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Share Bear Snack Pack

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What is the Share Bear Snack Pack?
snackpackThe Share Bear Snack Pack Program is designed to meet the needs of hungry children at times when other food resources are not available, such as weekends and school vacations. Though Private and corporate donations the Snack Pack Program is the first of its kind in Oregon.

How it works:

  • Backpacks are filled with food that children take home on weekends.
  • Food is child-friendly, nonperishable and easily consumed.
  • Distribution is handled discreetly on the last day before the weekend or school vacation.


Schools will:

  • Select the children
  • Distribute the food
  • Report progress to South Coast Food Share


South Coast Food Share will:

  • Ready the food for distribution
  • Transport the food to each site
  • Solicit donations to support the program
  • Provide public relations for the program


Together we can work towards food stability and ending hunger for our children in need.

Why the program exists...
typical-spSeven-year-old Cody and his nine-year-old sister Mackenzie hurried into their house in a recent Friday afternoon and emptied their school backpacks. On the kitchen table, next to a family picture and a pile of bills, each child laid out a box of Special K cereal, a carton of milk, a package of peanut-butter crackers, a cup of fruit cocktail, a bag of animal crackers, a carton of apple juice, a pull-top can of bean and franks and one of rice and beans. It wasn't a weekend homework assignment, it was their weekend breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Cody and Mackenzie are members of Share Bear Snack Pack Program sponsored by South Coast Food Share a program of Oregon Coast Community Action.

The teachers, school counselors, nurses, and social workers based on the knowledge of the family backgrounds and the behavior of the children in the classroom choose kids for the Share Bear Snack Pack Program.

Typical Snack Pack
The children's backpacks are for the most part filled with child-friendly food that is nutritious, easy to open, and doesn’t require stove-top cooking.



Snack Pack Inserts

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The weekly insert is designed to provide money saving tips and resources for parents and fun games and nutritional facts for children and adults.

Last Updated on Monday, 21 June 2010 14:25 Read more...
 

Our Sponsors

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  • MHS Program
  • Bank of America
  • The Oregon Community Fund
  • Gordon Elwood Foundation
  • Umpqua Bank
  • Community 101- Bandon High School
  • West Familiy Foundation
  • National Elks Foundation: BPOE 1160
  • Verizon Foundation
  • Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation
  • Coquille Tribal Community Fund
  • Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 September 2010 09:50
 

Schools

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There are currently 12 sites, based on free and reduced lunch percentages and poverty rates.
  • Great Afternnoons, Reedsport
  • Hillcrest Elementary, North Bend
  • Bunker Hill, Coos Bay
  • Madison Elementary, Coos Bay
  • North Bay Elementary, North Bend
  • Kalmiopsis, Brookings
  • Myrtle Crest, Myrtle Point
  • Driftwood, Port Orford
  • Ocean Crest, Bandon
  • The Guild, Coos Bay/North Bend
  • Tilte X, North Bend
  • Coos County DHS, Coos County
A total of 575 children are participating in the program.
Last Updated on Monday, 08 February 2010 15:38
 



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