Lunch at the Library: Nourishing Bodies and Minds
In this webinar, learn the tools and tips for starting or expanding a USDA summer meals site and for incorporating lunches into your summer reading program.
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For too many children and teens, summer is a time of hunger and learning loss. Libraries offer the perfect environment to combat childhood hunger and obesity while preventing summer learning loss by offering free, healthy lunch to kids through the USDA Summer Food Service Program. In California, Lunch at the Library was developed to provide tailored support to library staff, offering tools to develop successful public library summer meal programs that draw new families to the library, foster community partnerships, and engage families with learning and enrichment opportunities while school is out. Join us for this webinar to learn about the tools and practical tips for starting or expanding a USDA summer meals site and incorporating lunches into your summer reading program. Even if you’ve been offering summer lunches for years, you’ll come away inspired and ready to plan.
The Summer Food Service Program is a program of the United States Department of Agriculture. Lunch at the Library is a project of the California Library Association and California Summer Meal Coalition and is supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Presented by: Trish Garone, Programs Manager, California Library Association; Patrice Chamberlain, Executive Director, California Summer Meal Coalition; and Jasmin LoBasso, Marketing & Promotions, Kern County Library (CA)
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Related Resources and Links
- California Summer Meal Coalition
- Lunch at the Library
- Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
- FairData Summer Food Mapper provides census data to assess eligibility
- Summer Nutrition Status Report: Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation
- U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)
- How to Participate in Summer Meals (pdf)
- USDA Capacity Builder
- UDSA meal programs State Agency Contacts
- USDA Summer Meals Toolkit
- USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
- SNAP-Ed Connection: Explore opportunity to partner with your local health department or other agency that may be working through USDA to conduct nutrition education and promote healthy eating. USDA also has many free resources that you can have at your site (either downloadable or they can mail them to you). There are also opportunities to partner with your local health dept or agencies that are working to promote nutrition.
- How to Participate in Summer Meals (pdf)
- Feeding America to find your local food bank
- Hunger and Libraries: Snacks, Backpacks and More
- Beyond Food for Fines: Libraries, Food Banks and Feeding America, WebJunction 2017 webinar
- Kern County Library Summer Highlights video
- Kern County Library in New York Times, Free Lunch at the Library
- Resources to help engage local hospitals and healthcare providers, Addressing Food Insecurity: A Toolkit for Pediatricians frac.org/aaptoolkit, and from AAP, Hunger Screening: Pediatrician Trainees Challenge Providers to Feed the Need
Date
06 February 2018
Time
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Venue
Webinar
Webinar presenter Trish Garone
Webinar presenter Patrice Chamberlain
Webinar presenter Jasmin LoBasso
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