Summer Meals and Pantry Programs!
With summer
approaching very soon, our counseling and student support team wants to make
sure families in our community know and have a few resources when it comes to
food and meals. We know the summer can be tough for some families to provide
enough food for their family, especially their children. Our community is
fortunate to have two different food pantries. One is our School Food Pantry
located in our elementary building. The other is the Community Food Pantry
located at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Carlisle. Here are the “open” dates
for the School Food Pantry this summer:
June 6th
June 20th
**July 2nd (This is a TUESDAY. We will not be open
on July 4th)
July 18th
August 1st
August 15th
The Holy Cross Lutheran
Church in Carlisle (1100 Market St.) has a food pantry open to the community on
the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. This pantry is open
from 4:00-5:30 p.m. on these days.
One final great
source of food and meals is the Summer Meal Meet-Up program. There is a graphic
attached to this Counselor’s Corner giving more details. This program provides
daily breakfast and lunch to children age 18 and under here in Warren County.
Polk County also has several daily breakfast and lunch programs as well. If
these Warren County locations do not work, feel free to text “FOOD” to 877-877
to find out where the nearest free meal location is each day. You can also call
the United Way at 2-1-1 and ask about the Summer Meals program.
If you have any
questions, please reach out to a school counselor in our district. We are here
to help and we want to make sure the children and families in our district have
resources to help with any of their food/nutrition needs.
