CAN Nutrition and Physical Activity Committee Meeting Summary
July 8, 2014
Next Steps:
 A draft work plan will be provided to the Committee for review and discussion
during the September 9th meeting.
 Upcoming dates for Nu and PA Committee Meetings: September 9 and November
12 (all Tuesdays, 10-11:30 a.m.). Other dates to TBD via Doodle Poll
Sharing promising practices
 Alyson Wylie – connecting with local health departments
 Sarah Heidel – being on site and observing, and seeing how youth respond to the
great ideas we discuss
 Kathy Lewis – Supporting RLS to work with expanded learning programs to
promote the meal program
 Ian Keiler – Updating Coach Action Plans, increasing the understanding the
resources available and increasing intentionality of lesson planning.
 Susan Vittuli – NEOP, CDPH – local health departments
 Theresa Milavich – Launching a new grant learned about through Networking with
CAN staff and Nutrition and Physical Activity Committee Co-chairs.
 Bruno Marchesi – utilizing produce from a school-based garden to do cooking
demonstrations.
 Maya Oubre – Working with the programs to remove unhealthy foods from the
program and increase the healthy items (i.e. eliminating soda, removing vending
machines, and eliminating soda from vendors that sell things outside of school)
 Deborah Tamannaie – Seeking to increase partnership between two statewide
departments to institutionalize healthy environments
 Arnell Hinkle – working with youth to institutionalize career pathways regarding
health, gardens
 Normandie Nigh – Turning PA into a consistently quality experience, and share their
training and pd with other providers.
 Aleah Rosario – Coaching Corps – training parents so that parents and family
members can reinforce nutrition and pa concepts.
 Steve Fowler – Potential promising practice – the Wisconsin after school network is
increasing connection with state agencies so that state (i.e. medical) funding can be
used to support wellness in expanded learning.
 Jessica Hay – School gardens creating great environments
Highlighting the work of the Committee:
Meals
 Supported and promoted the meal program, currently nearly ½ of expanded
learning programs are participating.
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Developed and disseminated resources, both print, and video-based to support
quality implementation of the meal program.
Access resources at - http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/after-school-mealprogram
NEOP
 Provided information and resources on connecting to your local health departments
through Committee meetings, creating a print document “primer” on connecting to
local health departments, and today’s youth engagement presentation is focused on
this topic.
 Learn more and access resources at http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/neop
Summer Food
 Worked closely with the summer food coalition on Summer Meals outreach. The
number of youth that qualify for FRPM in the school year is about 4million, but
about 400,000 access summer food.
 Created and disseminated information / resources on summer meal program.
 Access at - http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/summer-meal-program
Provide guidance to older youth conferences
 CAN facilitated eight older youth conferences. The conferences featured workshops
on Nutrition and PA and served healthy snacks and meals.
Promoting Best Practices
 Dedicating time during the committee meetings for presentations regarding the
work that other practitioners are doing in the field.
 Access all the presentations at - http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/committeemeeting-dates-notes
State of the State of Expanded Learning
 This widely distributed document had a strong focus on Nutrition and Physical
Activity – featured meal data, and the work of multiple initiatives including TCHAS,
HBI, and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation Healthy Out of School Program.
 Access it at - http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/post/state-state-expandedlearning-california-2014
Quality Standards
 The Quality Standards that were submitted to CDE, and the Standards in Action
included members of the Nutrition and PA Committee and outlines Healthy
Behaviors as a standard of quality in CA expanded Learning Programs.
 More information - http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/post/quality-standardswork-group-phase-ii
Review of Committee Member Survey Responses
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20 Committee members representing 8 of CA’s 11 regions took the survey. Most
respondents were TA providers and Program Managers supporting multiple sites.
Respondents indicated they value about learning current events in terms of state
and national context / policy, and learning promising practices, including promising
practices for serving healthy and tasty food, creating gardens and implementing
garden programming.
Respondents also indicated they want to hear more about potential funding
opportunities, leveraging the affordable care act, learning more about available
curricular resources for supporting Nutrition and PA.
Respondents expressed that they enjoy the webinar format, but would enjoy more
interactivity – how can we increase open discussion on the meetings?
Committee members outlined they would like to hear more voices from the field,
and learning about local programs practices and partnerships.
Respondents were in favor of keeping the existing structure of meetings every
other month, on Tuesdays, from 10am – 11:30am.
