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Protect the Federal Nutrition Programs
#SaveTheSafetyNet

This report provides a status report on community eligibility implementation nationally and across the states and the District of Columbia in the 2016–2017 school year, based on school and school district participation and enrollment in community eligibility schools.

Child and Adult Care Food Program: Average Daily Participation, Meals Served, and Cash Reimbursements, FY 2016

This toolkit provides guidance to principals in how to effectively partner with their school nutrition department to bring “grab-and-go” breakfast, second-chance breakfast, or breakfast in the classroom programs to their schools.

Information for sponsors and supporters on establishing logistics for this year’s Summer Nutrition Programs. Part of FRAC’s Summer Nutrition Programs Implementation Calendars and Guide.

Summer programs that achieved gold and silver standards of excellence.

Gold, Silver and Bronze criteria in chart form.

Includes Gold, Silver and Bronze model menus for hot and cold foods.

Includes information on: Ways to Use the Summer Food Standards; Levels of Excellence; Evaluate Sites; Acknowledge Quality Sites; Build on Success: Take Summer Food Sites to the Next Level; Levels of Excellence checklists.

FRAC and the American Academy of Pediatrics created this resource to help pediatricians and their practice teams screen for food insecurity, connect families and nutrition resources, and support national and state policies increasing access to adequate healthy food for all children and their families.

Umbrella sponsors may be local government agencies, school districts, food banks, youth-serving organizations, and other private nonprofits. They fill a critical need by overseeing multiple, and often smaller, afterschool enrichment sites that need administrative support to participate in the Afterschool Meal Program.

Advocates can expand the Afterschool Meal Program and obtain federal reimbursement using proven outreach strategies, including promoting the program, building relationships with afterschool and out-of-school time provider networks, connecting sites to available community resources, and working closely with the state agency.

Summer Nutrition Programs State Mandate Chart

Includes information on Congressional action needed for: SNAP/Food Stamps, The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), Support Policies to Enable Easier Food Donation, Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP).

Includes information on how Congress should maintain its historically bipartisan commitment to these nutrition safety net programs: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Child Nutrition Appropriations, Senior Nutrition Programs, The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), Congressional Hunger Center.