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Basic page Back to School Toolkit

You are invited to share these messages and resources about how school meals help empower children to grow, learn and thrive.

08/16/2024
Basic page WIC Breastfeeding Performance Bonus Awards

WIC Breastfeeding Performance Bonus Awards build on the WIC program’s longstanding efforts to promote breastfeeding and are intended to recognize and award state agencies that have demonstrated successful breastfeeding promotion and support efforts. 

08/14/2024
Resource | Guidance Documents Guidance for Improving State Agency RPT Rates: Standardizing the Escalation Process

The purpose of this memorandum is to advise state agencies on the steps FNS will take to monitor and engage state agencies with poor SNAP recertification application processing timeliness rates.

07/31/2024
Resource | Technical Assistance Storage and Distribution Strategies for Kosher Foods in TEFAP

Strategies that TEFAP program operators can implement to better serve kosher-observant households.

06/12/2024
Resource | Research and Data | Impacts/Evaluations Evaluation of Child Support Enforcement Cooperation Requirements in SNAP

This report responds to a Congressional mandate in the 2018 Farm Bill for FNS to conduct an evaluation of child support cooperation requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Child support cooperation requirements refer to a set of policies that mandate households receiving certain public benefits cooperate with their state’s child support program as a condition of benefit receipt.

06/06/2024
Resource | Research and Data | Food/Nutrient Analysis WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2: Sixth Year Report

This report, the seventh in the WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study 2 (WIC ITFPS-2)/ “Feeding My Baby” Study focuses on children's dietary intake patterns, eating behaviors, and weight status during the child's 6th year after WIC eligibility has ended. The report also explores whether patterns of WIC participation in early childhood are associated with dietary behaviors and nutrient intakes after WIC eligibility ends.

06/06/2024
Landing WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Modernization

We support the modernization of the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program and the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program.

06/03/2024
Basic page SUN Programs Communications Toolkit

This communications toolkit contains materials for use by agencies implementing the SUN programs – SUN Meals, SUN Meals To-Go, and/or SUN Bucks. Many are customizable so you can tailor them to your specific state, Tribe, or territory.

05/17/2024
Resource | Research and Data | Assessing/Improving Operations CN Program Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic, July 2020 - Dec. 2021

This data collection fulfills states’ reporting requirements and describes trends in program participation during the COVID-19 pandemic from July 2020 through Dec. 2021. It is part of an ongoing study series examining CN program operations, repurposed to collect waiver reports from all states. A previous report in the series detailed waiver usage and trends in program participation and operations from March through Sept. 2020.

04/30/2024
Resource | Technical Assistance Attention: California and Oklahoma SNAP EBT Retailers

SNAP retailer notice with updated guidance for California and Oklahoma retailers participating in the SNAP EBT card Chip and Tap technology testing.

04/26/2024
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