As someone who grew up with financial challenges, Danielle Findlay understands the importance of school meal programs – p articularly those that provide universal access.

“I was a kid that probably would have benefited from going to a nutrition program or a breakfast program at that time, but I didn’t want to because, at that time, they were more programs for kids that (needed it) where now it’s just basically, ‘here’s a some nourishment at school that’s open to everyone,’ and that stigma is kind of gone,” Findlay said.

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Findlay, the supervisor of community relations for the Victorian Order of Nurses’ Ontario Student Nutrition Program, is highlighting how the need for these kinds of nutritional programs is continuing to grow.

“We know that there’s a disparity in inc

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