Meals, Brown Bag Program (for Seniors/Elders/Disabled) available at Second Harvest Food Bank of San Joaquin and Stanislaus Counties

The Senior Brown Bag Program is designed to deliver bags of supplemental groceries to low-income senior citizens throughout San Joaquin County. The Food Bank has been delivering this service for over thirty years and has extensive experience in the administration of this program. Working with the Department of Aging and Community Services. The Food Bank is presently serving over 2,600 low-income seniors at twenty sites located throughout the county. Each site receives a delivery of supplemental groceries twice each month. In the 2006-2007 program year, the Food Bank distributed over 986,000 pounds of supplemental groceries to these program recipients, at a value of over 1.4 million dollars.

The Food Bank believes that this program enhances senior's lifestyles in two major ways. First, through this program we are able to assist low-income seniors in balancing their daily dietary needs by providing nutritious supplemental groceries that they may not otherwise have. Secondly, by providing these low-income seniors with these groceries we hope to allow them to maximize their limited dollars towards other living expenses such as rent and medical needs.

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