Healthy Families
Supporting Holistic Health In Our Community
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 a variety of 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; food and health care; or food & child care."
Food Pantry
Registered clients can visit the food pantry once a week to collect their perishable & non-perishable groceries.
Food Pantry Hours: (under COVID)
Tuesday: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Thursday: 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
LCAC distributes kids packs at LCAC on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12-2pm for families with children under the age of 18.
Emergency Summer Lunch meals (shelf-stable) are distributed on Mondays from 12-2pm for children under the age of 18.
Nutrition Courses
Basic Nutrition Courses:
A fun series of six classes (offered in the Fall & Spring) that include interactive cooking and nutritional education. The Create Your Plate nutrition course will covers meal preparation, food safety, & sensible food shopping. It is free to all LCAC clients and the course also provides many bonuses:
• You will receive ingredients for the recipes demonstrated in the class in order to replicate the recipes at home.
• You will receive a grocery gift card after completing four weeks of class!
• You will earn a graduation certificate.
• If you meet the requirements for graduation you will receive various cookware items as a graduation gift!
Graduate Nutrition Course:
Offered to graduates of the basic courses & includes instruction on self-care, exercise & wellness.
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 basic 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
