Cindy Long Child Nutrition Division Director Food and Nutrition ...

Cindy Long
Child Nutrition Division Director
Food and Nutrition Service, USDA

FY10 Appropriations- Update
Program Access
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
Farm to School Initiative/Geographic
Preference
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FY10 Appropriations Update

Funding: $25 million to eligible SFAs that
◦ Participate in the NSLP
◦ Did not receive in FY09
Goal: Purchase equipment that improves
◦ Quality, food safety, overall energy efficiency
Grant Awards: SAs will distribute funds using
a competitive application process
◦ Developed under ARRA, or
◦ A newly-developed competitive application process
Possible legislative fix in future

Funding: $85 Million
Goal: Develop and test methods of providing
access to food for children during summer
months
Solicitation expected to be released this
week.
This summer’s demonstrations are the first
phase of a multi-year effort examining access
and food insecurity in the summer months.

Funding: $8 Million
Competitive grants to SAs to improve health
and nutrition of children in child care settings
◦ SAs must award at least 50% of grant funds to
CACFP institutions
◦ Request for Applications will be released this month
◦ Expect 120-day application deadline
Webinar for State CACFP Agencies
◦ Held on January 19

Funding: $22 Million
◦ Assist States in making technology improvements
◦ Provide technical assistance to LEAs
Grants must be targeted to States with lowest
rates of children directly certified
Conference calls to determine best approach

Direct Certification in the National School
Lunch Program: State Implementation
Progress
◦ published November 2009
Assesses effectiveness of direct certification
efforts made by States and locals
2008-2009 median direct certification rate of
SNAP-participating children was 72%,
compared to 68% in prior year

FY 10 Appropriations added 4 States to At-
Risk Supper Program
◦ District of Columbia
◦ Connecticut
◦ Nevada
◦ Wisconsin
14 States with CACFP Supper Authority

Combat pay
◦ Excluded from income
Weighted averaging waiver
◦ Extended through FY 2010
Food Safety Inspection Report
◦ Extended through FY 2010

Extend categorical eligibility to additional
children in a household
Unemployment Insurance (UI) letters
Encourage SAs to provide October Free and
Reduced Price data to CACFP State agencies
as soon as possible

Allocation Timeframes – July and October
◦ SY10-11: $101million
◦ Additional $9.8 million from prior year funds
◦ Notification of upcoming school year allocation sent
to States on February 22, 2010
States must notify their regional offices by
June 1 of the portion of the July allocation
they want to receive.

Elementary schools with highest free and
reduced price enrollment receive priority
School Selection
◦ States must target neediest schools
◦ States must actively conduct outreach to these
schools .
Participating elementary schools must plan to
initiate the Program when classes resume.
Elementary schools only
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FFVP regulation under development
Web-based Toolkit coming soon
◦ Prototype presentations, podcasts, fact sheets
Evaluation
◦ Data collection will be moved to the beginning of
next school year.
◦ Participating States were notified of this change on
February 25, 2010.
◦ New sample of schools will need to be drawn.

F2S site to provide information on
◦ Legislative history
◦ How to start a Farm to School Program
◦ How to purchase locally
◦ Policies
◦ Solutions to overcoming barriers
◦ Food safety
◦ Progress on USDA F2S Team Initiative
1st F2S Webinar
◦ March 10, 2010 at 3:00 pm EST
◦ Registration information on F2S site and CND
PartnerWeb
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Amendment made to 9(j) of NSLA (Sec. 4302
of P.L. 110-246)
Allows geographic preference only for
procurement of unprocessed local agriculture
products in CNPs
Precludes use of geographic preference for
products with significant value added
components

Initial
◦ Included washing vegetables, bagging greens,
butchering livestock and poultry, pasteurizing milk,
and putting eggs in a carton (SP30-2008; July ‘08)
Expanded
◦ Included chopped, cut, sliced, diced or shucked
(SP01-2010; Oct. ‘09)
Most recent
◦ Products must retain their inherent character and
include such preserving techniques as cooling,
refrigerating, and freezing (SP08-2010; Nov. ‘09)

$5.5 million
◦ maximum funding per State is $350,000
Only State Agencies administering NSLP/SBP
Grant Activities must:
◦ Include HealthierUS School Challenge Component
◦ Use USDA or National Food Service Management Institute
Materials
State Agencies encouraged to:
◦ Include school gardening and farm-to-school
◦ leverage other resources to enhance physical
education/activity
Applications Due: April 30
Grant awards expected September 2010