NYC Alliance for Child Nutrition Reauthorization

NYC Alliance for Child Nutrition Reauthorization FOR MORE INFORMATION, OR TO SIGN ON, PLEASE VISIT www.NYCforCNR.org The Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) is important to New York City What is this Bill? In the next few months the federal government will reauthorize the Child Nutrition Act (CNA). This legislation sets rules and funding levels for the major school-based nutrition programs, including the School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, and Summer Food Service Program, and other important federal food programs such as the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for women, infants and children (WIC). Why is this bill important? This is a once in five year opportunity. The 2009 Reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act can help us accomplish the following goals: achieve the Obama Administration’s goal of ending child hunger and food insecurity; ensure a generation of healthy, productive, nutritionally-aware children; reduce energy use and pollution; create jobs; and stimulate economic activity. What are we doing to influence this bill? Groups in New York City representing varying interests have formed an alliance to advocate for changes to the 2009 Child Nutrition Reauthorization. We’ve established a consensus statement of priorities for NYC in CNR, and a cohesive strategy to deliver our shared message reflected in this statement to policy makers, the public, and other relevant parties identified. This alliance brings together various groups that haven’t historically come together to advocate for changes and improvements to CNR. Rationale Nationwide, groups such as anti-hunger, nutrition and public health, food service and industry, community food security groups and others are advocating for specific priorities in the 2009 Child Nutrition Reauthorization. These groups have long recognized the importance of this legislation to their constituencies and have a history of advocacy in this arena. Today, as we recognize the systemic nature of our social problems and realize that they can better be addressed working together, groups are coalescing across boundaries of interest to shape how this legislation will affect us all. Diverse groups in other cities – including Seattle, Boston, Chicago, and LA – are organizing now to develop their collective priorities for CNR. With the largest school district in the nation and large number WIC and CACFP participants, NYC can be a very strong and influential voice for positive change within the Child Nutrition Reauthorization. Especially in this time of fiscal crisis, increased hunger, and concern for children’s health, we must take this opportunity to ask for increased federal funding and improvements to programs that benefit New Yorkers. NYC Alliance for CNR: Priorities for the 2009 Child Nutrition Reauthorization Specific goals Overall, the Reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act must: 1) Make significant progress towards the goal of ending child hunger and food insecurity in America by 2015; 2) Ensure that all children have access to high quality, nutritious foods, local whenever possible, in their schools and through other child nutrition programs; 3) Reduce obesity and diet-related diseases and ensure productive, healthy generations; and

NYC Alliance for Child Nutrition Reauthorization 4) Support and expand regional farm and food economies, increasing jobs, enhancing infrastructure, and reducing unsustainable environmental impact. Summary of the Three Key Strategies to Achieve Those Goals 1. Make federal child nutrition programs universal and more nutritious while reducing their administrative paperwork and bureaucracy. 2. Give programs more resources and technical assistance to serve all children with nutritious food, local whenever possible, produced in an environmentally and economically sustainable manner. 3. Make nutrition education available to all children and caregivers through child nutrition programs. Signed by the members of the NYC Alliance for CNR Organizations American Farmland Trust - NYS Office New York City Nutrition Education Network Baum Forum / Public Market Partners (NYCNEN) BedStuy Campaign Against Hunger New York State Dental Association Brooklyn Rescue Mission No Doubt, Inc Bronx Health REACH / NY CEED Nutrition Program, Teachers College Columbia Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens University Child Center of NY Public Health Solutions City Harvest Queens County Farm Museum Connecting to Advantages Red Hook Initiative D'Artagnan Slow Food NYC East Williamsburg CSA Small Ville Youth Club FGE Food and Nutrition Team Society of Jesus, NY Province Food Bank for NYC Staten Island Interfaith Coalition of Feeding Harvest Home Farmer's Market, Inc. Ministries Healthcorps Strategic Alliance for Health Healthy Moon Telepan (restaurant) Hour Children, Inc The Children's Aid Society Hunter College, Program in Nutrition The Cleaver Company Hunger Action Network of NYS (HANNYS) The Code Foundation Hungry in America, LLC The Spotted Pig (restaurant) Jean Georges Management, LLC The Sylvia Center Just Food The What’s On Your Plate? Film Project Lenox Hill Neighborhood House United Community Centers and East New York LightBox Farms! Livesip United Food and Commercial Workers Local Montefiore School Health Program 1500 move on.org Urban Health Plan National Economic and Social Rights Initiative Welfare Rights Initiative (NESRI) Wellness in the Schools New York Academy of Medicine West Side Campaign Against Hunger New York City Coalition Against Hunger WHY Hunger (NYCCAH) Xavier Mission

NYC Alliance for Child Nutrition Reauthorization

by Community Food Security Coalition on Oct 26, 2009

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