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Summer Food Service Program

Summer Food Service Program

Everybody Wins with Summer Food!

The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) was instituted to provide nutritious meals to children during the summer months when school is not in session. The program is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and administered by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).

Sponsoring organizations include:

The 2008 maximum reimbursement rates for the SFSP are as follows:

 
Administrative
Operating Rural or Self-Prep Other
Breakfast
$1.57
$0.1575
$0.1225
Lunch/Supper
$2.75
$0.2875
$0.2375
Supplement
$0.64
$0.0775
$0.0625

An alternative to the SFSP for providing meals to your children in the summer months is the Seamless Summer Option, formerly Seamless Summer Waiver. This program is available to local education agencies that already participate in the National School Lunch (NSLP) and/or School Breakfast Program (SBP). Some school food service authorities feel the Seamless Summer Option better meets their needs and requires less paperwork and monitoring requirements than the SFSP. Click below on Seamless Summer Option for more information. Please remember that schools who offer academic summer school only will not be able to participate in either program unless they open their doors to the community; otherwise, the schools must extend their NSLP/SBP to include these months.

If you participated in the summer program last year, the 2009 application will become available on March 16, 2009 in IWAS.  ALL OTHER SPONSORS WILL NEED TO CLICK ON THE NEW SPONSORS LINK BELOW.  Sponsor applications will be accepted from March 16, 2009 through Monday, June1, 2009.  New Sponsors will need to attend a New Sponsor Orientation.  Dates and locations will be posted below under Workshop Information by Monday, December 1, 2008.