Child Nutrition Program – Operator Submitted Resources

Target audience: wellness committee, school administrators, school personnel Objectives Understand importance of collaborating with community health professionals. Identify health partners and how to connect to build healthy school environments

Class provides information on the development, structure and cognitive function of the brain, while highlighting nutrition’s impact on cognition and academic achievement; covers best practices on how schools can play a role in optimizing nutrition.

Target Audience - Schools, PE teachers, Health/Wellness teachers Class Objectives: -Define Brain Breaks, -Discuss benefits of Brain Breaks - Learn how to implement Brain Breaks - Brain Break Ideas -Tools and Resources for Schools

Schools can use this resource to help them find alternative options to food rewards. This resource outlines benefits of active rewards and includes ways to recognize achievement with physical activity rewards along with implementation tips.

Schools can use this resource to encourage walking or biking to school. This resource: - Outlines benefits of walking or biking to school - Provides tips to getting started and implementing - Addresses solutions to perceived challenges

This resource can be utilized to promote recess before lunch and encourage schools to increase unstructured physical activity during the school day. It explains the benefits of morning recess and outlines challenges and solutions to implementing.

Healthy Kansas Menus revised in 2019, include additional foods from dark green, red/orange, dry beans/peas subgroups ensuring greater variety of fresh fruits and vegetables offered. Updated menus are also lower in sodium meeting sodium Target 2.

Target Audience: CACFP Organizations. Purpose: Review of crediting grains using the ounce equivalent serving sizes. Learning Objectives: Understanding Ounce Equivalents, know the available resources.

Target Audience: CACFP Operators. Purpose: Review of changes to the CACFP Meal Pattern with a focus on changes to jerky, popcorn, surimi, tempeh, vegetable pasta, coconut, hominy, corn masa, and corn flour.

Target Audience: CACFP organizations. Purpose: Review of requirements for the grains component, including creditable and whole grain-rich (WGR) grains. Learning Objectives: Review of grains component and resources.

Target Audience: CACFP Organizations. Purpose: Review of the infant meal pattern. Learning Objectives: Understand the infant meal pattern and review of examples and resources.

Target Audience: CACFP Center-Based Organizations. Purpose: Discuss best practices for integrating different cultural foods in a CACFP menu. Learning Objectives: What is Cultural Foods and a roadmap to serving cultural foods.

Target Audience: CACFP Operators. Purpose: Review and walk-through of the USDA Food Buying Guide website and associated tools. Learning Objective: Understand the purpose of the Food Buying Guide and know the functions that are available.

Target Audience: CACFP Center-Based Sponsors who use Family Style Meal Service. Purpose: Overview of the requirements when utilizing Family Style Meal Service. Learning Objectives: What is Family Style. Reviewing Common Scenarios.

Target Audience: CACFP Center-Based Sponsors with Afterschool At-Risk Programs or Adult Day Care Programs. Purpose: overview of CACFP Offer Versus Serve (OVS) requirements. Learning Objectives: Understand what OVS is and its requirements.

Target Audience: CACFP Center-Based Organizations with Adult Day Care Centers. Purpose: Provide targeted information on the adult meal pattern. Learning Objectives: 1. Review the adult meal pattern. 2. Provide resources.

Target Audience: CACFP Center-Based Organizations. Purpose: Helping CACFP operators review their menus for CACFP meal pattern requirements. Learning Objectives: 1. Review the menu monitoring checklist. 2. Go over a menu example.

Target Audience: CACFP Center-Based Organizations. Purpose: Provide an overview of the CACFP Meal Pattern. Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the CACFP meal pattern including who it serves and the meal components. 2. Where to find resources.