Vacaville Unified’s Seamless Summer Food Program offers free nutritious breakfasts and lunches to all children 18 and younger, Mondays to Fridays through Aug. 9 at three sites across town. Note: There will be no service on Wednesday (Juneteenth) and July 4 (Independence Day).
Children must be present to receive meals. No application is necessary and no questions are asked. The locations and hours are as follows: Feeding hungry children during summer is part of the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program overseen by the U.
S. Department of Agriculture. The service seeks to provide children with access to the healthy, fresh food they need to grow, learn, and succeed in school.
Theresa Stout, the former director of child nutrition for Vacaville Unified School District, organized the local Seamless Summer Feeding program in 2012, believing that children from low-income, “food insecure” homes may not be getting enough healthy food to eat when regular classes are not in session. Hunger, she told The Reporter during one interview, “doesn’t take a vacation,” and she believed the free meals may be the only well-balanced, nutritious food the children eat each day. The school district’s summer feeding program comes as the state Department of Education offers an interactive map to help families find places serving free meals to students during summertime.
It means California families, if they are on vacation or traveling in another county, can find a place to take.
