“Two of the policy areas that I care most about are child nutrition and disability issues,” said Senator Bob Dole in an address to the National Food Service Management Institute’s first Nutrition Management for Children with Special Needs in Child Nutrition Programs workshop held October 29-31, 1992 at the Westin Crown Center in Kansas City, […]
Telly Awards For Cooks For Kids
The National Food Service Management Institute (now the Institute of Child Nutrition) and Running Pony Productions jointly received three Telly Awards for Cooks for Kids episodes and production. Episode five of Cooks […]
Technology, means of communication, and many other things have changed, but the mission remains the same. Visit the 30th Anniversary Page to view a clip from a 2003 promotional video, Appreciating the Past, Understanding the Present, Envisioning the Future. The video highlights the services, trainings, and free resources available to child nutrition specialists […]
Courses Available Current Users Course Enrollments Courses Completions
After two full years of providing free, self-paced online courses via ICN’s eLearning Portal, our usage numbers continue to increase, new courses are added and updated on […]
Announcing ICN’s new Child Nutrition Sharing Site!
Team Nutrition’s Healthy Meals Resource System (HMRS) has moved to the Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN) and is now part of ICN’s new Child Nutrition Sharing Site!
The ICN’s Child Nutrition Sharing Site (CNSS) is an online resource center providing […]
The Child Nutrition Recipe Box provides Child Nutrition Program operators with recipes to prepare healthy and delicious meals that meet meal pattern requirements. These recipes are standardized to provide meal pattern crediting information for all meal pattern components and include recipes made with legumes, whole […]
As summer comes to a close, ICN has big things on the way! We continue to see great strides being made with training participants, as well as, with record-breaking face-to-face training requests and online course completions. The ICN S.T.A.R. webinars are now available through the eLearning Portal, as well as two new online courses and […]
This quarter the S.T.A.R. Spotlight is shining on Deb Potter with Prairie Hills USD 113 in Sabetha, Kansas. Brook Brubeck, Prairie Hills USD Food Service Director, shared that Deb was instrumental in getting the principal at her school to participate in the district’s Innovative Breakfast initiative. Deb was a participant in the S.T.A.R. Pilot […]
USDA’s Team Nutrition E-STAR Program is an enhanced version of the ICN STAR (School Nutrition Strategies, Training, Action Plans, and Resources) training program that focuses on school meal quality. On September 4, 2019, the Food and Nutrition Service awarded approximately $2.5 million in Fiscal Year 2019 Team […]
The following new and revised resources have been uploaded to the ICN website this quarter:
