Summer Food Service Program

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Summer Food Service Program

• Food Thats In When School Is Out
• Ann-Marie Martin
• Program Specialist
• State of Alaska
• Department of Education

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Program Benefits for Summer Food

• Provides nutritious meals to children during the
  summer
• Helps families stretch their Summer food-buying
  dollars, when children have had NSLP meals during
  the school year
• Provides positive adult interaction during the
  summer months
• Helps children avoid isolation issues

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Summer Food Options for School Districts

• Continuation of NSLP (only enrolled
  summer school students served)
• Seamless Summer Option (all children in
  community served)
• Summer Food Service Program (all children in
  community served)

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1) National School Lunch Program for Summer
School

• Only serve summer school students
• Same reimbursement rates as regular NSLP
• Follow all NSLP rules regulations

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2) Summer Seamless Option

• Located in areas where 50 or more of children
  qualify for free or reduced price school meals or
  through census data
• Serve all children in the local area
• Receive the NSLP meal reimbursement rates
• Follow the NSLP meal patterns and monitoring
  guidelines and do not need to attend the SFSP
  training

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3) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)

• SFSP sites are located in areas where 50 or more
  of children qualify for free or reduced price
  school meals or using the census data
• SFSP sites serve all children in the local area
• SFSP sites receive the SFSP meal reimbursement
  rates, which are higher than the NSLP rates
• SFSP sponsors must attend the SFSP training
  (returning sponsors may attend conference call
  training) follow all SFSP requirements

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Resources available for further clarification on
3 options for School Districts

• Alaska Department of Education,
• Child Nutrition Services website
  http//www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/cns/
• Summer Food Service Options for School Districts
• Seamless Summer Option Question Answers
• Simplified Summer Food Program Question Answers

Contact Ann-Marie Martin at Child Nutrition
Services for complete Summer Food options
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• Would you like more information on the Summer
  Food Service Program?
• The following slides further explain the Summer
  Food Service Program (SFSP)

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Meal Service

• Two meals per child, per day
• Camps, migrant, and Alaska Native sites may claim
  up to 3 meals per day
• Meals must meet the minimum USDA standards
• Breakfast (1 milk, 1 veg or fruit, 1 grain or
  bread)
• Lunch/Supper (1 milk, 2 veg and/or fruits,
  1 grain/bread, 1 meat or meat
  alternate)
• Snack (2 food items milk, vegetable or
  fruit, grain, meat/meat alt)

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Sponsoring Organizations must

• Accept financial and administrative
  responsibility
• Be capable of managing a food service
• Sponsors
• Train staff and monitor sites
• Arrange for meals
• Oversee site operations
• Complete paperwork
• Submit claims for reimbursement
• Communicate with Child Nutrition Services

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Sponsoring Organizations are

• Schools
• Community and faith-based organizations
• Private non-profit organizations
• Local governments
• College or university participating the National
  Youth Sports Program or Upward Bound Program
• Alaska Native Villages or Tribal Councils

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Potential Feeding Sites

• Schools
• Parks
• Pools
• Community or Rec Centers
• Churches
• Playgrounds
• Housing projects
• Camps
• Migrant or Tribal centers
• Libraries

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Site Types Eligibility Requirements

• Open site - All children in an eligible area eat
  free without the need of additional paperwork
• Closed Enrolled site - All children enrolled in
  an eligible program eat free, if 50 or more meet
  the income eligibility guidelines as demonstrated
  by household income applications or income
  records from the school they attended
• Camp site Children who meet the eligibility
  requirements eat free, as demonstrated by
  household income applications
• Migrant or Alaska Native site All children
  enrolled eat free without the need of additional
  paperwork
• See the following slides

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SFSP Site Definitions Eligibility Documentation
A site is the physical location where meals are
served to children and are consumed in a
supervised setting.
OPEN SITE

• Serves all children in the geographical area
  where at least 50 of the children are eligible
  for free or
• reduced-price school meals.
• Reimbursed for all attending children.

