeding operations.
• Healthfinder.gov- Reliable consumer health services information  from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Health Grades for your doctor
• HIPAA-is the acronym of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
  - Standardized electronic transmission
  - Unique health identifiers for individuals
  - Privacy and security standards to protect the confidentiality
• HSA information with the IRS
• Guide for caring for the Elderly
• Kiplinger's Tools Page- Calculators and other financial planning tools from a leading money and advice publication.
• Long Term Planning Tool
• Medical Information Bureau
• Metrocrest Social Services  Carrollton, Texas
• National Association for Home Care & Hospice
• National Center for Assisted Living
• National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
  School districts and independent schools that choose to take part in the lunch program get cash subsidies and donated commodities from the USDA for each meal they serve. In return, they must serve lunches that meet Federal requirements, and they must offer free or reduced price lunches to eligible children. School food authorities can also be reimbursed for snacks served to children through age 18 in afterschool educational or enrichment programs.
• Paying for LTC
• President Signs S.1932, Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
  The Deficit Reduction Act's reforms in Medicare and Medicaid are a step on the road to long-term stability for these important programs.
• School Breakfast Program (SBP)
  The School Breakfast Program operates in the same manner as the National School Lunch Program.  School districts and independent schools that choose to take part in the breakfast program receive cash subsidies from the USDA for each meal they serve. In return, they must serve breakfasts that meet Federal requirements, and they must offer free or reduced price breakfasts to eligible children.
• Senior Adult Services Carrollton, Texas
• Special Care & Career Services  (Farmers Branch,  Texas)
• Special Milk Program (SMP)
  Participating schools and institutions receive reimbursement from the USDA for each half pint of milk served. They must operate their milk programs on a non-profit basis. They agree to use the Federal reimbursement to reduce the selling price of milk to all children.
• State Processing Program
  The State Processing Program allows States and eligible recipient agencies such as school districts to contract with commercial food processors to convert bulk or raw USDA commodities into more convenient ready-to-use end products. Most of the commodities processed through this program go to schools participating in the National School Lunch Program. Once the donated food is made available to States, the overall organization and administration of the State Processing Program become the responsibilities of the State agency.
• Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)
  SFSP is the single largest Federal resource available for local sponsors who want to combine a feeding program with a summer activity program. Children in your community do not need to go hungry this summer. During the school year, nutritious meals are available through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. But those programs end when school ends for the summer. The Summer Food Service Program helps fill the hunger gap.
• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) 
    As of Oct. 1, 2008, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
    is the new name for the federal Food Stamp Program. The new name
    reflects the changes we’ve made to meet the needs of our clients,
    including a focus on nutrition and an increase in benefit amounts. SNAP
    is the federal name for the program. State programs may have
    different names.  SNAP puts healthy food within reach for 28 million people each month via an EBT card used to purchase food at most grocery stores. Through nutrition education partners, SNAP helps clients learn to make healthy eating and active lifestyle choices.
• Team Nutrition
  Team Nutrition is a USDA initiative to provide training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity. Team Nutrition's Goal is to improve children's lifelong eating and physical activity habits by using the principles of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid.
• Texas Association of Community Health Centers (TACHC)
• Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services
• Texas Department of Insurance Phone: 800-252-3439
• Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool
  (Health Pool)-  Contact them to see if you are eligible.
  What is the Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool?
  the Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool is a health insurance program created by the Texas Legislature to provide health insurance to Texas residents who either (i) cannot obtain adequate health insurance coverage as a result of their medical conditions, or (ii) are considered "Federally Eligible Individuals," as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly referred to as HIPAA.
• Texas PricePoint- Health care consumers now can view and compare charge data on inpatient hospital services provided at Texas hospitals.
• Texas State Continuation for groups under 20 employees
• The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
  Under TEFAP, commodity foods are made available by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to States. States provide the food to local agencies that they have selected, usually food banks, which in turn, distribute the food to soup kitchens and food pantries that directly serve the public.
• The Family Place Metrocrest Carrollton, Texas
• The Alzheimer's Foundation of America
• Today's Caregiver Magazine
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Medicare, Long Term Care
• Your Long Term Care Agent
• If your insurance doesn’t cover all the costs for the procedure you want and need, where do you turn? CareCredit,  a GE Money Company, gives you convenient payment options so you can get the procedure you want, when you want it. 
• WebMD
• Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
  The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children - better known as the WIC Program - serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, & children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and referrals to health care.