INTEGRIS

From Page 1 program has accomplished through the years es exists to ensure that no baby goes hungry. Four times per year, babies and toddlers under 4 years old can visit Infant Crisis Services to receive a week’s worth of formula, food, diapers, and other life sustaining necessities. Statistically, 1 in 4 babies born in Oklahoma is born into poverty, putting them at risk of malnutrition. With 80% of brain development happening in the first three years of life, even one missed meal can have detrimental impacts on a baby’s physical and cognitive growth.

Infant Crisis Services has ensured full bellies and dry diapers for over 350,000 infants and toddlers since 1984. Clients can receive services at their office in Oklahoma City, or at any of the 54 partner locations across 23 Oklahoma counties their BabyMobile program serves.

“Infant Crisis Services is humbled to be a recipient of such vital funding from Chick-filA,” said Co-Founder and Executive Director Miki Farris. “By supporting our unique BabyMobile program, Chick-fil-A will play a major role in ensuring that our state’s rural communities have access to life-sustaining formula and diapers. The tiniest victims of

“I have been grateful to see over 2,000 patients be able to avoid or stop dialysis and live normal productive lives,” says Samara. “In the last 15 years, I have even been able to work poverty now have a chance to thrive, and their caregivers can rest easy, knowing that their little ones will be fed and diapered.” with my son, Dr. Shea Samara, and Dr. Jose El-Amm, who is the medical director of kidney transplant and like a son to me, which has been both professionally and personally fulfilling.”

Hearts for Hearing and Infant Crisis Services are two of 46 True Inspiration Awards grant recipients in 2023 that are receiving a collective $5 million. To be selected for a grant, organizations must work to address key issues that align with Chick-fil-A's corporate social responsibility priorities: Caring for People, Caring for Others through Food, Caring for our Communities and Caring for our Planet, a new category added this year.