Discussion: informing next year’s work plan
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Funding:
o Investigate additional sources of funding (public – i.e. medical, affordable
care act, etc.; and philanthropic), we have many pilots, etc. but not the system
that will be necessary to serve all the youth in need.
o Increasing corporate support for what we are doing.
o Funding for staff development is a huge concern for practitioners. Increasing
the capacity of those delivering programs on the ground.
Meal Program:
o Continue to work on the meal program expansion and quality. We have the
funding, and we need to help programs leverage that funding to serve the
existing youth in the programs. Increase the push for the expansion, but also
the quality of meals.
o Helping smaller OST programs to connect to sponsors, meal program, as well
as Summer Food sponsors.
CAN is a resource to make sense of many of the efforts, initiatives, networks, etc.
so that folks can understand what is out there and clarify what all of the efforts are,
and how folks can tap into them.
o Expanding Network Options for After School Programs. Have an outreach
been made to neighborhood churches that are often located across the street
from the After School Site?
o Including the perspective of the website. How do we organize the content so
that it is really understandable, accessible, helps others understand larger
context. Including adding the policy updates, etc. UCD Students can be
leveraged move forward with organizing some of the web resources.
Promote the CDE – ASD quality standards, especially the healthy behaviors
standards.
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Support, resources, and information on connecting to district wellness
policies and ensuring that expanded learning programs are included in the process
of implementation.
Expanding partnerships with local health depts.
Build the Committee representation and voice from the field
o Have we identified the target audience, or even individuals at each of the
providers that has a person that may focus on health within the organization
to ensure that they are engaged? Do we have a targeted approach for
outreach?
Next Steps:
 Committee co-chairs will be bringing these ideas forward as part of a work plan.
This will be reviewed as part of the next committee meeting, updated, and shared
with all Committee Co-Chairs of CAN at the Fall Co-Chairs Retreat.
Youth Engagement Strategies Presentation
 Access the audio and visual presentation, as well as the presentation PowerPoint.
 Access the After School Primer on SNAP-ED, and connecting to NEOP
http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/announcement/after-school-guide-snap-edprogram
Policy Updates
Traveling Apple Policy
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The current policy under the Meal Program does not permit the traveling apple
policy so that youth could hold on to particular non-perishable items to consume
later in the program. The traveling apple policy is currently permissible in the
Summer Food Service Program, as well as the National School Lunch and School
Breakfast Programs.
The Co-Chairs of this committee had a discussion with Laurie Pennings of the CDE
Nutrition Services Division. Laurie is following up with her Western Region
Colleagues to see if this has been an issue in other places, and to write a memo to the
western region USDA to perhaps implement a policy change.
In the mean-time, the Committee will complete the food safety webinar that outlines
the policy as it exists, and is preparing for a future policy change so that the webinar
can be update
Federal Policy Updates
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ESEA reauthorization is currently on hold likely until next Congress after election
cycle.
Appropriations - Senate
o June 10th the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and
Related Agencies sub-committee of the Senate Appropriations Committee
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approved their fiscal year 2015 (beginning federal Fiscal Year October 1)
spending bill in the sub committee. A vote on this spending bill scheduled for
the full appropriations committee on June 12th was called off indefinitely due
to partisan tension around the spending bill.
o The spending bill that did pass the sub committee proposed a 100 million
dollar increase to the Child Development Block Grant (CDBG), bringing CDBG
up to $2.5 billion (nationally about 1/3 of these funds go to school age child
care). The spending bill included a $50 million dollar increase for Title I, and
proposed level funding of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st
CCLC) program at $1.149 billion.
Child Nutrition Reauthorization
o National School Lunch Program has been in the dialogue lately as part of the
agriculture appropriations.
o Legislation introduced on June 25th by Gillibrand (NY) and Murkwoski (AK)
entitled the Summer Meals Act (access the press release regarding the
introduction of this bill) which proposes to change the eligibility for the
Summer Meals Program from 50% to 40%, making it consistent with the 21st
CCLC, and better integrates summer learning and after school meals by
making it easier for after school meals to transition to summer meals. In
addition, it addresses a rural issue by creating options to bring food to youth,
or youth to food, as well as increases options to offer two meals and a snack
in summer meal programs.
