CTFB offers an array of programs to provide students and children with the necessary nutrition to thrive and be successful!
Holiday Break Food Distributions for Families
During school breaks, many families lose access to the meals and support their children receive during the school day. To help make this time easier, the Central Texas Food Bank is hosting a series of school-based Mobile Food Pantry distributions across our region.
These sites are familiar locations for many families, and visiting a Mobile Pantry during the break can help ensure children have the food they need at home. All distributions are free, and no registration is required.
Below is the full schedule by school district.
Bastrop ISD
January 3 9–10:30 a.m. Cedar Creek High School 793 Union Chapel Rd., Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Pflugerville ISD
January 6 9–11 a.m. Pflugerville Stadium – The Pfield 1440 W Pecan St., Pflugerville, TX 78660
Summer Food Service Program
The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides nutritious lunches and snacks to children of low-income families who lack a dependable source of nutritious meals during summer breaks.
Kids Cafe
Kids Cafe serves as a direct partnership between the Food Bank and existing after-school programs to provide nutritious meals to low-income children who may not otherwise have access to healthy and balanced nutrition outside of school.
Kids Cafes are safe, nurturing places where neighborhood children can go after school to receive a free meal and participate in programs such as homework assistance, physical activities and more.
An official program of Feeding America, Kids Café provided more than 60,000 nutritious after-school meals to children at 22 sites across Central Texas.
Feeding Futures School Pantries Program
School Pantries provide a variety of readily accessible food to low-income students and their families at participating schools. These meals are shelf-stable, protein-rich, and include fresh produce that the school can distribute at its pantry.
Feeding Futures School Pantry participating sites:
Zavala Elementary – Austin ISD
Galindo Elementary – Austin ISD
Creedmoor Elementary – Del Valle ISD
Camino Real Elementary – Hays CISD
Cedar Creek Elementary – Bastrop ISD
Plum Creek Elementary – Lockhart ISD
Marlin Primary School – Marlin ISD
Evant ISD – Evant ISD
Gatesville Primary School – Gatesville ISD
BackPack
BackPack is designed to meet weekend meal needs for children in low-income families. At the end of each week, participating children receive bags of healthy, nutritious, non-perishable meals that they take home with them and eat during the weekend. Each BackPack contains approximately four meals. Our BackPack program delivers to 13 sites and counting.
NSLP
The National School Lunch Program provides serves nutritious, low-cost, or free lunches Texas children in school and residential childcare institutions. We currently serve 145 districts within 28 counties (over 435 schools).
College Food Access
Our College Hunger program supports college students, colleges, and universities in their work toward building campus food systems that allow all students to participate and thrive. In February of 2022, CTFB was awarded a grant by the City of Austin to fund campus-based initiatives to address college hunger on five college and university campuses in Travis County.
If you have any questions or partner interest in our Children’s Programs, please email Brianna Fleming at bfleming@centraltexasfoodbank.org.
Need Food Now?
Find meal sites using Find Food Now. You can also call 2-1-1, text FOOD to 304-304 for help locating a site near you.
