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Links to Other Fact Sheets
Afterschool Resource Center
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)http://www.frac.org/Out_Of_School_Time/Afterschool/back_schoolres.html
“We wanted to let everyone know about a new set of FRAC
materials that promote the child nutrition programs or
provide useful nutrition information for families. They
include:
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Start Serving Suppers at
Your Afterschool Program- It pays to serve nutritious
suppers!
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Nutrition Guidelines for
Afterschool & Summer Programs- An overview of MyPyramid for
Kids, USDA meal patterns for afterschool and summer
nutrition programs along with sample menus.
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Helping Our Children
Achieve: The Wellness Connection- Eating right and being
more active can help children do better in school and live
longer, healthier lives.
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Striving for Good
Nutrition on a Tight Budget- Lessons from savvy shoppers who
know that feeding a family on a budget is a challenge.
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Food and Nutrition
Programs: Getting Connected- Get more food for your family
through federal nutrition programs”
Child Trends Out-of-School Time Programs
“Child Trends launches a new resource for designing, expanding,
refining, improving, and evaluating out-of-school time programs
— a must-read for program providers, policy makers, funders, and
the media. Fact sheets, research briefs, and practitioner
insight reports provide critical information on new research,
promising evaluation and practice techniques, and basic
information to help service providers and others use research
and evaluation to improve programs for youth. The first
materials in the series released today include:
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