City of San Jose, CA
06/30/2022 | News release | Distributed by Public on 06/30/2022 10:51
#SILICONVALLEYSTRONGHEROES Second Harvest of Silicon Valley Help Relieve Food Insecurity through Free Summer Meals for Local Youth
#SILICONVALLEYSTRONGHEROES Second Harvest of Silicon Valley Help Relieve Food Insecurity through Free Summer Meals for Local Youth
*This is a special feature from the City of San José, Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services
Post Date:06/30/2022 9:30 AM
*This is a special feature from the City of San José, Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services
Summer is here! While families can look forward to a fun and exciting season, it can be a difficult time for families that rely on school meals during the academic year. Ensuring children have access to nutritious meals and snacks when school is not in session is important to a community's health.
Thanks to our #SiliconValleyStrongHeroes, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, San José youth have access to free, nutritious meals again this summer.
This year, there will be more than 80 federally funded summer meals sites in both San Mateo County and Santa Clara County where any child or teen 18 or younger can get a free lunch with no advance registration or documentation required. Some sites even offer free breakfast and an afternoon snack.
To raise awareness, encourage participation, and help connect households, select sites have received grants to provide low-cost or no-cost meals to parents and caregivers so families can eat together.
According to Leslie Bacho, CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, "For many students from low-income families, the breakfast and lunch they get at school are some of the only nutritious meals they can count on," she added, "The pandemic has magnified the important role that daily, nutritious school meals play in fighting child hunger and food insecurity."
To find a location participating in free summer meals, you can visit www.shfb.org/mealsforkids and enter your location using address, city or zip code. Users will have access to location details, mealtimes and contact information.
In addition to the locator, families who need help finding a summer meal can text "Summer" for English, "Verano" for Spanish, or "Muahe" for Vietnamese to 876-876. For help accessing other food resources, call Second Harvest's multilingual Food Connection hotline at 800-984-3663 or visit www.shfb.org/get-food.
Thank you to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, this week's #SiliconValleyStrongHeroes, for ensuring children have access to nutritious meals and snacks when school is not in session. They are improving the health of those in our community by making this resource available to our youth.
Return to full list >>Summer is here! While families can look forward to a fun and exciting season, it can be a difficult time for families that rely on school meals during the academic year. Ensuring children have access to nutritious meals and snacks when school is not in session is important to a community's health.
Thanks to our #SiliconValleyStrongHeroes, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, San José youth have access to free, nutritious meals again this summer.
This year, there will be more than 80 federally funded summer meals sites in both San Mateo County and Santa Clara County where any child or teen 18 or younger can get a free lunch with no advance registration or documentation required. Some sites even offer free breakfast and an afternoon snack.
To raise awareness, encourage participation, and help connect households, select sites have received grants to provide low-cost or no-cost meals to parents and caregivers so families can eat together.
San José youth enjoying a healthy and delicious free lunch. Photo courtesy of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley website.
According to Leslie Bacho, CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, "For many students from low-income families, the breakfast and lunch they get at school are some of the only nutritious meals they can count on," she added, "The pandemic has magnified the important role that daily, nutritious school meals play in fighting child hunger and food insecurity."
To find a location participating in free summer meals, you can visit www.shfb.org/mealsforkids and enter your location using address, city or zip code. Users will have access to location details, mealtimes and contact information.
In addition to the locator, families who need help finding a summer meal can text "Summer" for English, "Verano" for Spanish, or "Muahe" for Vietnamese to 876-876. For help accessing other food resources, call Second Harvest's multilingual Food Connection hotline at 800-984-3663 or visit www.shfb.org/get-food.
Thank you to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, this week's #SiliconValleyStrongHeroes, for ensuring children have access to nutritious meals and snacks when school is not in session. They are improving the health of those in our community by making this resource available to our youth.