FCCLA & No Kid Hungry Ending Childhood Hunger in America Together

Share Our Strength staff is located in Washington, DC and cannot attend all FCCLA meetings. BUT, we’ve made it easy for you to present on our behalf. Step 1: Greet your workshop attendees. Use these talking points to help guide your 3 minute introduction. Share Our Strength is the National Outreach and Educational partner for FCCLA until There are more than 16 million kids in America that struggle with hunger. Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign is working to end childhood hunger in America by connecting kids with the food they need to thrive. Our partnership launched in FCCLA students have raised nearly $200,000 for No Kid Hungry. A $1 donation to Share Our Strength can connect a child with up to 10 nutritious meals. That means, FCCLA has helped connect kids with nearly 2 million meals. Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign is at work in all 50 states through state and city-based campaigns, nutrition education programs, and investments in local community partners. To learn more about Share Our Strength and the partnership visit: NoKidHungry2.org/fccla.

Step 2: Show Hunger Hits Home, a 40 minute documentary which discusses the topic of hunger in America and showcases how No Kid Hungry is making a difference. The documentary was produced by Food Network and can be viewed online, for free at To encourage attendees to follow along, print and distribute the Hunger Hits Home worksheet on slide 4. Step 3: Depending on time available, discuss the answers to the questions on the worksheet. At least two weeks before your meeting, and we’ll mail you prizes to give to students who participate in the Step 4: End your workshop by showing the slide 5 and printing and distributing the info sheet on slide 6. Helpful Tip: Set up before your workshop starts. Consider distributing worksheets and info sheets as attendees enter the room or have the information already placed on tables or chairs. Make sure you are connected to the internet and Hunger Hits Home is loaded and ready to be played. Have the opening and closing PowerPoint slides opened. This workshop is designed to last minutes. It can be shortened by choosing to start or end the documentary at different times. If you want additional help or have questions, or call

Hunger Hits Home Worksheet One in _______________of our children struggle with hunger. In 2007, _______________ Americans had their homes foreclosed. More than _______________children in America struggle with hunger. That’s nearly the entire population of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and _____________________ combined. _____________________ is the national spokesperson for Share our Strength. The goal of Share Our Strength is to end childhood hunger by the year _______________. SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is commonly called _____________________. Eligibility for food stamps is based on things like household income and _____________________. The average food stamp benefit is a little over _______________ per meal per person per day. Who administers the Federal Nutrition Assistance Program? The U.S. Department of _____________________. _______________ percent of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s budget is focused on Nutrition Assistance. The USDA runs _______________different Nutrition Assistant Programs in the U.S. Cheryl Jackson runs _____________________________ Food Pantry. Many children who face hunger struggle with _______________because their families rely on cheaper unhealthy food that’s usually more accessible. The New York City Coalition Against Hunger is an umbrella group for more than 1,200 _______________ and food pantries in New York City. _______________ is the most important meal of the day. Some districts monitor the grades of math tests and English tests once kids are eating breakfast and the academic performance _______________. Nationwide, _______________kids are eligible for free and reduced-priced school breakfast, but over half of them (11 million) kids are still missing out on what might be their only chance to eat the most important meal of the day. Martin O’Malley, the governor of_______________, was the first governor to commit to ending childhood hunger in his state. _______________ is the most vulnerable time for kids because the schools are closed and the programs that they usually depend on (school lunch and school breakfast) aren’t there for them.

Thank You! To learn more visit: GenerationNoKidHungry.org/fccla Questions? Melanie Barber,

Share Our Strength & FCCLA Working Together to End Childhood Hunger in America Share Our Strength: Making No Kid Hungry a Reality. Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign is at work in all 50 states through our state and city-based campaigns, nutrition education programs, and our investments in local community partners. A $1 donation to No Kid Hungry can provide a child with up to 10 nutritious meals. Since 2011, FCCLA students have nearly $200,000, supporting more than 2 million meals! Your fundraising and awareness activities are helping kids like Connor, 3, and Dakota, 9, in Arkansas. Tammy, the boys’ mom, never expected to struggle to feed her kids. But she found herself in the position of being unable to cover her bills and feed her boys after her divorce. She no longer needs to access SNAP but Dakota does get free meals at school to help stretch the budget. “I don’t want them to worry about where their food is going to come from, or if they are going to eat, or what they are going to eat, or if they are going to like it. I want them to be able to just be kids. It’s not something that they should worry about, ever, but especially as kids.” No child should grow up hungry in America, but one in five children struggles with hunger. That’s more than 16 million kids. Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign is ending childhood hunger in this nation by connecting kids in need with nutritious food and teaching their families how to cook healthy, affordable meals. We surround children with healthy food where they live, learn and play. We’re ending childhood hunger by connecting kids to effective nutrition programs like school breakfast and summer meals. This work is accomplished through the No Kid Hungry network, made up of private citizens, public officials, nonprofits, business leaders and others providing innovative hunger solutions in their communities. These public-private partnerships work together to identify and eliminate the barriers that may prevent children from accessing existing food and nutrition resources. Share Our Strength’s focus is on long-term change – the difference between just feeding a child today and making sure that children in the United Sates never go hungry. Since 2010, the No Kid Hungry campaign has connected kids struggling with hunger with more than 107 million additional meals. For more information visit us online at GenerationNoKidHungry.org/fccla.