1 / 7

California Library Association & California Summer Meal Coalition

LU. California Library Association & California Summer Meal Coalition. Let’s get started!. Is your library ready? Community need Staff and facility capacity Establishing eligibility Census data School data – 50% of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch Starting point contacts

mcash
Download Presentation

California Library Association & California Summer Meal Coalition

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. LU California Library Association & California Summer Meal Coalition

  2. Let’s get started! • Is your library ready? • Community need • Staff and facility capacity • Establishing eligibility • Census data • School data – 50% of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch • Starting point contacts • School Nutrition Director • Food Bank Lunch at the Library

  3. The basics • Prior to start, providers host mandatory training • Summer meal providers (sponsor) deliver meals to library (site) • Library serves meals, completes paperwork, places orders • Count meals received, served, leftovers, etc. • Records temperatures • Ensures meals are eaten on site, by 18 and under only • Follows USDA and health dept. safety regulations Lunch at the Library

  4. Finding a meal provider • Schools are often your best bet…most of the time. • Other ways of finding providers, identifying need: • USDA Capacity Builder https://www.fns.usda.gov/capacitybuilder • CA Department of Education http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sh/sn/summersites.asp Lunch at the Library

  5. Speaking Summer Meal Language • Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) & Seamless Summer Feeding Option (SSFO) • Your provider may sound like they are speaking a foreign language – don’t be intimidated • Common misconceptions / different rules • Even if there is a site nearby, your library CAN be a site: Must serve a different population (handstamp, etc.) • Children do NOT need to eat in area separate from parents • Share table Lunch at the Library

  6. Getting off to a good start • Starts with asking the right questions... LunchAtTheLibrary.org > First Steps > Finding and Working with a Meal Provider Lunch at the Library

  7. CONTACT Patrice Chamberlain Director, CA Summer Meal Coalition Institute for Local Government Email: pchamberlain@ca-ilg.org 415.637.6815 Lunch at the Library

More Related