Kids Café Program

Kids Cafe is an after-school meal service program that provides food to children in Orange, Osceola, Brevard, Lake, and Seminole counties. We prepare and deliver nutritionally balanced meals on weekdays during the school year.
Kids Cafe is also a partnership. Second Harvest Food Bank provides the food, funding, and coordinator training for all Kids Cafe sites with support from corporations, foundations, and the State of Florida’s Child Care Food Program.

Partners such as community centers, churches, and Parks & Recreation centers serve meals to children every weekday during the school year.

Each center also provides a wide range of enrichment and educational activities including nutritional education. Second Harvest has been offering the Kids Café program since 1993. Since then, we’ve served almost 4 million healthy meals to kids. Currently, we serve 27 Kids Cafes in 5 counties.

Summer Food Service Program for Children and Youth

All kids 18 years of age and under, are able to receive free, nutritious meals like breakfast, lunch and snacks through the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).

The program was designed to meet the nutritional needs of children and youth during summer recess when they lack access to school cafeterias. Since we launched the program in 2008, 2.75 Million Meals have been served at 284 unique Central Florida locations.