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State Budget Prioritizes
Breakfast After the Bell
This week Governor Brown signed the state budget bills for the 2016-17 fiscal year, solidifying a big win for school breakfast! The education omnibus trailer bill provides an additional $2 million dollars in grant funds for public schools that want to startup or expand after-the-bell breakfast programs. These funds, available over a two-year period (school years 2017-18 and 2018-19), will improve access to school breakfast on hundreds of campuses for tens of thousands of low-income students. These new funds prioritize grants for after-the-bell breakfast in high-poverty schools, and were allocated to expand an existing grant program available for schools to start or expand any type of breakfast or summer meal program.
Improved access to school breakfast means California kids will be better prepared to learn, grow, and achieve at their fullest potential.
Thank you for calling on the state to invest in breakfast after the bell. This success is thanks to advocates like you who insist that all California kids get a fair shot at success. Check out this video featuring Robin McNulty who testified about the benefits of after-the-bell breakfast at the May 3rd hearing of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance.
What's Next?
With the additional grant funds now secure, CFPA looks forward to working with state and local partners, including the California Department of Education, to maximize the reach and positive impact of the after-the-bell breakfast grants. Stay tuned for more details.
To learn more, visit our Breakfast After the Bell
page
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Questions?
Please contact
Tia Shimada
at 510.433.1122 ext 109
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AB 2054 (Thurmond) Continues Its Unanimous Run, Moves On To Senate Appropriations
Yesterday, AB 2054 (Thurmond) -- Summer EBT for Children, passed out of the Senate Human Services Committee with a unanimous, bipartisan vote.
What's Next?
The next test for AB 2054 will be the Senate Appropriations Committee. This is a critical juncture for the bill -- we need your continued support to move forward!
- Submit a letter of support to Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee. You can download a customizable letter of support and instructions for submitting your letter. doc
- Tweet your support for AB 2054. Sample tweets are included below.
- World's 6th largest economy & the nation's worst child poverty rate? #AB2054 will fight child hunger in CA. @senricardolara @CAFoodPolicy
- Support #AB2054 - it's time to fight hunger and poverty for CA kids! @senricardolara @SenatorPatBates @CAFoodPolicy
- Bring in federal funds to prevent childhood hunger in CA - support #AB2054 @senricardolara @SenatorPatBates @CAFoodPolicy
- All kids deserve healthy food to learn, grow & achieve. Support #AB2054: Summer EBT for CA! @senricardolara @SenatorPatBates @CAFoodPolicy
- TY @TonyThurmond @ilike_mike for supporting #AB2054 to fight child hunger with Summer EBT. @senricardolara @SenatorPatBates @CAFoodPolicy
Learn more about summer hunger in your community. Access county-level data and read CFPA's latest report on the summer nutrition gap in California. link The details AB 2054 will help fight child hunger by preparing California to implement federally funded Summer EBT for Children. The bill would require the state to (1) pursue all available federal funding and authority to operate a system that will deliver Summer EBT for Children to eligible families and (2) prepare to establish such a system. Amendments were taken to ensure that the California Health and Human Services Agency designates the appropriate state agency or agencies to acts to fulfill these requirements.
Questions? Contact Tracey Patterson at 510.433.1122 ext 101
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CFPA In the News!
School's Out...Who Ate?
CFPA's annual School's Out...Who Ate? report on summer hunger recently received press coverage in a number of California news outlets. Read what others are saying about the summer nutrition gap in their communities and ways to address summer hunger locally and statewide.
Amid abundance, some aren't getting enough,
Half Moon Bay Review
, PDF
Monterey County Boys & Girls Clubs pick up when school ends,
Monterey County Herald,
PDF
School's out, but lunch program isn't, Marysville
Appeal Democrat,
PDF
California's summer nutrition gap affected over 1.7 million of our state's most vulnerable children and youth last summer. CFPA's
School's Out...Who Ate?
report examines statewide trends in summer meal participation, provides county-specific data, and offers recommendations to ensure that all of California's kids are well nourished during the summer.
Access the
School's Out...Who Ate?
full report, local data, and related resources. link
Questions? Contact
Anna Colby
at 213.482.8200 ext 204
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Save the Date! Water Access and Quality Convening August 12 in Oakland
CFPA invites you to attend this year's Water Access and Quality Convening.
The event will be taking place
August 12, 2016 at the California Endowment in Oakland from 10 am to 3:30 pm.
The convening will bring together a diverse group of organizations and stakeholders interested in improving water access and quality for children and communities across California. We will also be highlighting recent policy efforts and strategies being employed to increase the consumption and availability of water in schools, community settings, and federal nutrition programs.
Register for the convening.
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