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Basic page Navigating Non-Congregate SFSP (Sun Meals To-Go): Parent or Guardian Pick-Up

In the Summer Food Service Program, parent or guardian pick-up is a meal service option for which approved sponsors may distribute meals to parents or guardians to take home to their children.

01/15/2025
Basic page Navigating Non-Congregate SFSP (Sun Meals To-Go): Site Proximity

In the Summer Food Service Program, site proximity refers to the minimum distance between approved sites, based on population density and accessibility to participants.

01/15/2025
Basic page Navigating Non-Congregate SFSP (Sun Meals To-Go): Site Caps

To maintain program integrity and ensure the site is meeting the intended purpose, site caps for rural non-congregate meal sites must accurately reflect the needs of the targeted rural communities being served.

01/15/2025
Resource | Policy Offer Versus Serve and Family Style Meals in CACFP

The purpose of this memorandum is to outline the use of Offer Versus Serve in the adult day care and at-risk afterschool settings, as well as the use of family style meals in the Child and Adult Care Food Program. 

10/28/2024
Resource | Guidance Documents Small Entity Compliance Guide

This guide informs small entities participating in child nutrition programs about the final rule, Child Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and how to comply with it. This guide does not include any new requirements; it just summarizes existing guidance related to the final rule.

06/27/2024
Resource | Policy Memos Implementation of Summer EBT in 2024 by WIC Indian Tribal Organizations

This memorandum provides information to assist Indian Tribal Organizations (ITO) in preparing to implement Summer EBT.

06/13/2023
Resource | Policy SFSP Site Supervisor's Guide

A smoothly run site for the Summer Food Service Program for children is something that every sponsor and site staff hopes to achieve.

05/17/2023
Resource | Policy SFSP Sponsor Monitor's Guide

This guidance is designed to give you, as a monitor for a program sponsor, a working knowledge of the SFSP and your duties and responsibilities as the sponsor’s representative.

05/16/2023
Resource | Policy Administrative Review Guidance and Tools

The National School Lunch Program regulations specify the requirements for conducting Administrative Reviews. The documents on this page include the Administrative Review Manual and other documents and tools available for conducting these compliance reviews.

07/15/2020
Resource | Policy Memos Policy Cancellation Memorandum

FNS is cancelling Policy Memoranda FD-010, FD-027, FD-028, FD-029, FD-032, FD-053, FD-055, FD-071, FD-073, FD-074, FD-083, FD-086, FD-087, FD-090, FD-105, and FD-115. The guidance provided by these memoranda are either outdated, obsolete, or otherwise captured in more current memoranda.

12/27/2019
Page updated: October 14, 2021