{"id":113038,"date":"2022-07-20T23:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113038"},"modified":"2022-07-20T23:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:47:36","slug":"free-summer-meals-for-kids-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113038","title":{"rendered":"Free Summer Meals for Kids in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Allentown, PA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Several Allentown schools, hospitals and community organizations are offering free summer meals for youth ages 18 and under as part the federal Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), which ensures that low-income children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session.<\/p>\n<p>Locations of the Allentown drop-in meal sites are below. Dates and times can be found on the attached mailer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network Sacred Heart Campus Cafeteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lehigh Valley Hospital at 17th St School of Nursing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greater Valley YMCA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Caring Place<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Central Elementary School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harrison Morton Middle School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Mountain Middle School\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly about 10% of eligible children who receive meals during the school year receive summer meals,\u201d said Tina Amato, Nutrition and Physical Activity Manager at the Allentown Health Bureau. \u201cWe encourage families and kids who struggle with food dollars and food insecurity to come to a meal site close to you for a free meal.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the drop-in locations for free summer meals, Allentown\u2019s playground program offers meals provided by the Allentown School District.\u00a0 Children who register for the free Summer Playground Program also receive meals.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nGenesis Ortega<br \/>\nCommunications Manager<br \/>\nOffice of the Mayor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov\">http:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown, PA\u00a0\u2013 Several Allentown schools, hospitals and community organizations are offering free summer meals for youth ages 18 and under as part the federal Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113038\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free Summer Meals for Kids in Allentown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/free-kids-meals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}