Facts & Information

When school is out, children lose access to the breakfast and lunch they receive at school, as well as the safe, structured place where kids spend their days. Programs that pair free meals with safe, supervised activities help kids most when school is out, and they depend on community support.

The benefits of community — belonging, accountability, encouragement, someone noticing when you are off — still come mostly from shared physical space and repeated time together.

More than one in every four children living in Vigo County (26.8%) – that’s approximately 5,830 children right here in our community – is food insecure. That is the second-highest child food insecurity rate in the entire state of Indiana, and significantly higher than both our seven-county service area rate of 24.3% and the statewide rate of 20.7%. Those numbers should concern everyone invested in the health and future of this community

Between packed schedules, screen time and the everyday pressures of growing up, kids today carry more stress than many adults realize. Yoga offers a simple, low-cost way to help. Once thought of mainly as an adult activity, yoga for kids has become a fixture in classrooms, studios and youth programs across the country. And the research backing it up keeps growing.