Start Serving Afterschool Meals Over 13 Million Food Insecure Children In Need Join the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program www.afterschoolmeals.org Two Three One
Only 1 in 16 at-risk children participate. CACFP Meal Patterns # of Children Served in NSLP Free & Reduced 18M # of Children Served CACFP Supper 1.1M # of Children Served CACFP Snack 335K Afterschool & Out of School Time Over 13 million children leave school not knowing if there is supper at home or if their next meal won’t be until the next day while they are at school. Serving meals and snacks to children in at-risk afterschool and out of school time doesn’t have to be hard or complicated. Find a CACFP Sponsor. We can help! Sponsoring organizations can work with a foodservice vendor or school food authority who will deliver meals at or near the reimbursement rate. You only need to take attendance, count meals and provide an enrichment activity. info.cacfp.org/sponsor Breakfast AGES 6-12 AGES 13-18 MILK 1 cup 1 cup VEGETABLE, FRUIT, OR BOTH 1/2 cup 1/2 cup GRAIN 1 oz eq 1 oz eq Reimbursement Rates for 2023-2024* Free $2.28 Reduced $1.98 Paid $0.38 Snack AGES 6-12 AGES 13-18 MILK 1 cup 1 cup MEAT/MEAT ALTERNATE 1 oz 1 oz VEGETABLE 3/4 cup 3/4 cup FRUIT 3/4 cup 3/4 cup GRAIN 1 oz eq 1 oz eq Reimbursement Rates for 2023-2024* Free $1.17 Reduced $0.58 Paid $0.10 AGES 6-12 AGES 13-18 MILK 1 cup 1 cup MEAT/MEAT ALTERNATE 2 oz 2 oz VEGETABLE 1/2 cup 1/2 cup FRUIT 1/4 cup 1/4 cup GRAIN 1 oz eq 1 oz eq Reimbursement Rates for 2023-2024* Cash in Lieu $0.235 Free $4.25 Reduced $3.85 Paid $0.40 Lunch/Supper *Rates are higher in Alaska and Hawaii Snapshot of Participation: October 2022
https://frac.org/wp-content/uploads/afterschool-report-2023.pdf Afterschool Spotlight Afterschool Meals Matter CACFP Suppers Served 277M CACFP Snacks Served 565M Afterschool Sites 38K Supper in the Classroom Vicki Lipscomb is the Founder of Child Nutrition Program, Inc. (CNP), a sponsoring organization of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) that has been feeding children since 1982. CNP currently serves over 24,000 meals each day in North Carolina. In 2015, Vicki met Jim Faggione, Director of School Nutrition Services for Guilford County Schools in North Carolina who manages a team of well over seven hundred school nutrition employees producing eight million lunches and six million breakfasts each year. “At first, there was some resistance to serving afterschool meals, but now people are proud to be part of a program serving 15 sites and 60,000 suppers a month.” With over two-thirds of the 72,000 students coming from low income households, Jim knew he had to find a way to start serving afterschool suppers. While Jim had extensive food service management expertise, he simply didn’t have the capacity to oversee another child nutrition program. It was especially challenging because the National School Lunch Program (NLSP) and the CACFP are run by separate state agencies in North Carolina and each require their own contract application. So Jim partnered with Vicki and together they set out to try something bold – Supper in the Classroom. Vicki and Jim formalized their agreement, with CNP taking responsibility for the CACFP paperwork, reporting, training, monitoring, and overall compliance. CNP would work directly with the CACFP state agency and distribute the reimbursement payments. Guilford County School Nutrition Services would handle the meal preparation, distribution, and other day-to-day tasks, billing for the cost of the suppers. This arrangement allowed both Jim and Vicki to play to their strengths. Jim knew how to manage the operations and provide meals to students, and Vicki knew how to manage the CACFP paperwork and other requirements. They began by implementing the Supper in the Classroom program in two elementary schools. The principals at both schools agreed to serve supper in the classroom after the bell at the end of the school day, as well as provide an enrichment activity. After finding success, Jim and Vicki have grown the program and are now serving over 900 children across thirteen sites this year.
Program Participation Benefits of Participation Increased Nutrition and Decreased Hunger Can Serve Meals Afterschool, Weekends, and Holidays Increased Interest in Enrichment Activities Better Focused and Improved Performance Increased Revenue Benefits of Using a Sponsor Decreased Liability Increased Community Partnerships Increased Flexibility (Adding and Dropping Sites) Decreased Administrative Burden Participation Qualifications Are you located at a site where at least half of the children in the school attendance area are eligible for free and reduced price school meals? Do you offer educational or enrichment activities during the school year–after the regular school day ends or on weekends or holidays? If you do, you likely qualify for reimbursement from the USDA to serve nutritious snack and/or supper. Perceived Barriers Lack of Enrichment Programs Logistics of Serving the Meals Staff & Training Lack of Expertise to Self Sponsor Concern of Managing Multiple Programs Lack of Food Storage or Refrigeration cacfp.org CACFP is an indicator of quality care. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.