The number of families struggling to put food on the table keeps growing.
The Juvenile Welfare Board says one in eight children in Pinellas County is food insecure.
“But summer is even worse, because school is not in session all summer, kids are at home more, and they don’t have school food to rely on all the way through the summer,” Juvenile Welfare Board CEO Houghton said.
Houghton says the two big gaps in resources in the summer are between the end of the school year and start of summer school, and at the end of the summer before the school year starts back up.
