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The Cities Combating Hunger through Afterschool and Summer Meal Programs (CHAMPS) initiative provides grants to create or expand programs providing children with afterschool and summer meals across 71 U.S. cities.

In the aftermath of a disaster, school districts can provide critical nutrition support to students through the school, summer, and afterschool nutrition programs.

Oklahoma’s most recent draft of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan takes a proactive approach towards increasing participation in the federal school, summer, and afterschool nutrition programs. Hunger Free Oklahoma actively engaged and provided feedback to the Oklahoma State Department of Education and are credited for advocating for language that includes best practices for increasing access to the child nutrition programs.

The Education for Homeless Children and Youths (EHCY) program, authorized under Title VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento Act), was created to ensure homeless students have educational rights and protections. State Education Agencies (SEA) and Local Education Agencies (LEA) must review and revise their current policies and procedures to safeguard homeless students’ access to high-quality education as part of drafting their Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued rules updating the nutrition standards for meals served through CACFP. This resource is meant to be a roadmap for sites to understand and plan for the new meal pattern and identify nutrition enrichment activities to empower families, support staff, and engage children.

The Center for American Progress, the Coalition on Human Needs, Witnesses to Hunger, the Food Research & Action Center, Feeding America, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics joined together to launch a national campaign that asked individuals across the country to share their personal experiences with the nation’s nutrition assistance programs. This booklet is a result of that call to action.

Tables showing the per meal federal reimbursement rates for the Afterschool Meal Program and Summer Food Service Program, as well as projected annual program income based
on the number of children served.

Includes text:
Protect the Federal Nutrition Programs
#SaveTheSafetyNet

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.

This poster, from Screen and Intervene: A Toolkit for Pediatricians to Address Food Insecurity, can be used in health care settings to help connect at-risk children and their families to SNAP and other federal nutrition programs.

This poster, from Screen and Intervene: A Toolkit for Pediatricians to Address Food Insecurity, can be used in health care settings to help connect at-risk children and their families to SNAP and other federal nutrition programs.

Primarily for use in health care settings, this chart includes key information on nutrition programs available to children and can be tailored to include local resources. The chart is part of Screen and Intervene: A Toolkit for Pediatricians to Address Food Insecurity.

Health care providers can use this form to write a “prescription” for nutrition resources. The form, which can be tailored to local needs, contains information on the federal nutrition programs. The form is part of Screen and Intervene: A Toolkit for Pediatricians to Address Food Insecurity.

Data on the extent of hunger and the use of nutrition programs in every state and for the nation as a whole.