Huntsville City Schools, in conjunction with the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE), will begin its annual Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) on Monday June 3, 2024. The Program will operate Monday through Thursday from June 3, 2024, to June 27, 2024, during summer learning activities. These sites will include:
AAA Elementary/Middle
ASFL Elementary/Middle
Chapman Elementary/Middle
Dawson Elementary
Farley Elementary
Highlands Elementary
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
Ridgecrest Elementary
Whitesburg Elementary/Middle
For external community sites, the program will operate from June 3, 2024, to June 27, 2024, including the Richard Showers Recreation Center serving lunch from 11:30am to 12:30pm and Brahan Springs Splash Pad serving lunch from 1:00pm to 1:45pm.
The program will be closed for the Juneteenth holiday on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
All summer learning school sites will serve breakfast from 7:30am – 8:30am and lunch from 10:45am – 11:45am. All SFSP meals must be consumed on site. Serving times may vary at external community sites.
Each summer across Alabama, millions of meals are served to children and teens at risk of hunger at more than a thousand sponsor sites. The ASLDE’s Child Nutrition Program aims for even more participants this year at sites in Huntsville, Alabama, including both the number of children and teens receiving meals as well as the number of sponsors providing those meals.
Break for a Plate Summer, Alabama’s summer food service program, provides two nutritious meals every day to all children and teens up to 18 years of age during the summer months, regardless of household income. A joint effort of the Alabama State Department of Education and the USDA, Break for a Plate Summer served a record 3 million meals to children in 2018.
While Alabama’s Break for a Plate Summer has outpaced the growth of similar programs in other states, there remains a critical need for sponsors, particularly in rural areas where children and teens often live further from school.
For more information concerning the Summer Food Service Program, call 256-428-6955. To learn more about Break for a Plate Summer or the other child nutrition programs, call 334-694-4659. Visit the official Break for a Plate Summer site or call 211 today for more information.