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Feeding Our Future - Reducing Childhood Hunger in Boone County

Save the Date: Feeding Our Future - Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Mark your calendars for our one day event to raise awareness of childhood hunger in Boone County and raise money to fight it. (Download the Save the Date: Feeding Our Future postcard)

• • Panel Discussion/Workshop: 4 - 5pm
• • Panel Discussion/Workshop Repeated: 6 - 7pm
     Appetizers & Desserts Available
• • Vendor Fair: 4 -7pm

Download the Feeding Our Future Tri-fold Brochure

Goals:

1. By 2015 - Reduce childhood hunger by 50% in Boone County.
2. By 2020 - Eliminate childhood hunger in Boone County

Three Initiatives Established by the Hunger Initiative Committee:

1. Kids at the Table - Kids At the Table is an on-site feeding program which provides a hot meal to school age children, after school through the school year, at Stokes Elementary School and at the Lebanon Boys & Girls Club. At the LBGC, three meals a day are offered through the week during summer break.
2. Food Pantries - The Caring Center provides supplemental food through our client choice food pantry. The Hunger Initiative committee has been instrumental in helping us to provide nutritious food (fresh fruit & vegetables and milk and other dairy products) to our clients. The Stokes food pantry opened in the fall of 2010 using a start-up Grant provided by Gleaner's Food Bank..
3. Table Talk - A new program started in the Fall 2011 to help 20 families manage their food resources with bi-weekly meetings to discuss their food situation, attend cooking and nutrition classes and review expense budgeting techniques. Food will be provided by the Caring Center to ensure that these families are completely food secure.

Kids at the Table (KAT) Program - Two Locations

Location #1: Lebanon Boys and Girls Club, 403 W. Main, Lebanon– 4:30 to 5:30 pm, Monday-Friday year round.
• Volunteers are needed to serve food and to provide homework assistance.

Location #2: Stokes Elementary School, 1005 Hendricks Drive, Lebanon – 4 to 5:30 pm, Monday-Friday during the school year.
• Volunteers are needed to serve food, to provide homework assistance and to help build literacy skills.

Background

This program is targeted at school aged children on the free/reduced lunch program and provides experiences in health & fitness, homework assistance, games and a nutritional meal.

Volunteers are needed for this program and more training sessions will be held. Please call the Caring Center at 765-482-2020 if you are interested. Volunteers need to be sixteen years of age or older.

Please check out the 2010 Feeding Our Future slide show.

History of Kids at the Table

In August 2009 we held several fundraising events for this program and formed committees to get a kid's cafe up and running. On March 8, 2010, in partnership with the Lebanon Boys and Girls Club, the first KAT - Kids at the Table session was held at the Lebanon Boys and Girls Club.

Caring Center Photos

Did You Know?

The Caring Center relies entirely on the generous donations and aid from its supporters to provide assistance to those in need.

The Caring Center accepts monetary donations online

Make a donation here.

Want to help?

Watch our volunteer slide show to learn how you can help. More info...

1230 Ransdell Court
Lebanon, IN 46052
765-482-2020 (Caring Center)
765-894-6772 (Classic Reruns)
info@thecaringcenter.net
Hours:
M, W - 8am to 2pm
Tu, Th, & F - 11 am to 5 pm
1st Sat each month - 9 am to Noon

Feeding Our Future Slide Show:

• Feeding Our Future - July 2010