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USDA Listening Sessions and Written Comments
June 4th, 2008
From the Food Research and Action Center website
Upcoming Opportunities to Offer Recommendations for Improving the Child Nutrition and WIC Programs
USDA has begun to take two steps to obtain public recommendations for the 2009 Child Nutrition Reauthorization. (1) It is going to be holding regional listening sessions. (2) It will be requesting written public comments.
These will be important opportunities for anti-hunger, healthy eating, children's health and education advocates, service providers, program administrators and others to provide recommendations on improving access, meal quality and nutrition in the programs that are due for reauthorization: school breakfast and lunch, summer feeding, afterschool and child and adult care food programs, and WIC.
USDA will compile the results of the sessions and comments into a report for the coming Presidential Administration to use in the 2009 reauthorization of the Child Nutrition and WIC Programs.
FRAC will keep you updated with reauthorization materials, themes, talking points, model recommendations and additional information as these USDA plans proceed.