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Child
and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) |
USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food
Program plays a vital role in
improving the quality of day
care and making it more
affordable for many low-income
families. Each day, 2.6 million
children receive nutritious
meals and snacks through CACFP.
The program also provides meals
and snacks to 74,000 adults who
receive care in nonresidential
adult day care centers. CACFP
reaches even further to provide
meals to children residing in
homeless shelters, and snacks
and suppers to youths
participating in eligible
afterschool care programs.
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Commodity Supplemental Food
Program (CSFP) |
CSFP works to improve the health
of low-income pregnant and
breastfeeding women, other new
mothers up to one year
postpartum, infants, children up
to age six, and elderly people
at least 60 years of age by
supplementing their diets with
nutritious USDA commodity foods.
It provides food and
administrative funds to States
to supplement the diets of these
groups.
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Eat Smart Play Hard |
Eat Smart. Play Hard.TM is about
making America's children
healthier. It's about practical
suggestions that will help you
motivate children and their
caregivers to eat healthy and be
active. The Eat Smart. Play
Hard.TM Campaign messages and
materials are fun for children
and informative for caregivers.
To make your job easier, we have
kid-tested the messages and
based them on the Food Guide
Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines
for Americans.
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Farmers' Market Nutrition
Program (FMNP) |
The WIC Farmers’ Market
Nutrition Program (FMNP)
provides fresh, unprepared,
locally grown fruits and
vegetables from local farmers'
markets to Women, Infants and
Children (WIC) recipients.
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Food Distribution Program on
Indian Reservations (FDPIR) |
FDPIR is a Federal program that
provides commodity foods to
low-income households, including
the elderly, living on Indian
reservations, and to Native
American families residing in
designated areas near
reservations.
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Food Assistance for Disaster
Relief |
FNS’s Food Distribution Division
has the primary responsibility
of supplying food to disaster
relief organizations such as the
Red Cross and the Salvation Army
for mass feeding or household
distribution. Disaster
organizations request food and
nutrition assistance through
State agencies that run USDA’s
nutrition assistance programs.
State agencies notify USDA of
the types and quantities of food
that relief organizations need
for emergency feeding
operations.
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National School Lunch Program
(NSLP) |
School districts and independent
schools that choose to take part
in the lunch program get cash
subsidies and donated
commodities from the USDA for
each meal they serve. In return,
they must serve lunches that
meet Federal requirements, and
they must offer free or reduced
price lunches to eligible
children. School food
authorities can also be
reimbursed for snacks served to
children through age 18 in
afterschool educational or
enrichment programs.
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School Breakfast Program (SBP) |
The School Breakfast Program
operates in the same manner as
the National School Lunch
Program. School districts
and independent schools that
choose to take part in the
breakfast program receive cash
subsidies from the USDA for each
meal they serve. In return, they
must serve breakfasts that meet
Federal requirements, and they
must offer free or reduced price
breakfasts to eligible children.
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Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition
Program (SFMNP) |
The Senior Farmers’ Market
Nutrition Program awards grants
to States, United States
territories, and
federally-recognized Indian
tribal governments to provide
low-income seniors with coupons
that can be exchanged for
eligible foods at farmers’
markets, roadside stands, and
community supported agriculture
programs.
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Special Milk Program (SMP) |
Participating schools and
institutions receive
reimbursement from the USDA for
each half pint of milk served.
They must operate their milk
programs on a non-profit basis.
They agree to use the Federal
reimbursement to reduce the
selling price of milk to all
children.
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State Processing Program |
The State Processing Program
allows States and eligible
recipient agencies such as
school districts to contract
with commercial food processors
to convert bulk or raw USDA
commodities into more convenient
ready-to-use end products. Most
of the commodities processed
through this program go to
schools participating in the
National School Lunch Program.
Once the donated food is made
available to States, the overall
organization and administration
of the State Processing Program
become the responsibilities of
the State agency.
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Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) |
SFSP is the single largest
Federal resource available for
local sponsors who want to
combine a feeding program with a
summer activity program.
Children in your community do
not need to go hungry this
summer. During the school year,
nutritious meals are available
through the National School
Lunch and School Breakfast
Programs. But those programs end
when school ends for the summer.
The Summer Food Service Program
helps fill the hunger gap.
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Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) |
SNAP (formerly the Food Stamp
Program)
puts healthy food within reach
for 28 million people each month
via an EBT card used to purchase
food at most grocery stores.
Through nutrition education
partners, SNAP helps clients
learn to make healthy eating and
active lifestyle choices.
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Team Nutrition |
Team Nutrition is a USDA
initiative to provide training
and technical assistance for
foodservice, nutrition education
for children and their
caregivers, and school and
community support for healthy
eating and physical activity.
Team Nutrition's Goal is to
improve children's lifelong
eating and physical activity
habits by using the principles
of the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans and the Food Guide
Pyramid.
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The Emergency Food Assistance
Program (TEFAP) |
Under TEFAP, commodity foods are
made available by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to
States. States provide the food
to local agencies that they have
selected, usually food banks,
which in turn, distribute the
food to soup kitchens and food
pantries that directly serve the
public.
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Women, Infants and Children
(WIC) |
The Special Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants, and Children - better
known as the WIC Program -
serves to safeguard the health
of low-income women, infants, &
children up to age 5 who are at
nutritional risk by providing
nutritious foods to supplement
diets, information on healthy
eating, and referrals to health
care.
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Last modified:
06/05/2009
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