Summer Feeding Seamlessly

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Summer Feeding Seamlessly
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Why use the seamless option?

• Familiar with NSLP/SBP
• Meal pattern
• Meal service
• Claim forms
• Claim all children free
• Shorter application
• Less paperwork than SFSP
• One monitoring visit

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Site Eligibility

• Agency must already participate in NSLP or SBP.
• Site may be a non-school site.
• Must also be open to the community
• Summer school only would stay on NSLP

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Site Eligibility contd

• Site must meet the 50 free and reduced guideline
  to participate.
• Use statistics from NSLP eligibility
• Provision 2/3 eligible if 50
• Census data may be used in certain circumstances.

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Eligible Participants

• Children in low-income areas 18 years or younger.
  A person 19 or older that meets the state
  definition of having a physical or mental
  disability is eligible.
• Children that are normally eligible for SFSP are
  eligible under seamless summer.
• Any children may come to eat.

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Meal Service

• Serve any combination of two meals per day except
  lunch and supper.
• Use the regular meal patterns.
• Follow the NSLP rules.
• Do not claim second meals.

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Recordkeeping
Timeframe

• cycle menus
• complete daily
• at time of service
• monthly
• return by April 10
• first 3 weeks
• advance approval

• Menus
• Production records
• Meal counts
• NSLP/SBP claim
• Program application
• One monitoring visit
• Off-site meal requests

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Monitoring visit in first 3 weeks

• New sites
• Non-SFA personnel operating the site
• Exception for sites reviewed in last 2 years with
  no problems

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Reimbursement

• Free rate for each childs meal
• 2.47/2.49 lunch/supper
• 1.35/1.61 breakfast
• .68 - snack
• Use severe need breakfast rate at previously
  eligible sites
• Use specially needy lunch rate if agency-eligible

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Reimbursement Process

• Edit checks not required
• Submit regular NSLP/SBP claim for reimbursement.
• Combine claims when 10 days or less operation
• Cannot combine June and July
• Different rates

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Application/Agreement

• Review Part I, Combined Agreement and provide
  updates
• Fill out Part II, Seamless Summer Agreement with
  each sites information.
• Read Part III and keep for your records.
• Include copy of Public Release information sent
  to appropriate media

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Agreement cont.

• Approval for the seamless summer through 2008.
• Submit the application to Child and Adult
  Nutrition Services by April 10.
• Packets will be sent out very soon.

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Consider

• Advertising
• Bussing
• Meal service times
• Special Events
• Partners

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Resources

• DOE Child Adult Nutrition Services
• doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/sfsp/index.asp
• Food Research Action Center
• frac.org/afterschool/summer.html
• USDA Summer Feeding
• www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Summer/Default.htm
• USDA Team Nutrition
• www.fns.usda.gov/tn/

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For further information

• Cassandra Pope or Sandra Kangas
• Child Adult Nutrition Services
• 800 Governors Drive
• Pierre, SD 57501-2235
• 605-773-3413 phone
• 605-773-6846 fax
• Website doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/