Wyoming’s experience P-EBT provides insight into the rewards of directly issuing the benefits instead of requiring applications and how a state could move from an application process to direct issuance.
Read the reportWyoming’s experience P-EBT provides insight into the rewards of directly issuing the benefits instead of requiring applications and how a state could move from an application process to direct issuance.
Read the reportSchools and community sponsors operating the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), the Seamless Summer Option (SSO), and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Afterschool Meal Program can receive federal funding for providing meals on weekends, school holidays, and school breaks during this school year. As COVID-19 continues to disproportionately impact families with children, this remains an important but currently underutilized opportunity to reduce hunger and support good nutrition during COVID-19 and to support program operations while drawing down additional federal reimbursements.
Explore the Best PracticeFood banks play a critical role in expanding the reach of the federally funded child nutrition programs to meet the growing need, including during COVID-19 and beyond. With vast networks and programmatic expertise, food banks are natural leaders in promoting and providing summer and afterschool meals and working with program providers and partners to serve meals at sites across the country.
Explore the Best PracticeThis archived brief from 2005 highlights timeliness incentives for SNAP applications.
Read the reportThe Food Research & Action Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities conducted a rapid assessment project to document the development and implementation of P-EBT benefits covering the spring of 2020. This report, by Kone Consulting, identifies the various approaches states took to implement P-EBT in the spring and summer of 2020, as well as key preliminary lessons state officials and other stakeholders have learned. This information will help states to strengthen implementation efforts when Congress extends this option for the FY2020-2021 school year.
Read the reportThis guide is designed to help increase school breakfast participation in secondary schools. It provides strategies and best practices for the successful implementation of breakfast after the bell programs that were based on conversations with principals across the country.
Read the GuideLaunch page to open interactive map and tables for 2020 summer nutrition reports (with data on summer programs in July 2019)
Read the reportThe Food Research & Action Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities conducted a rapid assessment project to document the development and implementation of P-EBT benefits covering the spring of 2020.
Read the reportThe Pandemic Child Hunger Prevention Act would provide free breakfast and lunch to all students attending schools that participate in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) during the 2020–2021 school year.
Read the Advocacy ToolThe Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), a federal nutrition program, is widely recognized as an important safeguard for protecting and improving the health and nutrition of low-income mothers and children.
Read the Fact SheetThe critical role that breakfast plays in
children’s overall well-being does not end when the
school year does.
FRAC has developed a communications toolkit to help you spread the word about the benefits of summer nutrition programs.
Spread the WordThis communications toolkit for the Southern Poverty Report 2020 highlights key findings and ways to share the word!
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