ELIGIBILITY DOCUMENTATION
School Data
Census Block Group Data
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CLOSED ENROLLED SITE

• Serves only children in specific program or in
  activity serving only identified groups of
  children.
• Site is not open to the community at large.
• Reimbursed for all attending children.

ELIGIBILITY DOCUMENTATION

• Complete and accurate eligibility applications
  with 50 or more eligible for free or
  reduced-price school meals.
• OR
• Sponsor may get eligibility information from
  schools.

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RESIDENTIAL SUMMER CAMP NON RESIDENTIAL DAY CAMP
Reimbursed only for meals served to campers who
have been individually determined to be eligible
for free or reduced-price school meals.
NATIONAL YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAM (NYSP)
3 Ways to Qualify
Sponsor provides written certification that it
(the NYSP) meets DHHS income guidelines
50 of enrolled children reside in geographical
area where poor economic conditions exist
50 of enrolled children meet the income
eligibility guidelines for free or reduced-price
school meals
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MIGRANT or ALASKA NATIVE SITE

• Must serve primarily children of migrant
  families or Alaska Native children, but may
  serve other children as well.
• Reimbursed for all children served.

ELIGIBILITY DOCUMENTATION

• Migrant organization or tribal authority
  certifies that the site serves migrant or
  Alaska Native children
• OR
• Migrant or tribal authority certifies that the
  site primarily serves migrant or Alaska Native
  children

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Meal Reimbursements for SFSP

• One reimbursement rate that combines program
  operating costs administrative costs
• Rates for Summer 2006 (will
  increase in March, 2007)
• Oper. Admin. Total Reim. Rate
• Breakfast (2.38.235 2.615)
• Lunch (4.15.435 4.585)
• Snack (.97.1175 1.0875)

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What does this mean to a sponsor?

• Simple Example 25 Kids ate at the feeding site
  each day (20 program days in month)
• 25 x 20 500 meals for the month
• Serving Breakfast Lunch
• Month Breakfast Reimbursement 1,307.50
• (500 meals x 2.615)
• Month Lunch Reimbursement 2,292.50
• (500 meals x 4.585)
• Total Month Reimbursement 3,600.00

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Simple Example 50 Kids ate at the feeding site
each day (20 program days in month)50 x 20
1000 meals for the month

• Serving Snack Lunch
• Month Snack Reimbursement 1,087.50
• (1000 meals x 1.0875)
• Month Lunch Reimbursement 4,585.00
• (1000 meals x 4.585)
• Total Month Reimbursement 5,672.50

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Alaska Historical Data

• 2003 - 16 sponsors/43 sites
• 108,552 meals served
• 2004 - 14 sponsors/34 sites
• 102,560 meals served
• 2005 - 18 sponsors/43 sites
• 78,926 meals served
• 2006 - 15 sponsors/37 sites
• 105,890 meals served

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You can help at many levels!

• Become a sponsor
• Have a feeding site at your school(s)
• Offer an activity program in addition to a
  feeding program at your school(s)
• Provide meals to feeding sites, if you have meal
  preparation facilities
• Offer to let a non-profit use a school site for
  feeding local children or access to your
  bathrooms if a feeding site is outdoors near your
  school(s)

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Keys to Success

• Creative and fun activities for kids and teens
• Develop partnerships
• Involve parents and interested community members
• Be resourceful and innovative combine program
  with other money available for youth activity
  programs

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Groups to contact

• Libraries
• Mayors office
• Boys Girls Club
• Salvation Army
• Police Fire Departments
• National Park Service they do wonderful
  programs for kids that you could combine with
  your feeding program
• Non-profits that may have volunteers available

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Success Stories

• Kashunamiut School District had a great community
  turnout during their 4 week feeding program.
• Family Centered Services of Alaska, Inc. (a RCCI)
  had a feeding site for the students working at
  the soccer fields in Fairbanks.
• Yakutat Tlingit Tribe contracted with a local
  grocery store and had their feeding site at the
  store, where kids hang out. They had a
  phenomenal activity feeding program.

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What next?

• You can make a difference!!!
• Contact the state agency
• Ann-Marie Martin
• Summer Food Service Program Specialist
• [phone]
• annmarie_martin_at_eed.state.ak.us