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Dade County School Food Service Authority, Florida 12 ReCharge! Healthy After-school Snack Guide — Snack Programs in Action District Demographics: • 365,000 students • 64 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price school meals • Large urban district After-school Snack Program: • About 10,400 children receive a snack each day. • Over 100 after-school programs located in schools participate. • All of the programs are located in low-income areas. Snack Menus: • Some of the most popular snack menus include half sandwiches, pudding and cereal. • The after-school programs provide feedback informally to the school nutrition department on children’s snack preferences. Process for Serving the Snack: • The snacks are prepared by the school nutrition department at the kitchen of each school. The snacks are then left in a designated area, such as the refrigerator or the milk box, for access by the after-school program. • The children eat the snacks in the dining room and the after-school program staff is responsible for cleaning up the area. • Olga Botero, Director of Special Programs, puts clear guidelines in place before starting. She also provides training to the after-school program staff each year to ensure that the full snack is served and that the after-school program takes a proper meal count each day. • The school nutrition coordinator at each school monitors the after-school snack program. They conduct a review during the first month of operation and a second review later in the school year.
ReCharge! Healthy After-school Snack Guide — Snack Programs in Action Funding and Costs: • Prior to the 2000-2001 school year, the school nutrition department provided snacks and charged after-school programs 50 cents per snack. • Now each snack costs about 63 cents, which means that most of the food costs are covered by the NSLP reimbursement. The after-school programs pay only 5 cents per snack to cover labor, supplies and other indirect costs, resulting in a more substantial snack at a 90% cost reduction. Challenges and Solutions: • The biggest challenge is balancing the cost of items with the nutritional content. The snacks can’t be too sweet or too salty, and they need to be foods that the children will eat. While it is a challenge, Botero believes the menus are well accepted by the after-school programs and the children. Creative Practices: • In addition to providing snacks through NSLP to the 101 school-sponsored programs, the Dade County School Food Service is the vendor for 160 other after-school programs, including the YWCAs, the Family Christian Association and migrant programs. Many of these programs participate in Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) to cover the costs of their after-school snacks. Response to the Program: • When Botero visits the after-school programs, staff members tell her that the snack has to be served first before any other activity. Otherwise, the children have a difficult time participating in educational activities. By giving the children the fuel they need to learn, the snack plays a similar role at the end of the day that school breakfast plays at the start. For more information, contact: Olga Botero Director of Special Programs Department of Food and Nutrition 7042 W. Flager St. Miami, FL 33144 (786) 275-0445 obotero@sbab.dade.k12.fl.us Dade County School Food Service Authority, Florida 13
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