State Budget Update: Some Progress, But Not Enough

6.17.2014 On Sunday, June 15, the California Legislature passed its 2014-15 budget package, including the budget bill and companion trailer bills. The budget package is a result of negotiations between the Governor and the Legislature

ECE Nutrition Investments: Eliminated from Budget

6.17.2014 On June 11, 2014 California’s Legislative Conference Committee met to vote on unresolved budget items, including the Early Childhood Education (ECE) budget package.

USDA Fact Sheet

Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act School Meals Implementation. PDF

CDE Letter to Congress

May 2014, Position on School Nutrition Standards. PDF

Advocacy Materials from CNR 2009-10

The following are links to resources and materials CFPA developed during Child Nutrition Reauthorization 2009/10:

Just Released: School's Out…Who Ate? 2014

6.12.2014 California’s summer nutrition gap affected nearly two million of our state’s most vulnerable children and youth last summer. CFPA’s latest School’s Out…Who Ate? report

SB 1002 Passes Assembly Health Committee

6.11.2014 Yesterday, SB 1002 (De Leon) Aligning Opportunities for Health passed the Assembly Health Committee with bipartisan support. Next, SB 1002 will be heard in the Assembly

CalFresh Convening Resources Now Posted

06.09.2014 Materials and Resources from June’s CalFresh Convening: Increase Access to Nutritious Food are  now available. 

ECE Nutrition Investments: Conference Committee Update

6.6.2014 On Wednesday, June 4, the Legislative Conference Committee held a hearing on K-12 (including child care) budget items. The child care items were held open, but Assembly Member Nancy Skinner

Superintendent Torlakson Supports CEP

6.5.2014 In a memo released last month, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson, praised education leaders for “ensuring that schools offer more nutritious meals and snacks” and urged leaders to

SB 1002 Heads to the Senate Health Committee

6.3.2014 SB 1002 (De León), Aligning Opportunities for Health, passed the Senate Floor on Tuesday, May 27 with unanimous support. We would like to thank Senator De León, our co-sponsor,

Updated Agenda and Workshop Descriptions Posted

6.2.2014 CalFresh In-Reach Convening to Increase Access to Nutritious Food is coming to  LA County. 

Aligning LCFF with School Meal Provisions: Hopeful Signs

6.2.2014 In recent weeks, the Assembly and Senate Budget Committees took action to include proposals in their respective 2014-15 budgets that would better align the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) with school meal provisions such as Provision 2 (P2) and the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).

AB 2449 Passes the Assembly Floor!

6.2.2014 AB 2449 (Bocanegra), Adequate Time to Eat: Lunchtime Supports Learning, passed the Assembly on Wednesday,  May 28 with a bipartisan vote of 51-21! 

AB 2449 Sample Support Letter

A CFPA-prepared sample support letter. DOC

Take Action Today! Congress: Protect School Meals

05.28.2014 As you may know, the House Appropriations Committee is voting tomorrow morning, May 29th, on the agriculture spending bill for FY 2015. This bill includes a waiver that would allow schools to opt out of complying with all school meal standards

Join Us for Virtual ENACT Day on May 29!

5.28.2014 Tomorrow’s the big day for community health advocates in California! Whether you’re joining us at the Capitol or logging on from your desk, happy ENACT Day 2014!

Assembly & Senate Release Proposed ECE Budgets

5.27.2014 Last week California’s Assembly and Senate budget subcommittees held hearings to discuss and vote on items in their proposed budgets for early childhood education (ECE). We applaud the Assembly for including a $10 million investment in nutrition in their proposed budget.

SB 1002: Senate Floor Alert

CFPA and WCLP prepared a Floor Alert to members of the Senate. PDF

AB 2449 Sample Assembly Floor Alert

A CFPA-prepared Assembly Floor Alert DOC

AB 2449 Passes Assembly Appropriations!

5.23.2014 An amended AB 2449 (Bocanegra) Adequate Time to Eat was taken off suspense and passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee today! 

City of LA Proclaims CalFresh Awareness Month

5.23.2014 CalFresh Champion, LA Councilman Fuentes, said we must close the CalFresh utilization gap.

SB 1147 Held in Senate Appropriations Committee

5.23.2014 SB 1147 (DeSaulnier) CalFresh Performance Goals and Customer Service Standards was held in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday, May 23. SB 1147 will not be moving to the Senate Floor. In partnership with

SB 1002 Passes Senate Appropriations!

5.23.2014 SB 1002 (De León) Aligning Opportunities for Health passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday, May 23. SB 1002 will next be moving to the Senate Floor

Upcoming Webinars: Community Eligibility and LCFF

5.20.2014 Find out how your students and schools can benefit from the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) while also collecting the data necessary to implement LCFF.
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