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            USDA Announces Approval of D-SNAP for California Disaster Areas
      USDA announced that low-income California residents recovering from severe storms and power outages beginning Jan. 21, 2024, could be eligible for a helping hand from the USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
      03/01/2024
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            American Samoa Launching New USDA Program This Year to Help Nourish School Children During Summer
      To further address food insecurity in American Samoa and provide more equitable resources for island communities, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service will provide a higher benefit to American Samoa families, as compared to the U.S. mainland, through the new, permanent summer nutrition program for children – known as Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer.
      01/29/2024
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            Hawaii Launching New USDA Program This Year to Help Nourish School Children During Summer
      To further address food insecurity in Hawaii and provide more equitable resources for island communities, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service will provide a higher benefit to Hawaii families, as compared to the U.S. mainland, through the new, permanent summer nutrition program for children – known as Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer.
      01/29/2024
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            USDA Approves Demonstration Project to Reduce Food Insecurity in Rural Alaska
      USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (has approved the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development’s request to create a demonstration project, Alaska Meals to You, to reduce food insecurity in rural Alaska.
      01/17/2024
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            FNS Awards Thousands to the County of Monterey Department of Social Services in CA to Enhance Efficiency and Access in SNAP
      The Western Regional Office of USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service awarded the County of Monterey Department of Social Services in California $858,348  to enhance efficiency and access in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.
      09/29/2023
    Critical Need to Increase Food Security in Rural Alaska
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            Critical Need to Increase Food Security in Rural Alaska
      A key part of our work to end hunger, improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and reduce diet-related diseases is focusing on historically under-served areas, like rural and Tribal communities. Alaska, for instance, faces unique challenges.
      09/20/2023
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            FNCS Supports Food Sovereignty of Tribal Nations
      Stacy Dean, FNCS Deputy Under Secretary , was inspired by how three tribes - Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe - are dreaming big in terms of food sovereignty through FDIPR and SNAP.
      08/01/2023
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            Washington to Test New Way to Encourage Healthy Eating in SNAP
      Washington will receive $7.6 million to test out a new model for incentivizing fruit and vegetable purchases among participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.
      06/29/2023
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            USDA Announces Approval of D-SNAP for Guam Disaster Areas
      The USDA announced that low-income residents of Guam recovering from Super Typhoon Mawar beginning May 22, 2023, could be eligible for a helping hand from the USDA’s D-SNAP.
      06/20/2023
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            USDA Applauds Washington’s Tribal Eligibility Demonstration Project Expansion
      USDA FNS has approved the Washington Department of Social and Health Services’ request to expand their Tribal Eligibility Demonstration Project to five additional tribal nations.
      06/15/2023
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            Farm to School and Child Nutrition Programming Model in Rialto, California
      The RUSD community exemplifies the commitment to healthy food for kids – a priority of the USDA and the Biden-Harris Administration. That commitment can produce an entire school community that embraces and supports the notion of serving and teaching kids about healthy foods.
      05/10/2023
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            USDA Announces Approval of D-SNAP for California Disaster Areas
      USDA announced that low-income California residents in seven counties (Kern, Mariposa, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Tulare, and Tuolumne) recovering from the impact of severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides that began on Feb. 21, 2023, could be eligible for USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
      04/13/2023
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            Industry Partners’ Role in School Meals is Crucial
      Food industry partners play a crucial role in producing, procuring and delivering food for our school meal programs. Despite the challenges that industry and school food service operators have encountered over the past few years, they have continued delivering food and serving nutritious meals to tens of millions of children every day.
      03/23/2023
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            Alaskan Self-Determination Demonstration Project Supports Tribal Health, Sovereignty
      USDA FNS supports indigenous health and tribal sovereignty through FDPIR Self-Determination Demonstration Projects. The Alaska Native Health Consortium, operates a FDPIR self-determination demonstration project that provides foods to 18 tribes across Alaska.
      03/20/2023
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            School Meals Served up Fresh in Southern California
      The Urban School Food Alliance winter meeting in Los Angeles, California included FNS sessions focused on child nutrition programs. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions about the child nutrition programs they administer, including the recent updates.
      03/10/2023
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            USDA Helps Strengthen School Meal Programs in Guam
      FNS is increasing the reimbursement rates that child nutrition program operators receive for meals served in Guam from 17% to 30% above the contiguous United States rates. In recognition of the higher food costs in these locations, the increased reimbursement rates will begin on July 1 to help ensure Guam schools have access to the resources needed to continue serving children nutritious, high-quality food while also building a stronger, more competitive, and more resilient local food system.
      02/07/2023
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            USDA Helps Strengthen School Meal Programs in Hawaii
      FNS is increasing the reimbursement rates that child nutrition program operators receive for meals served in Hawaii from 17% to 30% above the contiguous United States rates. In recognition of the higher food costs in these locations, the increased reimbursement rates will begin on July 1 to help ensure Hawaii schools have access to the resources needed to continue serving children nutritious, high-quality food while also building a stronger, more competitive, and more resilient local food system.
      02/07/2023
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            USDA Announces Approval of D-SNAP for California Disaster Areas
      USDA announced that low-income California residents recovering from severe storms that began on Dec. 27, 2022, which caused flooding, landslides, and mudslides, could be eligible for a helping hand from the USDA’s D-SNAP.
      02/03/2023
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            Oregon to Participate in School Meals Demonstration Project Enabling Direct Certification Through Medicaid
      The USDA FNS Western Regional Office announced Oregon is one of fourteen states that have been selected to participate in the expansion of a demonstration project to evaluate the impact of using Medicaid eligibility data to directly certify students from low-income households to receive free and reduced-price school meals.
      01/12/2023
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            USDA Food Assistance Programs at Work in Guam and CNMI
      On August 14-19, a leadership team traveled to Guam and the Commonwealth of Northern Marianna Islands to meet with the territories’ leadership, superintendents and commissioners, that administer USDA food assistance programs. They discussed the challenges of transitioning back to pre-pandemic operations, how USDA could assist, and lessons learned.
      10/12/2022

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