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June 2016 REPORT Hadden Family Foundation Helps Hungry Students And the children say THANK YOU! Updates and Overviews The Feeding Hungry Minds program continues to impact young lives in Toronto. Nutrition programs are selected based on their need and their ability to improve in order to become more self‐reliant. Quite often, your funding keeps their programs running while they work to access alternate funding sources and outreach to their parents and their local community. Feeding Hungry Minds continues to provide the right funding to the right schools at the right time. This year a total of 40 Student Nutrition Programs were part of the Feeding Hungry Minds program and 28 achieved sustainability. With food and housing costs rising at an alarming rate, more families are struggling to put food on the table. We are grateful for the special support that the Hadden Family Foundation has extended to the children of so many families in Toronto. The Feeding Hungry Minds program has also made a big difference in the lives of youth involved in beyond 3:30. These youth are safe, happy and engaged while learning new skills like cooking, how to budget and teamwork. These are skills that will last them a lifetime! The following 60 schools have been part of the Feeding Hungry Minds Program and are now in a strong and stable position: Albert Campbell C.I. North East Year Round Alternative Centre Edgewood P.S. Anson Road P.S. Oakridge Jr. P.S. Emery C.I. Banting and Best P.S. Orde Street P.S. Emily Carr P.S. Berner Trail Jr. P.S. Pauline Johnson Jr. P.S. First Nations Jr. and Sr. School of Toronto Birchmount Park C.I. R.H. King Academy Flemington P.S. Bliss Carmen Sr. P.S. Regent Heights P.S. General Brock P.S. Bowmore P.S. RH King Academy Golf Road Jr. P.S. Buchanan P.S. RJ Lang P.S. Grey Owl Jr. P.S. Carleton Village Jr. and Sr. Sports and Samuel Hearne M.S. Guildwood Jr. P.S. Wellness Academy Scarborough Village P.S. H.A Halbert Jr. P.S. Cedar Drive Jr. P.S. Sir Alexander McKenzie Sr. P.S. Highland Heights Jr. P.S. Cedarbrook P.S. Sir Wilfrid Laurier C.I. Inglewood Heights Jr. P.S. Charles Gordon Sr. P.S. Sprucecourt P.S. John A. Leslie P.S. Chester Le Jr. P.S. St. Margaret's P.S. John McCrae P.S. Chief Dan George P.S. Stephen Leacock C.I. Joseph Brant Sr. P.S. City Alternative School Subway Academy L ’Amoreaux C.I. Don Mills C.I. / Don Mills M.S. Tecumseh Sr. P.S. Malvern Junior P.S. Dorset Park P.S. Walter Perry Jr. P.S. Martingrove C.I. Driftwood P.S. Wellesworth Jr. P.S. Melody Village Jr. P.S. East York Alternative S.S. Westview Centennial C.I. Native Learning Centre East Eastview Jr. P.S. Thank You! Programs that met their goals and are now sustainable! Banting and Best Public School Chester Le Junior Public School Number of children nourished: 400 Number of children nourished: 155 Banting and Best P.S. is located near the intersection of The nutrition program at Chester Le Jr. P.S. has had a successful year. With the McCowanRoadandSteelesAvenue.Thevastmajorityofthe support of TFSS, they have secured a new funding source and increased parental children at this school and come from families who struggle contributions. The staff at the school see the impact of the program on the with poverty. classroom and are committed to seeing it succeed long term. Food costs have The team at Banting and Best have worked hard to improve the increased and they struggle to provide three food groups every day but they are quality of the food they are serving and to involve more close. They are ready to “graduate” from the Feeding Hungry Minds program. parents. It is now a stronger program with a plan for long term success. They are an excellent model for others to follow. Cedar Drive Junior Public School Number of children nourished: 750 ThestudentsatCedarDriveJr.P.S.comefromawidevarietyof cultural backgrounds with a significant number of new immigrant students. The nutrition program at Cedar Drive P.S. was able to maintain the successes from last year and grow again. Now that the parents see the benefits of the program, they are supporting it by volunteering and through parental contributions. The coordinator has the program running smoothly and is proud of their success. Don Mills Collegiate Institute and Don Mills Middle School Number of children nourished: 330 Don Mills C.I. and Don Mills M.S. are located side‐by‐sidejustoffofDonMills Cedarbrook Public School Road., north of Eglinton Ave. The surrounding community is a mixture of working Number of children nourished: 508 class families with pockets of families living on social assistance. Thanks to the support of the Hadden Family Foundation the Support from the Hadden Family Foundation allowed this