Policies

Food & Toiletries - You may utilize the Food Pantry once a month.

Clothing – You may shop for clothing 2 times per month.

Housewares – You may shop for housewares 2 times per month.

Furniture & Appliances – 2 large items per household per year.

Remember when shopping, if you don’t need something or already

have enough at home, please leave it for another household. If you have

items to share, feel free to donate them during pantry hours. Help us

help as many as possible, by taking only what is essential. Thanks.

If the pantry/warehouse must close due to adverse weather, we will contact our volunteers by phone and/or e-mail. We will close when the Brown County Schools close due to weather. On Saturdays, if we close due to weather, we will put a message on our telephone recording (812-988-8821).

In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.

Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.

To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:

(1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;

(2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or

(3) email: program.intake@usda.gov.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

This policy of the SVdP Indianapolis Council, which includes our Brown County Conference, aims to minimize the risk of abuse or neglect to the people we serve. The policy seeks to  safeguard children and adults who could be vulnerable to abuse or neglect by reason of their age, physical or mental disability, poverty, or reliance on support services.

Volunteers, (which is everyone) working at our Brown County Conference of SVdP, each year must read and agree to the content of the following Civil Rights Overview. Then please sign the acknowledgment section that accompanies the copy of this document kept at the pantry.

• Masking is recommended if you don't feel well.
• Folks with active symptoms of a possibly transmissible illness who feel that they have to  enter the pantry should please wear a good, properly fitting mask over their nose and month while inside.
• Thanks for helping us keep our pantry open and our volunteers and visitors healthy.