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FRAC has developed this toolkit to share outreach strategies and communication resources to help school districts and community partners ensure families return school meals applications.
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Households in rural counties (14.4%) participate in SNAP more often than those located in small town counties (13.8%) and metropolitan counties (11.3%), according to FRAC analysis. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s first line of defense against hunger and a key weapon for assisting low-income Americans and low-income communities.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requires states to describe how they will serve groups with potential access problems in their P-EBT state plan for the 2020–2021 school year. This document includes strategies states can implement to ensure all eligible children can access P-EBT this school year.
Use this Best Practice - Report
The report focuses on total meals served in April 2020 in the school and out-of-school time nutrition programs to explore the impact of COVID-19 on school, summer, and afterschool meals program operations. It also analyzes the reach of free and reduced-price meals to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on low-income children.
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