We will kicked off the day with a conversation about the impacts of COVID-19 on child nutrition programs, especially in rural communities. No Kid Hungry and partners share the latest on what we are seeing and hearing across the country as we engage with local, state, and federal stakeholders on a coordinated response.

Speakers:

Gay Anderson, Child Nutrition Director, Brandon Valley School District & SNA National President.
Jeremy Everett, Founder and Executive Director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty

There is growing interest in working with communities to co-create solutions and build capacity to address pressing needs – from fighting hunger to delivering health care – with the voice and perspective of community members at the core. Effective co-creation and interventions start with cultural competency among providers. This session’s panelists will share successful strategies for building competency and offer examples of how they established trust in their work with diverse communities.

Watch a live discussion with non-profit and healthcare leaders from across the country who talk about what they are doing and learning as they aim to reduce food insecurity for children during this public health emergency.

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Engaging youth is more important than ever empower rural communities and address hunger. This session features Native youth leaders who have been doing anti-hunger work in their own communities across Indian Country. These leaders share their stories, including how they got involved and the challenges they faced at the outset.

How can communities best organize to build just and sustainable food systems? What structural and historic racial inequities are at play that perpetuate hunger and poverty, and how can federal programs intended to serve those in need be more racially equitable in their design and implementation? Hear from two leading thinkers as they engage in conversation around the connection between racial equity and justice in our food system, social safety net, and society at large.

Hear from program operators that are continuing to provide meals in this ever-changing climate, despite school closures, shelter-in-place policies, procurement challenges, and more. These champions share wins and lessons learned, as well as the challenges they are facing to make sure that kids still have access to nutritious meals during this pandemic.

Join this webinar to hear more about how Breakfast After the Bell can impact chronic absenteeism. Nearly 8 million students in the country are chronically absent, meaning they miss more than three weeks or more of school each year. Attendance Works, a leading national organization focused on chronic absenteeism, will discuss why chronic absenteeism is an important education and equity issue. No Kid Hungry will share new research that demonstrates Breakfast After the Bell can reduce chronic absenteeism and improve other student outcomes.

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) removes the financial burden some students face in obtaining school breakfast. However, many barriers still exist such as the time and location school breakfast is served. Breakfast After the Bell (BAB) models address these common barriers by improving access to school breakfast. Learn how CEP and BAB can be a winning combination to boost breakfast participation and generate more revenue into the school nutrition program.

Do you work for an afterschool program and want to know how you can offer meals to the kids you serve? Do you want to help bring afterschool meals to your school or community but don't know where to start? This short webinar will help point you in the right direction! It will cover some basic information about the Afterschool Meals Program to help you understand if your afterschool programs or programs in your area might be eligible, and it will give you some concrete next steps to bring you closer to serving afterschool meals.