OSPI NEWS RELEASE: Sponsors Needed for Summer Meals Program
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Sponsors Needed for Summer Meals Program
OLYMPIA—JANUARY 19, 2017—The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Child Nutrition Services (OSPI CNS) office is pleased to announce the 2017 Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) SFSP was established to ensure that children in lower-income areas would continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations, when they do not have access to school meals. OSPI CNS will be accepting applications beginning April 1, 2017, from organizations interested in sponsoring summer meal sites.
Sponsorship is open to public and private non-profit local educational agencies, residential summer camps, private nonprofit organizations, tribal organizations, and units of local, county, municipal, state, or federal government. Colleges and universities that participate in the Upward Bound Program also may sponsor meal sites.
Eligible sponsors are those who operate a non-profit meal program during the summer for children age 18 and younger. The meal sites must be located in areas where at least 50 percent of the children are qualified for free or reduced-price school meals or where at least 50 percent of the children enrolled in a specific program are eligible for free and reduced-price school meals. All children – regardless of family income level – can receive a free meal at a site once the site has been approved.
Meals must meet the USDA meal pattern requirements. Sponsors may prepare their own meals or purchase them from a school district or food service management company. Sponsors will be reimbursed for eligible meals served.
A sponsor may serve up to two meal types per day per child at each site. This may be a breakfast, breakfast and snack, breakfast and lunch, breakfast and supper, lunch, lunch and snack, snack, AM and PM snacks, supper, or supper and snack. Sites serving primarily migrant children may serve as many as three meal types per day per child, with the option of providing a supper meal.
Contact OSPI CNS at (360) 725-6202 for more information.
In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.
Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.
To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; fax: (202) 690-7442; or email: program.intake@usda.gov.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
Contact
Nathan Olson
OSPI Communications Director
360-725-6015
About OSPI
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is the primary agency charged with overseeing K–12 education in Washington state. Led by State Superintendent Chris Reykdal, OSPI works with the state's 295 school districts and nine educational service districts to administer basic education programs and implement education reform on behalf of more than one million public school students.
OSPI provides equal access to all programs and services without discrimination based on sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability.
Questions and complaints of alleged discrimination should be directed to the Equity and Civil Rights Director at 360-725-6162 or P.O. Box 47200, Olympia, WA 98504-7200.