Summer Meals
The USDA requires ALL School Nutrition Sponsors to conduct Summer Meals Outreach
Schools communicate regularly and effectively with the families of children in their community. You can help reach out and connect these families with Summer Meals before the school year ends and continue to make a difference in the lives of your students all summer long. It is required that every school participating in the National School Lunch Program provide information to their community on the availability of Summer Meals, even if they are not a sponsor or site for Summer Meals.
Childhood food insecurity remains at unacceptable levels across the country and children are most acutely at risk in the summer when they do not have access to school meals. There were 646 sites in the summer of 2015 across Connecticut offering free meals to children 18 years and younger, yet only 1 out of 4 of CT’s children who qualify for free or reduced meals are being reached.
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