California State Legislative and Policy Update
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SB 1221 – Hancock
o This bill would give priority points to programs that support year-round
learning opportunities. This bill updates program-reporting requirements by
removing defunct standardized tests, focusing on program and school-day
attendance by student identifier number, and requiring evidence of program
quality improvement processes. This bill also requires CDE to develop a
biennial report to the legislature. This bill is sponsored by CDE and the
Partnership for Children and Youth.
o The bill has passed the Senate, has been sent to the Assembly, and was
passed by the Assembly Education Committee on June 25th and referred to
the Committee on Appropriations.
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SB 949 – Jackson
o This bill would make after-school programs that meet certain health
guidelines eligible to be designated as a “Distinguished Program.” This is an
updated version of SB 464 from last year. The program would be voluntary
and those eligible would receive a certificate from the Department of Public
Health.
o This bill has passed the Senate, has been sent to the Assembly and was
passed by the Assembly Committee on Health on June 25th and was referred
to the Committee on Appropriations.
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AB 1944 - Garcia
o This bill would repeal the language in the law relative to placement of 11and 12-year-olds in publicly funded child care that requires a parent to
certify that a before- or after-school program is not available. This bill is
sponsored by the CA Alternative Payment Programs Association, which
suggests that the certification is burdensome and unnecessary and is not
even being used.
o This bill has passed the Assembly, was sent to the Senate, and was passed by
the Senate Committee on Education on June 25th and referred to the Senate
Appropriations Committee.
Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and Local Control Accountability Plans
(LCAPs)
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Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) has brought increased funds to individual
school districts to create plans (LCAPs) on how to best utilize the funds locally to
achieve specific goals.
o Jerry Brown sought to address the teacher pension shortfalls and required
that they use increased funds from LCFF to address the teacher pension issue.
Therefore, the onus lands primarily on school districts, with some funds
coming from the state, and some from teachers.
o This will likely result in Districts having fewer funds to support the
expansion of after school programs, or utilizing funds for summer programs.
July 1 was the deadline for Districts to submit their LCAP and final budget for the
next year. Some have already been approved throughout the state. CDE is tasked
with making all LCAPs available online for transparency. It is unclear the timeline by
which LCAPs will be accessible and available.
o The state board currently has emergency regulations in place for how LCAPs
are utilized are expended to serve high need youth. In the fall the state board
will finalize their fiscal regulations and will be seeking public comment.
o By October 8th, Districts must approve or disapprove of the LCAP. However
the template for evaluating LCAPs has not been developed yet. Therefore,
most assume that this is a test year and most LCAPs will be approved.
Administrative Updates
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Final 21st Century Community Learning Centers and ASES awards are posted on the
CDE website.
The Strategic Implementation Plan website is now open and available, anyone
interested in tracking the progress of the Strategic Implementation process or
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becoming involved in the field. Opportunities for the field to get involved will be
available soon. Individuals can sign up to receive updates.
There have been changes in Regional Lead Personnel. There will be, or are
currently new Regional Leads in Region 1, Region 7, and Region 9.
Quality Standards Work Group – Phase II will be sending their recommendations to
the CDE After School Division on the Standards in Action related to the already
approved 12 Quality Standards. The Standards in Action provide a further
description of the Quality Standards in implementation. In addition, the work group
will submit a Crosswalk of Assessment Tools as they relate to the Quality Standards.
During the May Regional Lead meeting it was announced that the Regional Lead
contracting process will change in fiscal year 15-16. In the past RLs have been given
grants, not contracts. Based on recommendations from the SIT teams, particularly
the System of Support team, the RL work will go to a contracting process, which
makes it easier to hold RLs accountable to particular deliverables. The RFA for that
contract will go to County Offices of Education. Existing questions include whether
multiple county offices can receive funding within a region, and whether County
Offices of Education that are currently not receiving Technical Assistance funds will
be able to apply for TA funds.
Attendees:
Donald Clark
Steve Fowler- Fowler Hoffman
Jessica Hay- Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Sarah Heidel- Sacramento Chinese Community Service Centers
Ian Kieler- A World Fit for Kids
Kathy Lewis- Center for Collaborative Solutions
Theresa Milavich- City of Fresno
Normandie Nigh- A World Fit for Kids
Maya Oubre- Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Aleah Rosario- CalSAC
Deborah Tamannaie- CDE Nutrition Services Division
Susan Vittuli – Public Health Institute
Alyson Wylie- California State University, Chico
Co-Chair: Arnell Hinkle- CANFIT
Co-Chair: Bruno Marchesi- Healthy Behaviors Initiative
CAN Staff: Jeff Davis- California AfterSchool Network