Better Together: Optimizing Summer Meal Programs in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties is the product of qualitative interviews with stakeholders in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties who administer summer meal programs. Better Together highlights the importance of summer … Read more
Practical Nutrition for Homeless Youth
This workshop guide provides guidance for nutrition educators in facilitating nutrition workshops for homeless youth or groups with similar barriers to achieving nutrition goals. It can also be used as a model for creating new workshops with similar structures and … Read more
Nutrition Hubs: Building Healthy, Hunger-Free Schools in King County, Washington
Nutrition Hubs: Building Hunger- Free Schools in King County is a guide for increasing students’ access to school meals that outlines a method of collaboration between AmeriCorps members, community organizations, school districts, and private funders.
Fuel 4 School: Universal School Breakfast and Lunch Community Eligibility Provision
Fuel 4 School assesses the impact of Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) on food service in Allegheny County schools. Through focus groups with parents and interviews with school administrators, the report details how CEP enhances the effects of the School Breakfast … Read more
Characteristics and Actions of Hunger Leaders Who are Not Directly in the Hunger Space
The goal of ending childhood hunger can be furthered effectively through alliances of anti-hunger advocates and partners from the education community, nutrition and health organizations, labor unions, and private sector food companies and trade associations. This paper offers a concise … Read more
Local School Wellness Plans: A Key to Improving Child Health
School wellness policies are a vital tool that parents, students, teachers, school food service staff, school administrators, and local communities can use to address children’s nutrition and health needs. This paper is one in a series of occasional white papers … Read more
Washington Summer Meals Guide
Washington Summer Meals Guide is an easy to use guide specific to the state of Washington to help recruit more community-based organization in providing summer meals. The guide is an introduction to Summer Meals and highlights best practices from across … Read more
Reclaiming the Cafeteria: An Advocate’s Guide to Understanding the Nashville School Food Environment
Reclaiming the Cafeteria: An Advocate’s Guide to Understanding the Nashville School Food Environment is a resource manual with detailed information on the factors that together shape the school food options within the Metro Nashville Public Schools.
Discover School Breakfast
Discover School Breakfast is a comprehensive School Breakfast Program toolkit designed to introduce the program to school principals, parents, food service staff and other stakeholders and facilitate the establishment of School Breakfast Programs in more communities.
School Breakfast Models
School Breakfast Models examines several approaches to School Breakfast Programs nationwide, such as Breakfast in the Classroom, Delayed Breakfast, and Provision 2 with analysis of each of the model schools’ demographics, barriers to implementation, possible solutions, and a description of … Read more
Teachers’ Perceptions of the School Breakfast Program
Teachers’ Perceptions of the School Breakfast Program reports teachers experiences with the School Breakfast Program (SBP) in Connecticut, provides a basic overview of the SBP, offers steps that groups can take to promote the program, and includes a resource guide … Read more
Children and Their Food Practices
Children and Their Food Practices illustrates the influence that school meals and family eating practices have on Tucson children’s food security, overall health and well being.