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Wellness Promotion

Community Hunger Relief

• Pan-Florida Challenge through the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County provided backpacks at six
schools and delivered directly to South Grade Elementary serving a total of 469 students
throughout the seven schools.
• Blessings in a Backpack provides food on the weekends for elementary school children across America
and four of our elementary schools were fortunate to have this program with 401 students benefiting
from it.
• First United Methodist Church Jupiter-Tequesta is a community outreach program supported by First
UMC of Jupiter-Tequesta members designed to help elementary schools in the Town of Jupiter.
For FY22, they worked with three elementary schools by providing nutritious food bags to 139 students.
• Living Hungry-Not One Hungry Homeless Students not only provided weekend meals at 17 of our
schools but they delivered a variety of additional resources to our homeless students including hygiene
kits, socks, comfort packs, school supplies, backpacks, gift cards, dinner vouchers, bus passes,
FL State ID and more.

SDPBC Hunger Relief Program Participation Total for FY22:

• 78 Backpack/Food Bag Programs (Students Served - 5,336)
• 4 Food Pantry Programs
• 14 Cities with Programs throughout SDPBC
• 10 Summer Backpack/Food Bag Programs (as of 6/13/2022)
The goal of the District’s Hunger Relief Collaboration Team (HRCT) is to establish a supportive system to
assist schools with food insecurity issues in our community by working with local organizations who are
looking to provide backpacks, food pantries and/or any other food distribution programs to
support our students and families. With this important goal in mind, the HRCT has worked diligently the
past five school years.

Connecting with the Community

Connecting with the community continues to be an important goal for the District and the Wellness Promotion
Task Force. To keep everyone abreast of our community and the District’s progress during the COVID-19
pandemic, we implemented the Wellness Promotion Task Force (WPTF) Newsletters as we continued in our
endeavor in creating a Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) culture and showcasing the
symphony of services that improve learning and health overall. In the Spring of 2020, we released these WPTF
Newsletters on a weekly basis, then moved to bi-weekly; then monthly, based on the improving landscape
Passion • Quality • Respect
of the pandemic in which the District made a full return to brick and mortar for the 2021-2022 school year.
We delivered these ‘Wellness Promotion: District and Community Updates’ newsletters to many internal and
external stakeholders. In FY22, we had a total of 12 WPTF Newsletters released and continued receiving
positive feedback from our stakeholders.

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