SY2022-23 Reimbursement Rates Announced
USDA has announced annual adjustments for SY2022-23 reimbursement rates for the National School Lunch Program, Special Milk, School Breakfast Program (SBP) and Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Effective July 1, 2022, the reimbursement schools receive for each meal served will increase by approximately $0.68 per free/reduced-price lunch and $0.32 per free/reduced price breakfast. Learn More

CNR Is Here—Contact Your Legislators!
Contact your Member of Congress and urge them to support the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act (HR 8450). SNA advocated for key provisions in the bill, including strengthening the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) and Direct Certification to increase student access to free school meals, raising the federal reimbursement rate for school lunch and providing commodities for school breakfast to help school nutrition programs manage increased costs and persistent financial challenges. Read More

School Meal Supply Chain Report Spotlights Problems & Solutions
As back-to-school season approaches, a new report chronicles the continued supply chain and labor crisis impacting school meal programs nationwide and the strategies school nutrition professionals employ to ensure students continue to receive healthy meals. “Staying Afloat in a Perfect Storm” details insights from a series of listening sessions with 274 school meal program operators, K-12 industry representatives and State Agency officials. Learn More
Recruit and Win!
When you recruit new members to join the national Association, you win by helping to strengthen your professional organization one voice at a time. Recruitment also makes you eligible to win a monthly prize! Recruit at least one new member each month between August 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023, and you might win a free membership, an SNA Shop gift card or a free class in the SNA Training Zone.

SN Professionals Bring More to the Table!
Each year, SNA offers fun and engaging membership recruitment campaigns with tools to help individual members and State Associations recruit new members. The 2022-23 individual member recruitment campaign, Membership Starts with ME, runs from August 1, 2022, to May 31, 2023.
 
Join the Star Club!
Help build the future of SNA by recruiting new members and retaining existing members. In recognition of your recruiting and retention efforts, you will become part of SNA’s exclusive Star Club! The Star Club is SNA’s way of recognizing and thanking members who recruit and retain SNA members. Each time a new member writes your name in the referral section of the membership application form you receive one credit, plus you get an additional credit every year they renew!
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Do you desire to be the leader known for producing the tasty results everyone talks about and attempts to replicate? In this interactive program, The Seven Skills of Fruitful Leadership, speaker Frank Kitchen will teach you the seven skills needed to create your very own leadership style that produces environments where people and dreams flourish.

Join this webinar at 3 p.m. ET August 17, 2022, brought to you by SNA’s Back-to-School webinar series.
Information Collection: Summer Food Site Locations
USDA has posted notice of a State Agency Information Collection Activity for Summer Food Site Locations.  Written comments are due by September 19, 2022. View the Federal Register notice for submission details.   

USDA Responds to SNA Comment Letter
USDA provided a response to SNA’s comment letter providing recommendations for the Food Program Reporting System (FPRS). SNA’s comments included suggestions for reducing burden hours, consolidation and efficiency. 

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U.S. Department of Education Webinar: Providing Required Compensatory Services That Help Students with Disabilities in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Join the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) at 3 p.m. today, July 27, to learn when a school district must provide compensatory services to students with disabilities who did not receive the services to which they were entitled due to the pandemic and how to do so. In this webinar, subject matter experts will discuss all aspects of compensatory services under Section 504 and the IDEA and parents and state and district level administrators responsible for developing plans to address pandemic related compensatory services will share their experiences. Register now!
October 10-14, 2022

January 15-17, 2022
School Nutrition Industry Conference
For 50 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has provided scholarships for members seeking professional development and national conference attendance, equipment grants, research funding, and education/training. At the center of its mission are four simple words that convey a big message—get, give, learn, teach.