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Blooming Prairie Backpack Program
Voucher Program
BP Elementary School Snack Cupboard
Blooming Prairie Police Department Voucher Program
Starting in 21-22 school year to May 2025 we operated a food pantry / snack cupboard at our Blooming Prairie High School. Unfortunately due to misuse of this program, in the summer of 2025, we removed the food pantry / snack cupboard and are finding other ways to get food to our most hungry students. We still operate a snack cupboard at the Blooming Prairie Elementary School where teachers are able to get snacks for students who may be hungry throughout the day. Our coordinator often realized while substitute teaching that students were hungry either from a missed meal, etc. Our snack cupboard at the Blooming Prairie Elementary School helps alleviate some of the monies that our teachers spend each year on their students and allows for students to have a snack when hungry.
Our snack cupboard at the Blooming Prairie Elementary School began in the 2019-2020 school year as a way to get food to students who were hungry throughout the day.
In the fall of 2020 our program started sending home food vouchers with students. 5 vouchers are currently issued during the school year to each parent and/or guardian allowing families to purchase 1 loaf of bread, 1 dozen eggs, 1 gallon of milk and up to $5 of fresh fruit / vegetables from Vandal's Family Market. Our envelope printing services are donated through KIK Marketing as well as Vandal's covering a percentage of the cost of each redeemed food voucher. The monetary donations our program receives each year helps our backpack program operate the voucher program. Our vouchers are also sent home in the summer to families that opt in to receive them.
During the 23-24 school year and the 25-26 school year an additional voucher was sent home during the month of December to help our local enrolled families stretch their grocery dollars a bit further. Our Blooming Prairie Backpack Program Coordinator is someone who has experienced food insecurity early in her married life knows how much these added vouchers for food help out our area enrolled families.
