Northwest Harvest, WithinReach, Northwest Community Action Center, and Toppenish Food Bank invite you to a meeting for summer-meal sponsors and community partners who care about feeding kids through the Summer Food Service Program in Yakima County.
Date: Friday, March 15, 2013Time: 11am-12:30pm (late morning snacks provided)Place: Northwest Community Action Center, 706 Rentschler Lane (map: www.ncactopp.org/aboutcontact.
We would like to brainstorm together ways to support your efforts and boost participation at summer meal sites throughout the county. We’d also like to troubleshoot those areas where no summer sponsors or meals have been available.
Please join us and invite other community partners to join the conversation about feeding more kids and increasing outreach this summer.
Please join us and invite other community partners to join the conversation about feeding more kids and increasing outreach this summer.
· 37,140 children in Yakima County rely on free/reduced price school meals during the academic year and we want to make sure these kids have meals when school is out!
· During summer 2012, 26,532 fewer meals and snacks were served at summer meals sites than in 2011.
· Yakima county had 39 summer meal sites in 2012. 12 meal sites were open less than 20 days, 18 meal sites were open 20-39 days, 9 meal sites were open 40 days or longer.
You can find the data on your county at http://www.parenthelp123.org/
We are members of a statewide Summer Meals Work Group, which also includes OSPI, Children’s Alliance, School’s Out Washington, Washington Food Coalition, and other community-based organizations. This meeting is designed to focus on your county’s programs and to discuss what’s working, what the challenges are, and how we can work together to strengthen the program for this summer. You are welcome to bring additional staff from your organization/school who also work on your summer meal program and can add expertise to the conversation. There will be others attending who have not yet participated in SFSP who will be on-hand to learn from you, as well as help with outreach.
The mandatory OSPI training for summer sponsors is yet to come, on April 16, 2013 at ESD 105 offices in Yakima.
Please RSVP by email or toll-free 866-894-7428, or contact me with questions. Thank you and I hope to see you on March 15!
Please forward this invitation to others who work with children and families in Yakima County.
Please forward this invitation to others who work with children and families in Yakima County.
Thank you, and I hope to see you next week, Elise
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