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Cities, Schools & Community Partners: Working Together to Build Healthy Summers

Learn how cities, schools, and community partners in California are collaborating to provide healthy summer meals and activities for children. Discover the benefits of the summer meal programs and the need to address food insecurity and childhood obesity during the summer break. Join the All Hands On Deck Effort and find resources and opportunities to get involved in your community.

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Cities, Schools & Community Partners: Working Together to Build Healthy Summers

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  1. Cities, Schools & Community Partners:Working Together to Build Healthy Summers Patrice Chamberlain California Summer Meal Coalition

  2. Agenda • Welcome, A Look at the Summer Landscape Patrice Chamberlain, California Summer Meal Coalition • City of Hayward: A Community-Wide Response to Feeding Kids Mark Salinas, City of Hayward Council Member • City of Long Beach: Successful Summer Meal Partnerships Darlene Martin, Long Beach Unified School District Tamalyn Sayre, City of Long Beach Parks, Recreation, & Marine • City of Oakland: Working with Community Partners Carmela Chase, City of Oakland Dept. of Human Services • Q + A

  3. Why does summer matter? • Increasing need for free/reduced-price (FRP) lunch during the school year – need continues in summer • In CA, only 16% of those receiving FRP lunch participated in a summer meal program • In addition to higher rate of food insecurity, lack of access to healthy food and physical activity in summer adds to risk of childhood obesity • Kids may gain 2-3x as much weight during summer than during school year • Low-income kids may face greater summer learning loss Sources: California Food Policy Advocates, 2012; National Summer Learning Association, 2012

  4. A Vision for Summer • USDA Summer Food Service Program(SFSP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) / Seamless Summer Feeding Option (SSFO) • Federally-funded program reimburses school districts and community-based agencies to serve free, healthy meals to kids (up to age 18) in low-income areas when school is out • Summer meal programs offer opportunities: • Healthy meals • Nutrition education/physical activity • Enrichment/learning activities • Facilitate community partnerships

  5. An All Hands On Deck Effort • City Leaders • Take an active role in your city’s summer strategy; facilitate partnerships; promote local programs… • School Districts • Become a sponsor or vendor; expand beyond summer school; enhance your program; engage teachers and principals… • Community-Based Agencies/Leaders • Become a summer meal site; promote summer meal sites in your community; recruit volunteers…

  6. California Summer Meal Coalition • Alameda County Comm. Food Bank • California Afterschool Network • California Dept. of Education • California Dept. of Public Health Network for a Healthy California • California Assoc. of Food Banks • California Food Policy Advocates • California School Boards Association • CANFIT • Center for Collaborative Solutions • FIND Food Bank • Food Research & Action Center • Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission • City of Oakland Dept. of Human Services • Partnership for Children & Youth • Redwood Empire Food Bank • Sacramento Hunger Coalition • San Francisco Dept. of Children & Youth • School Districts: Alvord, Bakersfield, Long Beach, Palm Springs, Riverside, San Francisco, Salida, San Diego • YMCA Silicon Valley • Statewide network brought together to address the summer nutrition gap • A program of the Public Health Institute • Members representing broad group of stakeholders: schools, afterschool programs, CBOs, food banks, food policy & anti-hunger, nutrition/physical activity, state agencies • Thanks to Network for a Healthy California for making our work possible!

  7. What We do • Webinars • Monthly eNewsletter • Resources, Templates and Tools • Nutrition Education Resources www.summermealcoalition.org

  8. Contact Information: Patrice Chamberlain Director, California Summer Meal Coalition Public Health Institute 415.637.6815 Patrice.chamberlain@phi.org CA_SummerMeals It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.-Frederick Douglass

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