USDA Child Nutrition UpdateLegislative Action Conference

Washington DC

Stan GarnettChild Nutrition Division Director

Food and Nutrition Service, USDAMarch 5, 2007

FY 2006 Program Statistics

Children served/dayChildren served/day

• NSLP -- +30mNSLP -- +30m

• SBP -- +9.0mSBP -- +9.0m

• NSLP afterschool NSLP afterschool snacks -- +1.1msnacks -- +1.1m

SchoolsSchools

• NSLP – +101k NSLP – +101k

• SBP -- +84k SBP -- +84k

• NSLP afterschool NSLP afterschool

snacks – + 25k sites snacks – + 25k sites

Federal cost: $12.7bFederal cost: $12.7b

CN Program Trends FY 2006 over FY 2005

Participation – NSLP -- + 10%– NSLP afterschool snacks -- +147%– SBP -- +29%

CN and WIC ReauthorizationP.L. 108-2652004 – 2009

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June 30, 2004 Sept. 30, 2009

February 2007

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

Rules in Development

• NSLP/SBP Meal Patterns

• Provision 2 & 3 District-wide

• Seamless Summer

• Administrative Error Reduction

Rules in Clearance• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control

Point (HACCP)

• Direct Certification

• Verification

• Applications

• Procurement

• Confidentiality

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:Upcoming Publications:– Proposed Rule regarding implementation of 2005 Proposed Rule regarding implementation of 2005

DGA in NSLP and SBP - 2007DGA in NSLP and SBP - 2007– Proposed Rule regarding implementation of 2005 Proposed Rule regarding implementation of 2005

DGA in CACFP - 2008DGA in CACFP - 2008

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

New Materials Being Developed

• Grow It, Try It, Like It!

• Empowering Youth with Nutrition and Physical Activity

• Nutrition Essentials

• Spanish Childcare Materials

HealthierUS School Challenge

• Improve the quality of foods served

• Provide students with nutrition education

• Provide opportunities for physical activity

HealthierUS School Challenge

• Silver Team Nutrition School

• Gold Team Nutrition School

HealthierUS School Challenge

• 107 awards – 14 Silver – 93 Gold

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

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

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.

Local Wellness Policies

teamnutrition.usda.gov/Healthy/wellnesspolicy.html

• Information

• Resources

• Examples

• FAQs and more

Local Wellness Policies

• E-mail teamnutrition@fns.usda.gov

• Send success stories

• Send your LWP questions

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

Grants

• Administrative Reviews and Training (ART) Grants

• Direct Certification and Direct Verification Grants

• Team Nutrition Training Grants

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 2001–04.

• 27 States participate.

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

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

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

Additional FFVP States

• In 2006, Congress appropriated $6,000,000 for 6 additional states

• Funding expires June 30, 2007

FFVP Resources

• Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Handbook for States

• Partner Web

• Regular Conference Calls

Food Safety Reports

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

• Most SAs submitted reports.

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

Translations AvailableArabicCambodianMandarinFarsiFrenchGreekHaitianHindi

Serbo-CroatianSomaliSpanishSudaneseTagalogThaiUrduVietnamese

HmongJapaneseKoreanKurdishLaotianPolishPortugueseRussianSamoan

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

Thank You