Food | Hunger
- HUNGER COALITION
- 208-788-0121
- 121 Honeysuckle Street Bellevue, Idaho 83313
- PURPOSE: Anyone who is hungry can get a punch card by calling the Hunger Coalition. After an initial intake/screening, individuals are given a punch card with four punches. They are not eligible to receive another card for two months from the date of the initial card unless they are eligible following a case management appointment. For each punch, they are given a box of food based on the family size that will provide food for several days.
- Mobile Food Bank – Providing wholesome, nutritious foods to the hungry in our community on a weekly basis year-round.
- Backpack Club – Sending children home from school on the weekends with easy-to-prepare, healthy foods to supplement insufficient daily nutritional needs.
- Summer Food Program – Serving free meals to children under 18 during the summertime.
- Infant Formula Initiative – Providing critical supplemental nutrition to infants in need.
- Client Empowerment Services: Through individual meetings with clients in a private and secure setting, they can address the individual needs and circumstances unique to each person. Clients receive a Food Bank Punch Card that entitles them to a pre-determined quantity of food every week.
- Clients may attend any Food Bank location but are limited to one per week.
- Clients continue to meet with our staff while receiving food assistance in an effort to set personal goals, establish functional family budgets, introduce educational and employment opportunities, and provide the necessary support and guidance.
- Area Served: Blaine County
- FREE COMMUNITY DINNERS
- St. Charles Church in Hailey:
- Dinner: Mondays and Thursdays:
- 5:30 – 6:30
- 208-788-3024
- Dinner: Mondays and Thursdays:
- Souper Supper -Joan Anderson, Coordinator
- 208-726-3574
- Big Wood Presbyterian Church in Ketchum:
- Public Dinner:
- Wednesdays: 6:00 – 7:00 pm
- 208-726-5123, ext.4
- Mobile Food Bank (Hunger Coalition):
- Wednesdays: 3:30 – 5:30 pm
- Public Dinner:
- PURPOSE: To provide free wholesome dinners to the hungry in our community on a weekly basis year-round.
- St. Charles Church in Hailey:
- MEALS ON WHEELS
- 208-788-3468
- AREA SERVED: Blaine Co. Senior Center Sun Valley, Ketchum, Hailey, Bellevue.
- PURPOSE: To deliver meals to the elderly.
- SERVICES: Nutritious meals delivered to the elderly who cannot provide their own meals or who need a special diet.
- ELIGIBILITY: Elderly are not able to prepare their own meals or are in need of a special diet. Doctors sometimes recommend persons.
- FEES: Vary–contact office for further information.
- HOW TO APPLY: Contact the office.
- SOURCE OF FUNDS: Federal funding–Office on Aging.
- SOUPER SUPPER
- 208-726-5227 – Lynn Flickinger
- St. Charles Church 311 South 1st. Ave. Hailey, ID 83333
- SERVICE: Dinners, no charge for the public.
- Mondays and Thursdays 5:30 – 6:30
