Local officials can play an instrumental role in ensuring that
children in their communities have access to nutritious meals
during out of school hours. Learn more about how you can support
summer meals in your community.
What City Leaders Can Do Now
- Assess the out-of-school time needs of families, along with
the need and availability of summer meals in your community.
- Promote the availability of summer meal programs to the
community.
- Host a convening of city, school and community leaders to
identify strategies to address childhood hunger and establish a
workgroup to plan and help implement these strategies.
- Partner with community organizations that serve summer and
afterschool meals.
- Sponsor an Afterschool or Summer Meal Program.
- Host, or participate in, a community kick-off event to help
raise awareness and increase participation.
What City Leaders Can Do Now
Five Things County Leaders Can Do
- Host a convening of key partners to better understand the
summer landscape and identify opportunities.
- Promote summer meal sites in your county.
- Start or expand summer lunch programs in county libraries.
- Encourage county agencies to play a supporting role.
- Identify opportunities to better serve unincorporated areas
and address summer transportation challenges.
Five Things County Leaders Can Do
Help Families Find Summer Meals in your Community
-
USDA Capacity
Builder: Use USDA’s new mapping tool to find areas of
summer meal needs and service gaps in service in your
community.
- Visit the California Department of Education’s searchable
online
map here
- Call 1-866-3HUNGRY (1-866-348-6479)
or 1-877-8HAMBRE (1-877-842-6273) en
español
- Download the free mobile app, Range
- Text the word FOOD to 877-877
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