Boys and Girls Club. Churches. YMCA/YWCA. Community Learnin

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Afterschool Programs and SNACKS
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Criteria to Participate in anAfter School Snack
Program

• LEA must participate in the NSLP and
• The LEA must sponsor or operate a program which
• contains an educational/enrichment activity
  offered after the regular school day.
• provides children with regularly scheduled
  activities in an organized, structured
• and supervised environment.

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Criteria to Participate,continued

• It is the LEA that must
• assume/maintain
• responsibility for meeting Program requirements.

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Programs not qualifying for an After School Snack
Program

• Organized athletic programs engaged in
  interscholastic or community level competition
  may not be approved
• Youth sport leagues, such as baseball leagues,
• soccer leagues, football leagues, and area swim
  teams would not qualify.
• However, a supervised athletic activity may
• participate provided that they are open to all
  and
• do not limit membership.

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Programs not qualifying,continued

• Head Start Programs
• ECEAP
• Kindergarten Classes
• These programs would not be considered to be
  after the regular school day.

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Approved Service Locations

• Snack sites do not necessarily have to be located
  at a school
• Boys and Girls Club
• Churches
• YMCA/YWCA
• Community Learning Center

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Health Safety Requirements

• LEAs should check with the local health
• department to see if there are any food safety
• requirements which must be met prior to serving
  snacks at a location other than a school.

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Approved Service Days

• After School Snack Programs must be regularly
  scheduled, following the regular school day
  (could be a program which meets weekly, or three
  times a week does not have to be daily).
• Snacks cannot be claimed for reimbursement that
  are served on weekends, holidays, school breaks,
  or during summer vacation.

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Snack Meal Pattern

• Snacks must contain at least two of the
• four meal components (in the required amounts)
• milk 8 fluid ounces
• fruit and/or vegetable ¾ cup or 6 ounces
• meat/meat alternate 1 ounce
• bread/grain 1 serving

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Eligibility Criteria

• Snacks
• Snack sites must be added to the site application
  on the CNP web-based program.
• Regular Snack Program site is lt 50 FRP.
• Area Eligible Snack Program site is 50.
• October Building Data.
• It is possible to serve snacks free of charge to
  students at sites lt 50 by billing a grant.

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Area Eligibility Defined

• A site qualifies as area eligible if it is in the
  attendance area of a school which has at least
  50 of its enrollment eligible for free or
  reduced-price meals.
• A school that qualifies as area eligible may
  also qualify any other school/site in the same
  attendance zone.

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Area Eligibility,continued

• An Elementary, middle, or a high school
• may be used to qualify any other school
• in the same attendance zone.

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Record Keeping Requirements

• The sponsor must maintain a snack production
  record to show meal pattern.
• A roster or sign-in sheet of participating
• children must be maintained.
• A point of service meal count must be maintained
  to show the number of snacks served.
• Two on-site reviews are required one during the
  first four weeks of the program, and one prior to
  the end of the school year/snack program.

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Reimbursement

• Area Eligible
• All eligible snacks are reimbursed at the
• free rate 0.71
• Regular
• Snacks are reimbursed according to student
  eligibility
• free 0.71
• reduced-price 0.35
• paid 0.06

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Program Sense

• You may receive reimbursement for
• providing a snack to children who are
• attending an afterschool program.
• Research has shown a correlation between
• adequate nutrition and a childs
• development and school performance.

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Community Sense

• The community as a whole benefits from
• afterschool programs.
• Child have a safe place to go after school.
• Child are in a supervised setting.
• Children are helped with homework and
• skills.
• Child receive a snack, which helps hold them over
  until dinner.

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Contact Information

• Please contact your assigned program specialist
• Olympia Angela Ruiz 360-725-6212
• Tacoma Linsey LaPlant 253-589-7252
• Edmonds Kari Lund 425-776-2955
• Yakima Pam Mahre 509-575-2412
• Spokane Debra Calhoun 509-323-2751