ESC Annual Report 2019
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Children are Ready for School<br />
experiences and staff can request other ideas or recipes.<br />
Nutrition experiences must be low in salt, sugar and fat.<br />
<strong>ESC</strong>’s Head Start and Early Head Start are Missouri Eat<br />
Smart certified. These guidelines are a set of nutritional<br />
recommendations for child care facilities and schools to<br />
improve the health of Missouri’s children.<br />
Economic Security Corporation can help resolve some<br />
of these issues through outreach, intake, assessment<br />
and referrals to organizations who can stretch<br />
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or<br />
by assisting families’ access SNAP.<br />
Two of <strong>ESC</strong>’s Counties have some<br />
significant food insecurities noted:<br />
Barton County has 24.49%<br />
of their children under the age of<br />
18 report being food insecure.<br />
In McDonald County over<br />
24.51% of their children<br />
under the age of 18<br />
report being food insecure.<br />
there was a “sharing table” that the children could take<br />
from, items usually provided: half pints of milk, yogurt,<br />
fresh fruit and vegetables.<br />
Head Start and Early Head Start nutrition experiences<br />
introduces new colors, textures, flavors and cultures that<br />
children may not get to experience at home. Pictured<br />
below are children at <strong>ESC</strong>’s Head Start in Lamar trying<br />
a new recipe, taco soup. The thumbs up is the way the<br />
kids always approve a new dish.<br />
Summer<br />
Food Program<br />
Summer Food Service Program<br />
New this year selected locations of Head Start and<br />
Early Head Start Centers received the United States<br />
Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service<br />
Program (SFSP). Our agency felt it was important for<br />
children to continue to receive nutritious meals when<br />
school is not in session. When school is out, Summer<br />
Food Service provides free meals to kids and teens<br />
in low-income areas. This past summer, we had three<br />
Head Start locations open every Monday, Wednesday<br />
and Friday from June 4th to July 20th to serve any low<br />
income child a nutritious meal. We had one location in<br />
McDonald County, Anderson Head Start, and<br />
two locations in Jasper County, Carthage<br />
Head Start and North Joplin Head Start.<br />
We were open for 20 days and served<br />
512 meals to low income children. Children receiving<br />
meals were always encouraged to take seconds and<br />
Breakfast<br />
with Dads<br />
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