USDA Child Nutrition Update

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USDA Child Nutrition Update

• Legislative Action Conference
• Washington DC

Stan Garnett Child Nutrition Division Director
Food and Nutrition Service, USDA March 5, 2007
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FY 2006 Program Statistics

• Federal cost 12.7b

• Children served/day
• NSLP -- 30m
• SBP -- 9.0m
• NSLP afterschool snacks -- 1.1m

• Schools
• NSLP 101k
• SBP -- 84k
• NSLP afterschool
• snacks 25k sites

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CN Program Trends FY 2006 over FY 2005

• Participation
• NSLP -- 10
• NSLP afterschool snacks -- 147
• SBP -- 29

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CN and WIC ReauthorizationP.L. 108-2652004
2009
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June 30, 2004 Sept. 30, 2009
February 2007
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Published Rules 2004 CN WIC Reauthorization

• 20 rules will result from Reauthorization
• 8 Rules Published in 2004 and 2005
• 4 Rules Published in 2006
• NSLP Rules published in 2006
• Substitution of Non-Diary Beverages
• Minimum SAE Grants

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Rules in Development

• NSLP/SBP Meal Patterns
• Provision 2 3 District-wide
• Seamless Summer
• Administrative Error Reduction

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Rules in Clearance

• Hazard Analysis and Critical ControlPoint
  (HACCP)
• Direct Certification
• Verification
• Applications
• Procurement
• Confidentiality

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2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Impact on
CN Programs

• FNS assembled an internal working group to
  develop recommendations to revise CN Programs
  nutrition standards to reflect the relevant 2005
  Dietary Guidelines.
• Upcoming Publications
• Proposed Rule regarding implementation of 2005
  DGA in NSLP and SBP - 2007
• Proposed Rule regarding implementation of 2005
  DGA in CACFP - 2008

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Materials Being Updated

• Menu Planning Guide for Schools
• Team Up at Home
• Go, Glow, Grow Foods for You
• The Power of Choice
• Nibbles for Health

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New Materials Being Developed

• Grow It, Try It, Like It!
• Empowering Youth with Nutrition and Physical
  Activity
• Nutrition Essentials
• Spanish Childcare Materials

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HealthierUS School Challenge

• Improve the quality of foods served
• Provide students with nutrition education
• Provide opportunities for physical activity

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HealthierUS School Challenge

• Silver Team Nutrition School
• Gold Team Nutrition School

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HealthierUS School Challenge

• 107 awards
• 14 Silver
• 93 Gold

• Colorado
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Indiana
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Mississippi

• Montana
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• Tennessee
• Wyoming
• Texas

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Local Wellness

• The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization
• Act of 2004 required School Districts that
• participate in child nutrition programs to
• establish local wellness policies by the
• beginning of School Year 2006-2007.

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Local Wellness Policies

• teamnutrition.usda.gov/Healthy/wellnesspolicy.html
  
• Information
• Resources
• Examples
• FAQs and more

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Local Wellness Policies

• E-mail teamnutrition_at_fns.usda.gov
• Send success stories
• Send your LWP questions

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Demonstration Project Grants

• Purpose
• Assess Local Wellness Policy initiatives
  (individual schools/districts)
• Document processes
• Assess needs for training and technical
  assistance at State level
• Funding period Sept 2006 - Sept 2009
• 3 State Agencies received awards

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Grants

• Administrative Reviews and Training (ART) Grants
• Direct Certification and Direct Verification
  Grants
• Team Nutrition Training Grants

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Simplified Summer (Lugar)

• Variation of the SFSP.
• Sponsors get maximum reimbursement (meals times
  rates).
• May combine operating and administrative
  reimbursements for Program costs.
• Grew out of the Lugar Pilot in 14 States during
  FY 200104.
• 27 States participate.

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School Meals Initiative (SMI) TRAINING

• Spring 2006, three 2-day training sessions
• Approximately 200 State and FNS personnel,
  contractors, software vendors
• Presentations and resources
• State agencies and Regional offices
• Materials on PartnerWeb

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SMI Field Training

• FNS will continue visiting States
• accompany State and Regional staff
• assist in 2006-2009 reviews
• 8 States visited since January 2007
• 3 visits planned for March 2007

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Fresh Fruit Vegetable Program

• Became a permanent program in 8 states and 3
  Indian Tribal Organizations
• June 30, 2004
• Reauthorization Act provided mandatory 9,000,000
  annually beginning FY2005

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Additional FFVP States

• In 2006, Congress appropriated 6,000,000 for 6
  additional states
• Funding expires June 30, 2007

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FFVP Resources

• Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Handbook for
  States
• Partner Web
• Regular Conference Calls

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Food Safety Reports

• Food safety reports for SY05 and SY06 were due
  November 15, 2006.
• Most SAs submitted reports.

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Application Translations

• Section 9 (b) (8) of the NSLA addresses
  Communications
• 25 different languages
• Memo issued June 22, 2006
• Available on the FNS website at
• www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/FRP/frp.process.htm

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Translations Available

• Arabic
• Cambodian
• Mandarin
• Farsi
• French
• Greek
• Haitian
• Hindi

Serbo-Croatian Somali Spanish Sudanese Tagalog Tha
i Urdu Vietnamese
Hmong Japanese Korean Kurdish Laotian Polish Portu
guese Russian Samoan
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Vending machines

• Machines are an extension of school food service
  area.
• Subject to all CN Program regulations
• Same procedures
• Same menu planning requirements
• Same competitive food rules
• Same offer versus serve requirements
• Memo issued January 22, 2007

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Thank You