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Child Nutrition Reauthorization

An opportunity to improve child nutrition programs and work towards

ending childhood hunger!

 

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization provides an opportunity to make significant improvements to school meals, summer meals, meals served at after-school programs and day care, and WIC.

The Nutrition Consortium of NYS, along with anti-hunger partners across NYS and the nation, are advocating for improvements to child nutrition programs through the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act. Our goal is to make changes through the Act so that these programs will reach more hungry children, and with more nutritious foods.  

The Nutrition Consortium of NYS has joined thousands of advocates and partners from across the country which calls on the Administration and Congress to enact a reauthorization bill that:

• assures and strengthens program access and supports participation by underserved children and communities;

• enhances nutrition quality and provides adequate meal reimbursements; and

• modernizes technology and simplifies program administration and operation.

Access-Related Child Nutrition Reauthorization Priorities:

• Support school breakfast by providing grants to implement universal breakfast and breakfast in the classroom programs.  (click here)

• Improve the area eligibility guidelines so more communities can provide meals during the summer, afterschool, and in child care settings.  Click here to learn more or here for a NYS map showing additional communities included. 

• Allow child care centers and homes the option of serving a third meal.  (click here)

• Support more measures to establish universally free school meals and improve direct certification for free school meals.  (click here)

Related Resources and Timeline of Child Nutrition Reauthorization:

• July 2010: The House Education and Labor Committee passes the Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act. 
• June 2010: The House Education and Labor Committee introduces a Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill entitled, "Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act"! Click here for analysis of investments or here for bill language. 
• FRAC's Issue Briefs for Child Nutrition Reauthorization:
• How to Expand Participation in School Breakfast
• How Competitive Foods in Schools Impact Student Health, School Meal Programs, and
  Students from Low-Income Families
• How to Promote Access to Good Nutrition in Child Care Settings
• How to Increase Low-Income Children’s Access to Nutritious Meals and Snacks After School
• May 2010: National, state, and local organizations sign-on to letter urging Senate leadership to pass a robustly funded Child Nutrition bill before the end of the 111th Congress. (click here)
• May 2010: Nutrition Consortium submits testimony to NYC Council's hearing on CNR. (click here)
• April 2010: House of Representative members circulate "Dear Colleague" letter asking Speaker Pelosi to identify additional funding sources for CNR. (click here for the letter and here for a list of members signed-on)
• April 2010: Powerpoint slides from the Senate’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act Conference Call (click here)
• March 2010: Senate Agriculture Committee introduces and passes a Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill entitled, "Healthy, Hunger Free-Kids Act of 2010"! Click here for analysis of investments or here for bill language. 
• A list of recently introduced Child Nutrition-related bills (click here)

• October 2009: Nutrition Consortium submits testimony to Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee Hearing in support of the SBP and grant funding for universal

  in‐classroom breakfast programs.  (click here)

• September 2009: Powerpoint slides from Child Nutrition Reauthorization Conference Call (click here)
• October 2008: Nutrition Consortium's recommendations to the USDA on Child Nutrition Reauthorization (click here)
• FRAC: Statement of Principles for Child Nutrition Reauthorization (click here)
• June 2008: Nutrition Consortium testifies on behalf of child nutrition programs at USDA Child Nutrition Reauthorization Listening Session (click here)
• FRAC: A factsheet on Child Nutrition Reauthorization (click here)