About the Healthy Families Program

Healthy Families works to eliminate hunger & address nutrition-related issues that impact a household’s budget, children’s performance in school & the overall physical health of families. Through services within Healthy Families, households learn various tools that help them implement changes to food budgeting & preparation and lead families on a road to healthier living. Providing families the opportunity to secure groceries weekly through the food pantry eliminates impossible choices that food insecure households throughout the U.S. are forced to make; choosing between food & safe housing, health care, or child care. 

Food Pantry

Registered clients can visit the food pantry once a week to collect their perishable & non-perishable groceries.

Food Pantry Distribution Hours:
Tuesday: 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 11:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

LCAC distributes kids’ packs Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays during distribution. These are intended for families with children under the age of 18. 

LCAC distributes dog/cat food during distribution.

Nutrition Courses

Adult/Kids Basic Nutrition Courses:
               • Series of three classes.
               • Nutritional education with hands-on meal preparation, food safety, and sensible food shopping.
               • LCAC clients receive ingredients for the recipes demonstrated in the class to replicate the recipes at home. 
               • LCAC clients will earn a graduation certificate.

****Program is accessible to all LCAC clients*****

Clean Start Program

The objective of LCAC’s Clean Start program is to provide personal care items for individuals and families to not only improve their quality of life but also to free up their income for other essential household expenses (gas, school supplies, utilities, etc.). Specifically, our goal is to provide 400 families (based on a four-person household) with one bag of personal care items on a monthly basis. Personal care items include:

• • •                • Dental products
    •                • Hair care items
    •                • Deodorants
    •                • Soaps
    •                • Lotions
    •                • Shaving products
    •                • Feminine hygiene products
    •                • Facial tissue
    •                • Toilet tissue