Wraparound Support
Meals & Nutrition
Food is learning infrastructure. When participants are fed, they focus. When they're hungry, nothing else works.
Food is learning infrastructure. When participants are fed, they focus. When they're hungry, nothing else works.
Youth programming budgets meals as standard infrastructure. Adult programming provides session-based support during long modules.
Youth meals and snacks as standard learning infrastructure for every session.
Adult session-based support during intensive training and long evening modules.
Community food partnerships to extend nutrition beyond program walls.
"Youth programming should continue to budget meals and snacks as learning infrastructure."
Dynamic AchieversFull meals and snacks during after-school, Saturday, and summer immersion sessions.
Meals during intensive daytime cohorts and long evening sessions.
Collaborations with food banks, community kitchens, and school nutrition programs.