WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - The Wausau Police Department Chief is urging the community to continue support to a program that provides food to students over the weekend despite an investigation into the program's finances.

Blessings in Backpacks ensure students at Wausau and D.C. Everest school districts have enough to eat over the weekends. Students receive a backpack each Friday with easy-to-prepare meals and snacks. The backpacks include two breakfast items, two snacks, and two lunches of easy-to-prepare food items such as oatmeal, granola bars, and mac and cheese. They then return the backpacks on Monday mornings.

The project relies heavily on volunteers and donations.

The message follows a release from the BA & Esther Greenheck Foundation. Thursday, the organization stated it recently learned of some financial discrepancies surrounding the Blessings in a Backpack program in Wausau.

The release read in part: As a result, the BA & Esther Greenheck Foundation and the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin have partnered with volunteers who previously assisted the local Blessings in a Backpack program to ensure that food filled backpacks continue to be delivered to the children of the Wausau and DC Everest school districts at this time.

No other details about the nature of the investigation were released. NewsChannel 7 will continue to follow this developing story.