Community Action Partnership of Kern

Emergency Food Assistance Program
Operating through 37USDA commodity sites and over 70 pantries the Food Bank provided (provides) emergency food assistance throughout Kern County to food insecure residents.

Senior Food Program
The CAPK Senior Food Program is a USDA-funded program designed to provide low-income seniors with a 30-lb box of healthy food items such as milk, cereal, protein, fruits and vegetables each month.

Snack Attack
The Food Bank provides healthy foods to after-school programs. With this program we are able to serve over 2,500 kids on a monthly basis at Corporation for Better Housing, Friendship House, CBET, and Stay Focused.


Central Kitchen
The Central Kitchen operates the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), a federally funded program that provides meals and snacks served to children in child care settings. The Central Kitchen plans, prepares, delivers food and janitorial supplies to all child development centers operated by CAPKs Head Start/State Child Development Division. The program also prepares meals for Head Start field trips and social events.