Healthy Directions Inc.

Healthy Directions Inc. is a woman owned, non-profit organization that provides food services to children and impaired adults through federal grant programs. Through subawards from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, Healthy Directions supplies meals and administers food programs serving vulnerable populations enrolled in daycare, afterschool, and emergency shelter settings.

The federal grants under which Healthy Directions performs these services include the Child and Adult Care Food Program, which provides meals to child and adult day cares, and the National School Lunch Program, which serves free and reduced-price lunches to low-income students. As a subrecipient to the state education department, Healthy Directions helps operate these programs by submitting claims for meal reimbursements and receiving administrative funds to run sponsored food programs at daycares and shelters. They have also received subawards under the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program to distribute fresh produce in elementary schools. Across all these programs, Healthy Directions supplies the food products and administers the provision of meals and snacks to children and impaired adults enrolled in care programs funded by federal nutrition grants.