Summer Meal Programs!

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 6^th

June 20^th

**July 2^nd (This is a TUESDAY. We will not be open on July 4^th)

July 18^th

August 1^st

August 15^th

   The Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Carlisle (1100 Market St.) has a food pantry open to the community on the 2^nd and 4^th 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.

Nutrition is Important! See the Two Infographics Below

As we transition from summer to school, nutrition is always a big topic. And middle school makes the topic even more important as kids are more often making their own eating choices and eating A LOT of those choices since they are growing so much. Take a look at these two infographics that might open some kids and parents eyes on some bad choices teens might make. (And don't worry, I make some of these choices too...the key is to limit the choices if you can't eliminate them. I need to do better!!)


Via: Term Life Insurance

Click here for the 2nd infographic....a great one about calories!

Infographic Showing Young People's Current Nutrition and Habits.

Thank you to Larry Ferlazzo and his Websites of the Day blog, I found this infographic about the nutrition, or lack of nutrition our young people are getting. It also contains some information about their habits and what media and media advertisements they are exposed to. The "results" section is probably the most alarming. Click on Larry's blog by clicking here to read and see more. You can also click on his "best sites for learning about nutirtion food safety" to learn more.




Here is one part of the infographic, but there is a 2nd smaller infographic on his blog post.