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Child Nutrition Network News
Gearing Up for Summer Food    

 

Are you thinking about becoming a new Summer Food Service Program sponsor? Or are you a returning sponsor? Remember to register for a New York State Education Department (NYSED) training. Read the memo for dates and locations throughout the state. 

The SFSP 2012 reimbursement rates are now available. 

Read a memo from the NYSED listing open summer food site eligible areas. 
 
Summer Food Target Mapper: Newly updated based on 2010 Census data! An online mapping feature to help determine open site eligible areas.  Scroll to bottom and click on "Summer Food Target Mapper".

Register for the latest Summer Meals Matter conference call  hosted by the Food Research and Action Center. All about recruiting new meal sites, March 6th at 1 pm.     
March 5-9 is National School Breakfast Week! 

 

Next week, schools across New York State and the nation will celebrate how eating breakfast at school helps students be successful. Learn more from the School Nutrition Association's "School Breakfast - Go for Gold" campaign. 

 

"Western New York Breakfast Tour and Info Session": If you're in the Rochester area, please join us for a free event on March 8. Tour a breakfast in the classroom program and interact with a panel of school professionals to learn how your school can make sure more students are fueled with morning nutrition. Visit our blog for more information and to RSVP. 

 

Think Breakfast!: Attention elementary school teachers! The New York State Education Department has free educational materials to help promote school breakfast as part of their Think Breakfast! campaign. Download materials for this year and place your order for next year online.
President Obama's Budget Protects Safety Net Programs

According to the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), President Obama's FY2013 budget protects and proposes to strengthen the nation's nutrition safety net for the many Americans who continue to struggle with hunger, lost jobs, and reduced wages.

Chief among his proposals are: restoration of cuts to SNAP (food stamps) benefits made in the 2010 Child Nutrition Reauthorization and scheduled to take place in FY 2013; and the suspension for a fiscal year of time limits on benefits for certain unemployed, working-age, low-income adults without dependents. Learn more on the FRAC website.  
For Schools: Community Eligibility Option
The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 established a new option for schools in high-need areas to serve universally-free meals to all students. 

The Community Eligibility Option (CEO) provides schools with an alternative to collecting individual household free and reduced-price meal applications. Instead, schools can use a formula based on their direct certification rates. 

New York State is applying to be a selected state to offer this option in SY 2012-2013. If your school district is interested in applying to use the CEO, please read the NYSED memo with Q&A attachment.  
Direct Certification Matching Process Survey
Attention food service directors:
Hunger Solutions New York and the New York School Nutrition Association are looking for input and feedback from schools about the new data matching/direct certification matching process for free school meals.  We'd like to hear from you! 

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