30th Anniversary
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 [Read More]
Online Courses Update
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 [Read More]
Announcing ICN’s new Child Nutrition Sharing Site!
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 [Read More]
Team Nutrition’s USDA Standardized Recipes have moved to the Institute of Child Nutrition’s Child Nutrition Recipe Box!
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 [Read More]
A Message from our Executive Director
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. [Read More]
S.T.A.R. Spotlight
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 [Read More]
eSTAR
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 [Read More]
Free Webinars
Take advantage of the FREE webinars available from ICN and USDA! The monthly S.T.A.R. Webinar Series is offered the last Thursday of each month. CACFP Halftime: Thirty on Thursday Training Webinars are held on the third Thursday of each [Read More]