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States > Outreach Initiative
Seamless
Summer Waiver
An Opportunity for School Districts
An
Opportunity for School Districts
Schools -
Are there hungry kids in your district
when school is out?
- It’s
now easier to feed those kids! You
can apply to operate the Seamless
Summer Food Waiver through FY 2004.
What is
it?
- The
Seamless Summer Food Waiver combines
features of the National School
Lunch Program (NSLP), the School
Breakfast Program (SBP), and the
Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)
with reduced paperwork.
How Does
it Work?
- Once
the waiver is approved, schools
sponsor sites in low-income areas
that feed kids ages 18 years and
under
- Most
SFSP sites are eligible-- in schools
or non-school settings. Here are the
types of sites allowed:
- Open
sites (all children eat free in
communities where at least 50% of
the children are eligible for
free/reduced price school meals)
- Restricted
open sites (open sites restricted
for safety, control, or security
and meets the 50% criteria
explained above)
- Closed
enrolled sites (may be in any
community for an enrolled group of
low-income children and meets the
50% criteria explained above. This
excludes summer schools.)
- Migrant
sites (serving children of migrant
families)
- Camps
(residential or non-residential
camps)
- NSLP/
SBP rules apply for meal service
- Meals
are reimbursed at the free NSLP/SBP
rates (at camps only the meals for
income eligible children are
reimbursed)
- Up to
2 types of meals per day can be
reimbursed (3 for migrant sites and
camps)
Why
Should Schools Do This?
- Your
community needs it -- kids still
need good food, even when school is
out
- It’s
easy - continue the same meal
service rules and claiming
procedures used during the school
year
- Reduced
paperwork and monitoring rules
(compared to running different child
nutrition programs)
How to
Apply?
- Click
here to contact your NSLP
State agency for more
information
- Your
State agency will submit the waiver
requests to FNS regional offices
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