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In an effort to make informed program expansion and improvement decisions, the Greater Chicago Food Depository commissioned the Social IMPACT Research Center of Heartland Alliance to conduct a study of child nutrition program coverage and child nutrition and hunger in Cook County, Illinois. The study examined the geographic coverage of child nutrition programs to identify areas that have the worst program coverage and have the greatest number of unserved children. The study also took an in-depth look at the nutritional lives of children attending summer nutrition programs.

The findings indentified Chicago community areas and Cook County municipalities that are most in need of child nutrition program investments and key areas where current child nutrition programs can be strengthened to lower food insecurity and enhance the nutritional lives of school-age children. The findings and the resulting recommendations can help organizations like the Greater Chicago Food Depository make sound programmatic and expansion decisions that will best meet the nutritional and hunger needs of Cook County’s most vulnerable children.

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