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Resource | Policy Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 – Promoting Real Food in Child Nutrition Programs

In this program guidance, Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke L. Rollins, strongly encourages child nutrition program operators to familiarize themselves with the key recommendations and consider how the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 can be incorporated into program meals and snacks to promote healthy outcomes and healthy families.

02/11/2026
Resource | Policy Information Collection: OMB Generic Clearance for the Annual Survey of School Food Authorities

The studies encompassed under this information collection will collect data from school food authorities administering the child nutrition programs, including information on emerging and ongoing challenges, their impacts on operations and student participation, and strategies SFAs are undertaking to address challenges they face.

01/23/2026
Resource | Policy Proposed Information Collection: Generic Clearance To Conduct Formative Research or Development of Nutrition Education and Promotion Materials and Related Tools and Grants for FNS Population Groups

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other interested parties to comment on a proposed information collection. This collection is an extension of a currently approved collection to conduct research in support of FNS' goal of delivering science-based nutrition education to targeted audiences.

05/29/2025
Resource | Technical Assistance First 100 Days at FNS

President Trump made a commitment to the American people to cut wasteful spending, Make America Healthy Again, and to combat fraud, waste, and abuse—restoring common sense to government. Under the leadership of Secretary Rollins, USDA’s FNS has taken swift and decisive action to be representative of the change the American people voted for.

05/02/2025
Resource | Research and Data Child Nutrition Program Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic - July 2021 through September 2022

This data collection fulfills states' reporting requirements and describes trends in program participation during the COVID-19 pandemic from July 2021 through September 2022. It is part of an ongoing study series examining child nutrition program operations, repurposed to collect waiver usage and trends in program participation and operations during the pandemic.

03/18/2025
Resource | Training and Outreach SNAP E&T 2024 National Forum: Registered Apprenticeships and SNAP E&T

Registered Apprenticeship is an industry-driven, high-quality career pathway where employers can develop and prepare their future workforce, and individuals can obtain paid work experience, receive progressive wage increases, classroom instruction and a portable, nationally recognized credential. In this session, attendees learn how to sponsor a Registered Apprenticeship program and/or participate as an apprentice and start building your career.

12/12/2024
Resource | Training and Outreach SNAP E&T 2024 National Forum: Workforce Board Partnerships for Strategic Collaboration and Sustainable Growth

State and local Workforce Development Boards offer important strategic partnership opportunities for SNAP agencies and SNAP E&T programs by offering onramps to career pathway training, a pipeline to high-quality jobs with local employers and access to workforce services and funding that extend beyond the SNAP E&T program. 

12/12/2024
Resource | Training and Outreach SNAP E&T 2024 National Forum: The Fiscal Life Journey of the SNAP E&T Program

This session took attendees through the fiscal life journey of SNAP E&T programs from a fiscal perspective.

12/12/2024
Resource | Training and Outreach SNAP E&T 2024 National Forum: Moving Forward to Improve SNAP E&T Data

This session provided participants with an overview of the three-year long assessment of the SNAP E&T Data Reporting project and the creation of DATASET.

12/12/2024
Resource | Training and Outreach SNAP E&T 2024 National Forum: SNAP E&T 101

This session was a brief overview of SNAP E&T history and policy basics.

12/12/2024
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