H.A.P.P.Y. (Healthy Appetites Promote Positive Youth)

One in five children in Texas struggle to avoid hunger. Lack of proper nutrition adversely affects academic performance, and children in food-insecure homes are more likely to fall ill, resulting in higher school absences. 

JLTW Volunteer packing HAPPY bags to be delivered to students.

Junior League of The Woodlands’ H.A.P.P.Y. (Healthy Appetites Promote Positive Youth) program endeavors to neutralize hunger in vulnerable children by partnering with area schools in North Harris and Montgomery County to provide over 8,500 weekend backpacks of healthy, child-friendly, nonperishable, and easily consumed food over the school year. 

Junior League of The Woodlands volunteers create meal plans of healthy, child-friendly, non-perishable, and easily consumed food, fill bags with these items, and deliver them to schools to be distributed to children to consume over the weekend. 

H.A.P.P.Y. provides over 12,500 snacks for students across North Harris and Montgomery County. The continued expansion of this program allows allowed  Junior League of The Woodlands to support hungry children in a total of fifteen schools spanning four school districts during the 2022 – 2023 League year. 

2022 – 2023 HAPPY Committee