We welcome all low-income families, seniors, and single individuals who meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) low-income eligibility requirement. We are open late afternoons, evenings, and recently added mornings. (See below the low-income eligibility chart.) You can come to the Food Pantry (1) once per week and (2) two times monthly.

You can live in Utica, Rome, the Mohawk Valley, or other surrounding areas. Please get in touch with your friends and family on social media, text, e-mail, or call them to come to the JPC Food Pantry on the days and hours we are open.

Please take a look at the flyer I've included below, which lists food that will be given to the community.

For all who will come to the Food Pantry for the first time, the head of household must bring the identification (I.D.s) of all the people living with you. Acceptable government-issued I.D.s, such as:

1. Birth Certificates

2. NYS Driver's Licenses

3. NYS Photo I.D.s

4. Social Security Cards

5. NYS Benefit Cards

6. Medicaid Cards

7. Medicare Cards.

For our Food Pantry Consumers who need to recertify for the JPC Annual Low-Income Recertification, please bring your JPC Food Pantry Card (JPCFPC), the acceptable government identification (I.D.s) as previously stated for all people in your household, and meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) low-income eligibility requirement (see below)

If you are driving, please park your car (parking is available). The food line will be in the 1400 block from the corner of Arthur and West Street, heading towards 1415 West Street at the registration station.

The Registration Personnel will scan all heads of households' JPC Food Pantry Cards (JPCFPC). Please bring a Government I.D. to verify your JPCFPC.

If you pick up JPCFPC, the Registration Personnel may ask you to print your name and check the processed cards. If they find your card, they will give it to you, scan your card, and you go to the sign-in station.

Suppose you, the head of household, have come to the JPC Food Pantry (F.P.):

a. to pick up your JPCFPC, and it was not found. Re-submit a new F.P. Intake Application

b. For the first time, complete an F.P. Intake application

c. Add or remove people from your F.P. Intake application on file

d. Replace a lost JPCFPC.

The Registration Personnel will direct you to the Intake Station. The Intake Personnel can help you finish the required JPC F.P. Intake Application. You will be given a JPCFPC, or you may be given a temporary JPCFPC that you will use only on that day:

i. You will return to the food line and give the registration personnel your JPCFPC or review your temporary JPCFPC.

ii. You will then proceed to the next station, sign in, and complete the document based on your JPCFPC or temporary JPCFPC.

iii Then, you will proceed to the various food and personal hygiene stations and exit the JPC Free Choice Food Pantry area.

Thank you for your continued support & Join Positive Change at Johnson Park Center (JPC).

Rev. Dr. Maria A. Scates, D.D.

President /CEO/Founder

Based on Annual Incomes

2024-2025 Guidelines*

Household Size------Income

1----------------------$33,885

2----------------------$45,990

3----------------------$58,095

4----------------------$70,200

5----------------------$82,305

6----------------------$94,410

7----------------------$106,515

For Each Additional Person

Add: $12,105