Finding Food Page

Finding Food

The Hoosier Hills Food Bank serves local hunger agencies in Monroe, Brown, Lawrence, Orange, Owen, and Martin Counties. Everyday in the United States, many families have to make difficult choices when it comes to the basic necessities of food, shelter, healthcare, and childcare. Free food is available to those in need.

These agencies can help you with meals and groceries.

Monroe County Food Pantries

Monroe County Soup Kitchens

Regional Food Pantries in HHFB Service Area (Brown, Lawrence, Martin, Orange, and Owen Counties)

Food Stamp Info

County Map of HHFB Service Area

Monroe County Township Trustees

Dial 2-1-1 for Social Services:

Area 10 Agency on Aging in partnership with the United Way of Monroe County and Smithville Telephone have developed the 2-1-1 Infolink, an Information & Referral Call Center, to serve Monroe and Owen Counties. Our Call Center maintains and disseminates health and human service information that enables people to make informed choices and to improve their quality of life. Specific health and human services include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring that people have access to adequate food, shelter, clothing, and transportation
• Financial resources to meet their needs
• Consumer education and decision support
• Criminal justice or legal services
• Education and employment
• Health and mental health care including substance abuse services
• Environmental protection, both routinely and in times of disaster or other emergencies

Helpful Links

www.bloomington.in.us/~fsa Family Service Association provides services that support and strengthen the healthy quality of family life in its various styles and its many relationships.

http://cgi.hoosier.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/uwmonroe/viewentry IRIS is a listing of nonprofit human services in Monroe County.

www.bloomington.in.us/socserv This area of HoosierNet is dedicated to our area's Social Service Community, the hundreds of organizations in Monroe and surrounding counties devoted to fulfilling the needs of our community and its people.

Other Food Banks:

If you are outside our service area (County Map of HHFB Service Area), check the following web pages or phone numbers for more information.

www.gleaners.org - Indianapolis/Columbus Area

www.communityharvest.org - Fort Wayne Area

www.feedindiana.org - South Bend Area

www.curehunger.org - Anderson Area

www.food-finders.org - Lafayette Area

www.lakenetnwi.net/org/secondharvestnwi - Gary Area

www.tristatefoodbank.org - Evansville Area

www.daretocare.org - Louisville and Southeast Indiana Area

www.freestorefoodbank.org/index.html - Cincinnati and Southeast Indiana Area

http://web.indstate.edu/community/TeenTH/cathchar.html - Terre Haute Area

www.secondharvest.org - America's Second Harvest - National Network of Food Banks

Hoosier Hills Food Bank, Inc. is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization and was incorporated in 1982. We can be reached at (812) 334-8374 or hhfb@hhfoodbank.org.