Backpack Program

Caring Kitchen partners with Urbana Schools to provide kid-friendly snacks and food items for those unfortunate children who have no food to eat over the weekend. Since the program's inception, the number of children each year has fluctuated between 190 and 260. If you would like to help with this program, please donate kid-friendly foods, such as:​

• Individual cereals
• Individual packs of oatmeal
• Pudding
• Applesauce
• Fruit cups
• Breakfast bars
• Boxed juices
• Ramen noodles
• Microwaveable Mac and Cheese

​Donations accepted at The Caring Kitchen (300 Miami St., Urbana) on behalf of the Backpack Program.

Family Night

We encourage you to spend some quality time with your family while making dinner for our residents and community at the Caring Kitchen. Please call ahead to make arrangements.

Organization Night

We encourage any organization or business that need to do a community service project to spend an evening making dinner or a morning making breakfast for our residents and community at the Caring Kitchen. Please call ahead to make arrangements.

Thanksgiving Celebration

On Thanksgiving Day, The Caring Kitchen, in partnership with the Federation of Churches in St. Paris, serve all of Champaign County Thanksgiving lunch. Delivery available. Please call ahead if you are interested in volunteering. We will need drivers, servers, cooks and clean-up.