“A hungry child cannot learn and they will not enjoy life”
Our mission at Whole Again is to partner with faith-based and other non-profit organizations to provide meals, educational and recreational enrichment programming for at risk youth to assist them in developing a healthy mind, body and spirit. Click here to see our results from 2020.
Our vision is to see faith-based and other non-profit organizations engaged in the community in order to make children and families whole again.
Research at Johns Hopkins University has shown that more than half of the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income children can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities. When students attend Whole Again’s Summer Food Enrichment Program, they receive the physical, mental and emotional nourishment needed to prevent the summer learning loss that blocks the college preparatory path. Our program focuses on reading, an academic area where summer learning loss disproportionately affects lower-income children, according to Duke University researchers.
Check out our academic program evaluation from 2014.
For more information and research about summer learning loss, please Read More.