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Provides packages of healthy food for children with limited or no access to food on weekends or during the summer months.

Weekends Without Hunger - Participants aged 4-18 years are referred by schools aware of students with limited access to food in their homes. Food packages are tucked discreetly into children's backpacks. Food bags are filled with healthy food items, including 5 fresh fruit items.

Summer Feeding Program - Through July and August, all students registered in the program receive grocery store gift cards through the mail at their homes on a bi-weekly basis.

A partnership of community agencies and community members that supports and facilitates local student nutrition programs for children and youth in Hamilton. Provides information on starting a nutrition program.

Ensures that children and youth in need have access to a healthy breakfast in a safe, supervised environment, helping them to start their school day.

Distributes healthy food packages to more than 100 schools supporting more than 1,200 elementary school students in Halton

• food items are packed by volunteers and delivered to schools every Friday
• at the school, the food package is placed discreetly into the student's own backpack helping to shield the child from any stigma associated with hunger or receiving food assistance
• each child in the home receives their own food package

Partnership with Halton community and school boards working to improve the learning capacity, health and well being of children and youth via Student Nutrition Programs / universal access to healthy food at school

• programs include healthy meals and snacks served before or during the school day
• every elementary and/or secondary student within a Halton Food for Thought partner school is encouraged to participate

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

This organization promotes healthy food choices, supports and provides local food education and outreach in the community

• partner with local schools to provide nutritious lunches to school-aged children free of charge
• children are provided lunch and three snacks per day
• any child who submits a request form will be provided with a meal

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

On school days, Keep Kids Fed At School (formerly Food & Friends) provides breakfast, snack, and lunch programs for local students in Dufferin, Wellington County, and Guelph. Through socially inclusive student nutrition programs, nutritious food is provided to help improve their physical and mental well-being.

To bridge the school weekend gap, Keep Kids Fed At Home (formerly Food4Kids Guelph) provides take-home food packages to severely food insecure children in Guelph. During school holidays, the program provides these children/families with grocery gift cards to help them buy food.

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

Facilitates and oversees the operation of free programs for children and caregivers residing in the Mississauga communities of Forest Ridge and Arbour Mill and surrounding neighbourhoods


Child & Parent Resource Centres:

• Early Years program for preschool children under 6 years and their parents/guardians
• children must be accompanied by a caregiver
  
• Family Time drop-in programs, Tue 9 am-12 noon year round at Forest Ridge

Family Kitchen:

• for parents with children under 6 years
• food shopping tips, nutrition, meal planning, cooking skills and social eating skills for children
• children attend playgroup while parents cook, then parents and children come together for the meal
• Tue 9:30 am-12:30 pm
• preregistration required

The Audrey Pritchard Breakfast Clubs:

• nutritional breakfasts served at Forest Ridge and Arbour Mill locations
• weekdays during school year beginning 7 am
• lunches available to children in need

• EarlyON prenatal and infant groups
• EarlyON parent and child drop-in
• EarlyON kindergarten readiness and early literacy groups
• Workshop Wednesdays
• school age - after school programs
• Breakfast Club - Mon-Fri mornings
• day camps - Summer and March Break
• teen drop-in programs
• community model of learning English
• leadership development
• programs provided by partner agencies include job search, health promotion, violence prevention
• community garden, must live within the community

• improves attendance and punctuality
• increases understanding of how healthy eating habits affect energy levels
• improves behavior and increases concentration, leading to greater achievement
• improves social skills and confidence to interact with other children and adults
• promotes nutritionally complete programs that follow the student nutrition guidelines, established by the Ministry of Children Community and Social Services for breakfast, lunch, and snack.

Food4Kids provides backpacks of healthy food for kids with limited or no food during weekend periods and summer months

• food items are packed by volunteers and delivered to schools every Friday morning
• at the school, the food package is placed discreetly into the student's own backpack helping to shield the child from any stigma associated with hunger or receiving food assistance
• each child in the home receives their own food package
• programs are 100% funded by community donors and one-time grants