Sentences with phrase «summer food service»

Throughout the year, this food is distributed to each of the 21 schools in the district and made available to students for lunch, breakfast, and summer food service programs.

State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson is encouraging schools, camps, Indian tribal governments, private nonprofit agencies, and municipal, state, county, and local government offices to apply to become summer food service program sponsors.

At the federal level, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing important leadership with the first - ever National Summer Food Service Program Week: «Food That's In, When School Is Out.»

Just 16 percent of eligible children in Illinois participate in the federal Summer Food Service Program, which provides daily meals at community centers and other organizations, including those served by the Greater Chicago Food Depository in Cook County and Northern Illinois Food Bank in surrounding counties.

On Monday we are particularly excited for the 2:15 p.m. education session entitled, «Feeding Children When School is Out,» which will provide an overview of the USDA Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).

For two days this week, Chrysler Group employees worked together to fill 12,000 backpacks with nutritious food to be distributed at select Detroit Summer Food Service Program sites for the remainder of the summer.

He refers to the federal government «s Summer Food Service Program for Children.

National Summer Food Service Program Week has its own resource page as well, where you will find handouts, press releases, and more information on the SFSP Program.

Virginia's Summer Food Service Program provides nutritious meals and snacks to children (ages 18 and under) in low - income areas during June, July, and August when school is not in session.

The Summer Food Service Program is a federally funded nutrition program designed to fill the nutrition gap for children when school is out.

• increase public funding for after - school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more school districts to provide after - school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated school closures; and • improve meal quality

USDA Food and Nutrition Services Program revamped their Summer Food Service Program website, and it looks terrific!

At the end of April, the USDA announced that it aims to increase meal participation in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) by between 10 and 15 million — are you adding students in your district (s) to those numbers?

While the USDA's Summer Food Service Program helps fill that gap over the summer, there are still children who go hungry.

In her research, Watkins took a closer look at the effectiveness of time and temperature control for safety in regard to foods served during the Summer Food Service Program.

Last year, No Kid Hungry's efforts served 177 million free meals at 47,816 sites across the U.S. through the Summer Food Service Program and they hope to reach many more this year.

Find meals and sites in your community, become a Summer Food Service Program sponsor, open a feeding site, volunteer, and share information with others through the USDA Food and Nutrition Services Program.

Tracee's project and poster are entitled «Time and Temperature Controls of Foods in the Summer Food Service Program.»

Beginning October 22, 2014, the USDA National Disqualified List (NDL) is accessible by independent centers and sponsors of centers in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and Summer Food Service Programs (SFSP).

At a children's breakfast at ABLA Homes» Jane Addams Center, Durbin said that only about 23 percent of the more than 660,000 Illinois children eligible for school lunch programs take part in the state's Summer Food Service Program, a continuation of the lunch program that provides nutritious meals to children ages 1 to 18 during the school year.

The drop has alarmed advocates, who said despite the educational and nutritional advantages of the Summer Food Service Program, it is not reaching the majority of children who would qualify and benefit it.

Statistics released Thursday by the coalition and the Food Research and Action Center, a Washington advocacy group, show that enrollment of Illinois children in the Summer Food Service Program declined from 106,102 to 84,529 from 2000 to 2001.

Nationally, only 16 percent of the children who receive free or reduced - price lunches during the school year participate in the summer food service program, said John Colgan, executive director of the Illinois Hunger Coalition.

The Chicago Department of Human Services will sponsor the Summer Food Service Program to ensure that children 18 and younger will be able to receive the same high quality meals provided during the school year by the National School Lunch Program.

The CHA, along with the city's Department of Human Services, are the two major Chicago sponsors for the summer food service program, which serves children 18 and under in low - income areas.

«After breakfast, some of them will just get back in line and wait two hours for lunch,» said Francine Washington, a Stateway Gardens resident who is director of the CHA's summer food service program.

The Act has far - reaching impact, beyond school lunch, to the WIC, Child and Adult Care Food, and Summer Food Service programs, and others.

Through the USDA's Summer Food Service Program, children from low - income families can get a nutritious and delicious meal in the summertime.

And during the summer, USDA's Summer Food Service Program ensures that low - income children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session.

While with Mathematica Policy Research, he wrote or contributed programming for U.S. Department of Agriculture reports on the participation trends and household characteristics of SNAP participants, and also worked on national evaluations of SNAP demonstration pilots and the Summer Food Service Program.

The petition asks Congress and the Obama administration to ensure that Chinese - processed chicken is not included in the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service... Continue Reading

SERVING SUMMER MEALS IN HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS: An implementation guide that provides basic information on the impact of food insecurity on health and the cost of health care, an explanation of the USDA's Summer Food Service Program with examples and steps for exploring implementation in new hospitals and healthcare settings.

Participate in available federal school meal programs, including the School Breakfast Program, National School Lunch Program (including after - school snacks), Summer Food Service Program, Fruit and Vegetable Snack Program, and Child and Adult Care Food Program (including suppers).

Information from the school districts indicate that only 4 - 6 % of local students have access to Summer Food Service Programming through the school districts to help respond to this seasonal nutritional deficit.

«The critically important free or reduced - price school breakfast and lunch programs, and summer food service program, are sometimes the only food some children are getting,» Charles says.

The Summer Nutrition Programs, which include the Summer Food Service Program and the National School Lunch Program, should be filling the food gap for low - income children who rely on school breakfast and lunch during the school year to help keep hunger at bay.

The lowest hanging fruit (pun intended) was to help promote and strengthen the existing child nutrition programs — Summer Food Service, School Breakfast, School Lunch, and the After - School Supper Programs.

What a way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Summer Food Service Program!

The funds were awarded through the School Breakfast Program and Summer Food Service Program Start - up or Expansion Grant; the 2013 National School Lunch Program Equipment Assistance Grant; and the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Grant.

USDA Food and Nutrition Services Program has set up an extensive list of links and services dedicated to their Summer Food Service Program.

A student at Kansas State University, Watkins» poster is entitled, «Time & Temperature Control of Foods in the Summer Food Service Program».

According to the Summer Food Service program's table of statistics, the program served 132 million meals last year at over 34,000 sites around the country.

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.

A provision included in the $ 1.1 - trillion spending bill Congress passed last week and which is now headed to the president's desk prevents poultry processed in China from being used in the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service Program (Section 736 of Division A).

«The Summer Food Service Program helps build on the Department's ongoing efforts to ensure that all students have healthy meals, not only when they're in school, but all year round.»