program to develop breakfast program at Cedarbrook P.S. is thriving. The level of into an integral part of both schools. They have been able to expand and now also parent contributions has remained consistent and they have the provide breakfast to students with developmental delays who are bussed in from support of a donor. This year they changed food suppliers which nearby schools. allowed for greater cost savings while improving food quality Students at Don Mills are heavily involved in this program. They help prepare the and variety. Their program is not reliant on one staff or one foodandtheyworkintheamazingon‐site greenhouse that helps provide some funding source making it absolutely sustainable. fresh vegetables to the program. The breakfast program at Don Mills C.I. and M.S. is a model for success. 5 Programs that met their goals and are now sustainable! Dorset Park Public School Number of children nourished: 229 Emily Carr Public School Dorset Park P.S. is located near Lawrence Ave. and Kennedy Number of children nourished: 350 Road in a community often beset with gang activity. Thanks to Emily Carr P.S., located in the Malvern the support of the Feeding Hungry Minds program, every child Neighbourhood Improvement Area, in the school now enjoys a healthy breakfast every school day. fills a giant need every day as it fills 350 Their new coordinator has developed a menu that appeals to tummies! TFSS was able to help them children and their parents. The kids love the food and the secure additional funds for food and parents appreciate that their children are getting healthy food the parents have contributed for the at school. Parental contributions have increased. With solid first time. The equipment from the funding partners in place, the program at Dorset Park is stable Feeding Hungry Minds program has and sustainable. allowed them to prepare more food ‘in‐house’, reducing the amount of pre‐ First Nations Jr./Sr. School of Toronto East York Alternative Secondary School Number of students nourished: 110 Number of students nourished: 70 packed foods the children are eating. They love their program and they are First Nations Jr. and Sr. School of Toronto Few of the students at East York Alternative School have solid is a unique school that welcomes First home bases and too many may not make it to school if there invested in making it better each and every year. Nations children from across the city. wasn’t food available. At East York Alternative, they learn to Most of the students at First Nations Jr cook healthy food and they become part of a community. With and Sr. School are bussed long distances support from a local donor and new equipment from the to school every day and usually arrive Feeding Hungry Minds program, they are more secure than ever withneitherbreakfastnorlunch.Overthe beforeandinagoodpositiontohelp these very vulnerable past four years in the Feeding Hungry youth. Minds program, TFSS has worked with First Nations Jr./Sr. School of Toronto to Emery Collegiate Institute attract additional donors. They are now Number of children nourished: 850 inamorestablefinancialposition.They Emery C.I. is located near Jane Street and Finch Avene., one of continue to attract volunteers from the the most impoverished areas in Toronto. The program has First Nations community and continue to really developed over the past three years. Students are now serve food that is culturally appropriate. fully involved in the preparation and serving of all the food. While this program will always need Absenteeism and lateness have been reduced because the support from others, it has a model that it students want to get there in time for food! TFSS has been able can now follow and the support of a larger to help them secure funding and they are far more confident in community behind them. the long‐term success of this crucial program. Programs that met their goals and are now sustainable! Flemington Public School Grey Owl Junior Public School Number of children nourished: 315 Number of children nourished: 275 Flemington P.S. is located in the Priority Neighbourhood of Grey Owl Jr. P.S. is located north of Sheppard Avenue and east of Neilson Lawrence Heights. A full 60% of the students at the school Road in the Scarborough community of Malvern. This community is where speak English as a second language and 70% of these families many new Canadians make their home. Poverty is a reality for many of the live on an annual household income of under $30,000. This children attending this school whose families live below the poverty line. program faced a challenge last year when their coordinator While the extreme poverty that many in this community face has not gone became sick and had to resign.