Families Online Magazine

"This summer, nearly 15 million school children in this country will go without the lunchtime meals provided to them during the school year," said John J. Mack, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley.

During the school year, more than half of the 31 million children who participate in the National School Lunch Program are low-income. Last year, the Department of Agriculture's Summer Food Service Program for Children (SFSP) provided nearly 130 million meals to 2.1 million children across the country. The program reimburses organizations for meals served, but often does not cover the infrastructure or programming costs organizations incur when operating a summer program for children.

"The Summer Food Service Program is a vital nutrition resource during the months students are not in school," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "We know that there are many children who need nutritious food but don't have access to a program in their area. We need more organizations to sponsor sites and sponsors need additional resources from the community in order to succeed in reaching children who need meals. Ongoing partnerships like this one are key to making sure our children have healthy meals during the school year, during the summer months, and all year long."

Boys & Girls Clubs of America, through its summer programs and network of more than 4,300 community-based Clubs, will distribute meals to hungry children.

"We are extremely grateful to the Morgan Stanley Foundation for their generous support that will ensure the young people we serve this summer will not go hungry," said Roxanne Spillett, president and CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America. "The economic downturn that has impacted the entire country has been deeply felt by our Clubs, and many summer food programs have been placed in jeopardy. Hopefully others will follow Morgan Stanley's lead."

Reclaiming Our Children: Exposing the Nets That Snare Them by honored author, lecturer and social critic Robby G. Dixon is a call-to-action for our nation's youth

Theft, armed robbery, gang warfare and school shootings continue to permeate our society, and young people are paying the price with incarceration. With a timely message on today's critical topics, such as parenting and religious values, Robby Dixon takes the literary world by storm and with shock value in his first book - Reclaiming Our Children: Exposing the Nets That Snare Them - http://www.reclaimingourchildren.com.

He gives a universal call for an immediate "transformation in our nation's consciousness" to restore understanding of our youth before it's too late. Through a discussion of the spiritual and mental influences on self-image, the author presents the path to physical imprisonment as beginning with higher forms of imprisonment being spiritual and mental resulting in physical incarceration. Dixon argues that not only is this behavior preventable, but through the power of positive imagery, understanding self-perception and re-focusing the powers of desire and will even the recidivism rate may be reduced.

Reclaiming Our Children offers a fascinating look into what comprises good households verses conscious households and how the later serves as a transformative power for the lives of our children. Also learn how impoverished neighborhoods are linked to impoverished mindsets and sustained through the process of mind conditioning which breeds thoughts of self acceptance. Reclaiming Our Children also discusses how to unlock the transformative power that will rescind the power of negative thoughts and produce positive, productive fruit in the lives of our children far into adulthood breaking cycles that have plagued far too many generations of our youth.

Asking crucial questions, Reclaiming Our Children reveals the socio-psychological-
spiritual dynamics, which expose, influence and consequently guide our youth to deviant
behavior. "My first-hand research dissects societal reasons for this rampant distressed
conduct and the certain path to imprisonment if left unrecognized," says Dixon.

Texas author Robby Dixon has spent half a lifetime writing and essentially living his
book to help curtail the tangible cause of this effect; the growing epidemic of senseless
criminal conduct and physical incarceration. Citing extensive research based on
counseling families and prison inmates, Dixon gives startling evidence that prison serves
as a 'sinister profit-generator', which conditions inmates into revolving doors, returning
them to prisons over and over. "I have personally witnessed those who have left prison
and have returned, astonishingly, some within as little as two weeks' time. My research has revealed that some leave and then return two, three and four times, all within the same year," says Dixon.

As an activist for the well being of children and young adults using a Judeo-Christian perspective, his educational blogs appear on his Reader's Community Weblog - http://robbydixon.wordpress.com .

About the author:

Robby Dixon lectures and holds workshops at schools, churches, prisons, libraries and
other organizations in Dallas and Houston, and throughout Northern California. In 2009,
topics of Reclaiming Our Children will be used as the basis for curriculum for a high
school age workshop at the Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) at Missouri
University of Science & Technology. Robby Dixon resides in Corinth, Texas with his
wife and son.