Cindy Long Child Nutrition Division Director Food and Nutrition ...
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<strong>Cindy</strong> <strong>Long</strong><br />
<strong>Child</strong> <strong>Nutrition</strong> <strong>Division</strong> <strong>Director</strong><br />
<strong>Food</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Nutrition</strong> Service, USDA
FY10 Appropriations- Update<br />
Program Access<br />
Fresh Fruit <strong>and</strong> Vegetable Program<br />
Farm to School Initiative/Geographic<br />
Preference<br />
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FY10 Appropriations Update
Funding: $25 million to eligible SFAs that<br />
◦ Participate in the NSLP<br />
◦ Did not receive in FY09<br />
Goal: Purchase equipment that improves<br />
◦ Quality, food safety, overall energy efficiency<br />
Grant Awards: SAs will distribute funds using<br />
a competitive application process<br />
◦ Developed under ARRA, or<br />
◦ A newly-developed competitive application process<br />
Possible legislative fix in future
Funding: $85 Million<br />
Goal: Develop <strong>and</strong> test methods of providing<br />
access to food for children during summer<br />
months<br />
Solicitation expected to be released this<br />
week.<br />
This summer’s demonstrations are the first<br />
phase of a multi-year effort examining access<br />
<strong>and</strong> food insecurity in the summer months.
Funding: $8 Million<br />
Competitive grants to SAs to improve health<br />
<strong>and</strong> nutrition of children in child care settings<br />
◦ SAs must award at least 50% of grant funds to<br />
CACFP institutions<br />
◦ Request for Applications will be released this month<br />
◦ Expect 120-day application deadline<br />
Webinar for State CACFP Agencies<br />
◦ Held on January 19
Funding: $22 Million<br />
◦ Assist States in making technology improvements<br />
◦ Provide technical assistance to LEAs<br />
Grants must be targeted to States with lowest<br />
rates of children directly certified<br />
Conference calls to determine best approach
Direct Certification in the National School<br />
Lunch Program: State Implementation<br />
Progress<br />
◦ published November 2009<br />
Assesses effectiveness of direct certification<br />
efforts made by States <strong>and</strong> locals<br />
2008-2009 median direct certification rate of<br />
SNAP-participating children was 72%,<br />
compared to 68% in prior year
FY 10 Appropriations added 4 States to At-<br />
Risk Supper Program<br />
◦ District of Columbia<br />
◦ Connecticut<br />
◦ Nevada<br />
◦ Wisconsin<br />
14 States with CACFP Supper Authority
Combat pay<br />
◦ Excluded from income<br />
Weighted averaging waiver<br />
◦ Extended through FY 2010<br />
<strong>Food</strong> Safety Inspection Report<br />
◦ Extended through FY 2010
Extend categorical eligibility to additional<br />
children in a household<br />
Unemployment Insurance (UI) letters<br />
Encourage SAs to provide October Free <strong>and</strong><br />
Reduced Price data to CACFP State agencies<br />
as soon as possible
Allocation Timeframes – July <strong>and</strong> October<br />
◦ SY10-11: $101million<br />
◦ Additional $9.8 million from prior year funds<br />
◦ Notification of upcoming school year allocation sent<br />
to States on February 22, 2010<br />
States must notify their regional offices by<br />
June 1 of the portion of the July allocation<br />
they want to receive.
Elementary schools with highest free <strong>and</strong><br />
reduced price enrollment receive priority<br />
School Selection<br />
◦ States must target neediest schools<br />
◦ States must actively conduct outreach to these<br />
schools .<br />
Participating elementary schools must plan to<br />
initiate the Program when classes resume.<br />
Elementary schools only<br />
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FFVP regulation under development<br />
Web-based Toolkit coming soon<br />
◦ Prototype presentations, podcasts, fact sheets<br />
Evaluation<br />
◦ Data collection will be moved to the beginning of<br />
next school year.<br />
◦ Participating States were notified of this change on<br />
February 25, 2010.<br />
◦ New sample of schools will need to be drawn.
F2S site to provide information on<br />
◦ Legislative history<br />
◦ How to start a Farm to School Program<br />
◦ How to purchase locally<br />
◦ Policies<br />
◦ Solutions to overcoming barriers<br />
◦ <strong>Food</strong> safety<br />
◦ Progress on USDA F2S Team Initiative<br />
1st F2S Webinar<br />
◦ March 10, 2010 at 3:00 pm EST<br />
◦ Registration information on F2S site <strong>and</strong> CND<br />
PartnerWeb<br />
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Amendment made to 9(j) of NSLA (Sec. 4302<br />
of P.L. 110-246)<br />
Allows geographic preference only for<br />
procurement of unprocessed local agriculture<br />
products in CNPs<br />
Precludes use of geographic preference for<br />
products with significant value added<br />
components
Initial<br />
◦ Included washing vegetables, bagging greens,<br />
butchering livestock <strong>and</strong> poultry, pasteurizing milk,<br />
<strong>and</strong> putting eggs in a carton (SP30-2008; July ‘08)<br />
Exp<strong>and</strong>ed<br />
◦ Included chopped, cut, sliced, diced or shucked<br />
(SP01-2010; Oct. ‘09)<br />
Most recent<br />
◦ Products must retain their inherent character <strong>and</strong><br />
include such preserving techniques as cooling,<br />
refrigerating, <strong>and</strong> freezing (SP08-2010; Nov. ‘09)
$5.5 million<br />
◦ maximum funding per State is $350,000<br />
Only State Agencies administering NSLP/SBP<br />
Grant Activities must:<br />
◦ Include HealthierUS School Challenge Component<br />
◦ Use USDA or National <strong>Food</strong> Service Management Institute<br />
Materials<br />
State Agencies encouraged to:<br />
◦ Include school gardening <strong>and</strong> farm-to-school<br />
◦ leverage other resources to enhance physical<br />
education/activity<br />
Applications Due: April 30<br />
Grant awards expected September 2010