Champaign, Illinois Increasing Meal Participation

District Information O Enrollment – 9728 O Free and Reduced – 56% O 19 Schools O 1 Early Childhood Center O 8 After School Snack Sites O Open campus for grades 11 and 12 O Elementary Schools have 15 minutes for lunch

 Fruits and Vegetables become two 2 separate categories  ¾c Vegetable requirement for full serve at elementary schools  Whole Grains  $.06 Review  Water on the serving line  Fruit or Vegetable mandatory at lunch  Vegetable Subgroups  Paid Lunch Equity – PLE  Smart Snacks  Medicaid drop off from the Illinois Direct Certification list Huge Changes

How Was This Going to Work O Acceptability of fruit & vegetable rather than two different fruits O Tray compartment too small for the amount of vegetables O Students not used to brown bread O Water coolers slowing down the line

O Students unhappy that they have to take a fruit or vegetable O BEANS O To Waiver or Not to Waiver O Paid Lunch Equity – losing full priced meals each year due to the price increase O Medicaid off of the IIlinois DC list – hundreds of students not automatically free

ACTION O 11 elementary schools went to OVS O Improved menu choices through fresh eyes O Four elementary schools became cooking kitchens O Five elementary schools became Community Eligibility Provision schools O Standardized breakfast at all satellite elementary schools O Name Brand O Borrowed ideas O TV monitors at High Schools

Service Line Speed O Took water coolers off the serving line once this was approved by USDA O Required meal card or id number at POS O Bagged fruits and vegetables O Using both sides of the serving line and cashier O 0 Enter at Community Eligibility Provision schools O Stopped cash transactions at elementary schools

Plans O Two more elementary cooking schools O One more elementary school eligible for CEP O Two more elementary schools using both sides of the serving line O More pizza varieties on Friday O Adding a pizza-type entrée another day of the week O TV monitors at middle schools O Sending letters reminding parents at CEP schools that all children eat at no cost (how it benefits the district) O Getting ahead of the Illinois DC list Medicaid drop off by sending letters and applications to those families

Use Your Resources O Talk to others in K-12 O Read trade magazines O ISBE Seminars O ISBE Webinars O Join ILSNA O Institute of Child Nutrition O Illinois State Board of Education O Take interns