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USDA and Food For Children Sites

"Kids can't learn when they are hungry. Good nutrition helps adults and seniors to be healthy." --Betsy Cameron, Donor

To qualify to receive USDA and Food For Children food, families or individuals must certify that they live in the area served by the distribution and have incomes below levels to the right. For Food For Children, they must certify that minor children live in their household.

Call the Community Food Hotline at (831) 662-0991 for the most up-to-date dates and times of USDA and Food For Children distributions in Santa Cruz County.

Our current USDA distributions sites are located at:

Ben Lomond
Davenport
Grey Bears
Mid-County
Outreach Food for Work
Santa Cruz
Watsonville

Here is a list of current Food For Children sites:

Alianza School

Amesti School

Ann Soldo School

Branciforte Head Start

Calabasas School

Casa del Alfarero

Church of the Nazarene

Corralitos Creek

Emerald Bay/Villa San Carlos

Emerald Hill

Evergreen Apartments

Freedom School

Gault School

Green Valley Christian Church

La Casita Head Start

Lincoln Square Apartments

Live Oak Resource Center

Loaves & Fishes

Lutheran Community Church

Martinelli Head Start

Murphy's Camp

Natural Bridges Head Start

Northgate Apartments

Nueva Vista Apartments

Parkhurst Terrace

Radcliff School

Redwood Mountain State Preschool

Rolling Hills Head Start

Salud para la Gente

San Andreas Housing Complex

Sea Pine Apartments

Seacliff Highlands

Starlight School

Stone Creek Apartments

Sunny Meadows

Sycamore Commons

Terry J. Children Head Start

The Farm

Tierra Linda

UCSC Family Student Housing

United Methodist Church

Valley Churches United

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Villa La Posada

Villas del Paraiso

Vista Verde Townhouses

Watsonville Seventh-Day Adventists

WIC Watsonville