White Rock Elementary School

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
1,000
Year Founded: 
2012
About the Program: 

Our goal is to educate families staff children on a community level about healthy eating and nutrition. Our Growing Well with Mercy school program in it's 15th year and is focused on community collaboration in order to foster healthy lifestyles. Combating childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes is our goal. We now have 5 gardens and have a resource guide business plan and mission vision with plan for sustainability. We need additional funding in order to build them in underserved schools.