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Other Child Nutrition Programs School Breakfast Program Summer Food Service Program Related Tools and Resources

For related publications and additional resources regarding Child Nutrition Programs:

• Click here for resources about the School Breakfast Program
• Click here for resources about the Summer Food Service Program

For School Districts and Food Service Directors: Back to School Resources:

• Free and Reduced-Price Meal Application Outreach Brochure (NYS/upstate)
• NYSED: 2009-2010 Free and Reduced-Price School Meals Application
• FRAC: Strategies in Tough Economic Times: Improving School Meal Access and
  Expanding Participation
• FRAC: A Guide to Collecting School Meals Applications
• Schools Can Help Reduce Child Hunger: An informational flyer about the benefits of federal child nutrition programs

Reports by the Nutrition Consortium of NYS:

• Access to Good Nutrition: Connecting Low-Income Children to Free School Meals with Direct Certification, updated *NEW*

Full Report and Executive Summary

• Shine with School Breakfast: Summary 2008-2009 *NEW*
• Bridging the Summer Nutrition Gap: Summer Food Service Program in NYS, 2009 *NEW*

Full Report and Executive Summary

Other Child Nutrition related materials:

• Child Nutrition Programs in NYS factsheet
• Child Nutrition Programs in NYC factsheet
• FRAC: The Hunger-Obesity Paradox
• FRAC: Food Hardship: A Closer Look at Hunger

Maps of food hardship in NYS, NYC, and NYC boroughs

• Feeding America: Hunger in America, 2010
• Feeding America: Child Food Insecurity, 2006-2008 *NEW*

Sign up for the Child Nutrition Network:

The Nutrition Consortium of NYS now has a monthly e-newsletter and quarterly Child Nutrition e-News with advocacy alerts, policy updates, hunger-related research, and more!  Go to our agency homepage and enter your contact info to sign-up today! 

Ending Childhood Hunger by 2015:

President Barack Obama announced a commitment to end hunger in the United States by 2015.  Click here to read his plan to eliminate hunger by strengthening nutrition assistance programs.  Click here to read the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)’s response and recommendations for achieving the 2015 goal.  Or, go to the FRAC website and learn more. 

Discover what other states are doing in the fight to end childhood hunger:

• California: California Food Policy Advocates
• Connecticut: End Hunger, Connecticut!
• Massachusetts: Project Bread and Meals4Kids
• Ohio: Children's Hunger Alliance
• Vermont: Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger