Need help figuring out if a CACFP day care home is area eligible according to USDA’s averaging policy? Use Share Our Strength’s new Averaged Eligibility Map! Developed in collaboration with Esri, this map will show you if the site’s census block group meets the 50% free and reduced price eligibility threshold when averaged with adjacent block groups.
We have long known that losing access to school meals can have a lasting effect on kids’ lives, but what is that really costing families and communities?
Set up kids for success this year by offering nutritious, free meals after school. One in five children in our country struggles with hunger, and a quarter of low-income parents worry that their kids don’t have enough to eat between lunch and breakfast the next day. Despite the need, new analysis from the No Kid Hungry Center for Best Practices shows that there are less than four afterschool meals served for every one hundred subsidized lunches served during the school year.
The Share Our Strength Advocacy Team reflects on the recently concluded 2016 state legislative sessions. Looking together at trends and outcomes, this webinar will celebrate state policy successes that will help to end child hunger while discussing challenges and setbacks posed by state legislative action.
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We invite congressional, state, and local leaders to learn more about the federal summer meals program and how it helps to meet the needs of hungry kids in communities across the country during the summer time. This webinar will help its audience better understand how elected leaders and government offices can help to promote the program and ensure more kids in their districts have access to nutrition and enrichment programs all summer long.
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Whether you’re brand new to the CACFP Afterschool Meals Program or you’ve been doing it for years, come learn how to start a robust program or grow participation in your existing program by 50% or more! The No Kid Hungry Innovation Team tested two new models to increase participation in afterschool meals based at schools. We’ll share the results and what it means for you. This webinar is most appropriate for schools, sponsoring organizations with school sites, or state agency representatives.
What can you do this summer to get kids interested in attending meal programs – and excited to keep coming back? Combining enrichment activities with summer meals can create meaningful, fun experiences that nourish minds and bodies. Learn about a new USDA toolkit to help boost programs, how low-cost books from First Book are being used in combination with summer meals and how a sponsor is using SNAP-Ed funding to create new summer meal sites with nutrition education programming.
Cooking Matters at the Store is an interactive shopping tour that teaches low-income families four key food shopping skills: buying fruits and vegetables on a limited budget, identifying whole grains, comparing unit prices and reading food labels. Share Our Strength collaborates with varied community partners and dedicated individuals to deliver this program in grocery stores across the country and help families make the most of their food dollars.
Hospitals play many roles to facilitate health in communities – and hosting Summer Meals sites is one more! In a few communities across the country, hospitals have started serving meals to kids through SFSP. Join us for a webinar to learn more about this promising practice, hear from hospitals who have developed summer programs and get practical advice for starting a site in your community.
When state legislatures start new sessions, there are new opportunities to take action to improve policies for children. Whether you are looking to educate lawmakers, build new relationships or push specific legislation, this webinar discusses the basics of advocacy and what is working across the country.