Our mission at Northmen Den Youth Services is to nourish our neediest students by providing food, tutoring, and mentoring in a manner that respects dignity and individuality, while sustaining dreams. This week, April 25 – 29, 2022 is recognized as Every Kid Healthy Week – a week that highlights the great efforts to improve the health and wellness of students and the link between nutrition, physical activity and learning. We are excited to kick off Every Kid Healthy Week!

Northmen Den Youth Pantries is launching this Sandwich Lunch Brigade in partnership with Parkside Deli, Therapy Solutions and Monarch Workforce. Northmen Den Youth Pantries is adding Concord Academy of Petoskey as its sixth school-based youth pantry to help students eligible for Free Lunch or Reduced Costs. Concord Academy has chosen

What does it really mean to be hungry?  For most of us, there is a point in the day where we have a craving for something edible and our bodies react to the pleasure that comes with putting something deliciously familiar in our mouths and enjoying the taste of heaven

When I was growing up, my parents took a “divide and conquer” approach to helping me with homework. Mom helped with English and History, Dad helped with Math and Science. This worked rather well for a while, but eventually Mom didn’t know how to write a literary analysis and Dad

One important misconception that teachers must address is the notion that children in poverty do not come from loving homes. It is easy, sometimes, to fall into a savior-complex where we believe it is our responsibility to save children from the horrors of their homelife. However, this way of thinking

Whether it is an abundance of pride and a lack of humility, or whether it’s just plain negligence and abuse, our children are constantly being placed in the position to keep food insecurities at home a secret. Either way, there is a generation’s old stigma that has been conceived in