Annual Conference
Conference Session
2014-11-15
"Serving Meals Year-round - Navigating the Child Nutrition Programs"Key Areas: State Update
Session: Session C - Saturday, November 15th: 8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
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Speaker(s): Sharon Ray - Manager, Summer Food and Data Management Unit, , California Department of Public Health, Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Branch
Laurie Pennings - Manager, Child and Adult Care Food Program Unit, California Department of Public Health, Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Branch
Pamela Lambert - Director Child Nutrition Services, Oceanside USD
Jose Alvarado - Food Services Director, Fresno Unified SD
Objectives: Understanding why summer food is a year round program
Identifying ways for increasing summer participation
Overcoming barriers to Summer Meal participation
Understanding how to transition from SFSP/Seamless to At-risk Afterschool Supper
Differences between SFSP/Seamless and At Risk Afterschool
Fiscal benefits of a year round meal program
Description: Would you like to provide nutritious meals to your most vulnerable children and keep your food service staff working year round, while keeping your cafeteria fund afloat? Join us as we share information to help you increase participation in summer meals and transition to the At-risk afterschool supper program.
Speaker Bio(s):
Sharon Ray - California Department of Public Health, Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Branch
Speaker Bio:
Sharon Ray, Manager of the Summer Food and Data Management Unit, has worked for the California Department of Education for 21 years, 18 within the Nutrition Services Division. She has specialized in data reporting for more than ten years, and has also overseen the Summer Food Service Program for the past three years.
Laurie Pennings - California Department of Public Health, Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Branch
Speaker Bio:
Laurie Pennings joined the Nutrition Services Division at the California Department of Education four years ago as the Manager of the Child and Adult Care Food Program Unit. Prior to joining CDE, she was the California Obesity Prevention Program Coordinator for one year and the Manager of the Breastfeeding Support Unit at the WIC Branch for thirteen years. Her unit is lead for CACFP policy development, the CACFP application process, providing technical assistance to sponsors, and processing the annual program agreement updates. She has eight program analysts that oversee a caseload of 1300 CACFP agencies with over 6,000 centers and 17,000 day care home providers.
Pamela Lambert - Oceanside USD
Speaker Bio:
Registered Pediatric Dietitian, is currently the Director of Nutrition Services for the Oceanside Unified School District. In 2013, Pamela won the California Food for California Kids Innovation Award from the Center for Ecoliteracy. Pamela is best known for partnering with farmers to provide locally sourced school meals, and for creating new recipes from scratch for students and for her staff.
Jose Alvarado - Fresno Unified SD
Speaker Bio:
Jose Alvarado is the Food Services Director for Fresno Unified School District. He has been in K-12 for over 27 years and 5 years as Food Services Director. He attended and graduated from California State University of Fresno with a degree in Information Systems and a MBA (Master in Business Administration). Each day his team prepares over 88,000 meals, including 25,000 -Breakfast, 55,000 Lunches, and 8,000 afterschool snacks at 104 serving sites. In addition, each day over 800 special diet meals are prepared to meet the special dietary needs of students. Over 82% of the students in Fresno Unified School District are eligible for free meals and operate 83 Provision II sites where all students eat free.
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