Resource Library

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.

An editable pdf version of the CACFP Fact Sheet, with space provided for state information.

Monthly SNAP data reports for 2016.

Pursuant to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) final rule, effective March 7, 2017, state agencies may use a telephone interview for SNAP applicants at initial application and recertification, unless the client requests a face-to-face interview.

This annual FRAC analysis looks at school breakfast participation rates and policies to evaluate successful practices in selected school districts across the country. (Previously, this report was known as School Breakfast in America’s Big Cities.)

This annual FRAC analysis looks at school breakfast participation rates and policies to evaluate successful practices in selected school districts across the country. (Previously, this report was known as School Breakfast in America’s Big Cities.)

In this annual report tracking participation in the School Breakfast Program, FRAC compares the number of schools and the number of low-income children that participate in breakfast to those that participate in the National School Lunch Program to measure growth in the program.

In this annual report tracking participation in the School Breakfast Program, FRAC compares the number of schools and the number of low-income children that participate in breakfast to those that participate in the National School Lunch Program to measure growth in the program.