Expanding Your Reach: Planning Your Rural Non-Congregate Summer Meal Service

Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) and NSLP Seamless Summer Option (SSO) sponsors can now operate non-congregate meal programs in rural communities without access to a congregate meal site. The ability to provide meals to-go greatly increases children's access to summer meals, especially for those in very rural areas. 

Watch this webinar, where  No Kid Hungry experts, school district, and community sponsors share their experiences and best practices in maximizing the impact of rural congregate meal service, including:

• Review of guidelines and regulations for rural non-congregate summer meal service.
• Tutorial of No Kid Hungry and USDA mapping tools you can use to identify potential rural service areas, sites, and partners.
• Steps sponsors can take now to plan an effective summer meal service.
• Operational considerations when selecting your sites and determining your program model
• Ideas for various program model styles, including mobile meals and grab-and-go.

Whether you are an experienced sponsor, or considering starting your first rural non-congregate site, be sure to join us to gather best practices and tools to kick off planning for your rural non-congregate summer meals program for 2025.