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The Indiana Department of Education, Division of School and Community Nutrition Program is the administering agency for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Child Nutrition Programs. The Division is actively involved in improving the health and well being of Indiana’s citizens, especially children.

The Division works closely with food service professionals in a variety of settings, including public and private schools, day care organizations, and other nonprofit organizations that serve nutritious meals to eligible recipients.

Division employees distribute a variety of USDA developed educational and training resources. The Division also provides a variety of technical assistance and training opportunities for food service, education, and health care professionals with the aim of helping the state’s children choose healthy life styles for successful living. Collaborative relationships are maintained with many governmental agencies and other organizations with similar goals.


Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program

School Nutrition Training for Frontline Staff - Hakha Chin (8 Hour Course)

This 8-hour course was created with funding from the United States Department of Agriculture's Fiscal Year 2022 Team Nutrition Grant. This course includes 8 hours of training translated to Hakha Chin for frontline staff on meal service operations for the School Nutrition Programs. 

School Nutrition Training for Frontline Staff - Spanish (8 Hour Course)

Este curso de 8 horas se creó con fondos de la Beca de Nutrición para Equipos del Año Fiscal 2022 del Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos. Este curso incluye 8 horas de capacitación traducidas al español para el personal de primera línea en las operaciones de servicio de comidas para los Programas de Nutrición Escolar.

School Nutrition Training for Frontline Staff (8 Hour Course)

This 8-hour course was created with funding from the United States Department of Agriculture's Fiscal Year 2022 Team Nutrition Grant. This course includes 8 hours of training for frontline staff on meal service operations for the School Nutrition Programs. 

School Nutrition Training for Directors and Managers (40 Hour Course)

This 40 hour course was created with funding from the United States Department of Agriculture's Fiscal Year 2022 Team Nutrition Grant. This course includes training for Food Service Directors and School Nutrition Managers on meal patterns and meal service operations for the School Nutrition Programs. 

After School Snack Program

The NSLP After School Snack Program offers cash reimbursement to help SFAs provide a nutritional boost to children enrolled in afterschool activities. This course gives a basic overview of the program.

Breakfast Program

This course will go over School Breakfast Program basics including federal and state requirements and a quick refresher of the meal pattern, discuss different breakfast methods, and share breakfast resources that will help you operate your program.

Civil Rights

Sponsors are responsible for training any staff person who works with Child Nutrition Programs on all aspects of civil rights compliance. Train staff on civil rights requirements before staff assume their duties in the Child Nutrition Programs and annually thereafter. Keep an attendance sheet of those staff who completed the training, and keep on file for three years plus the current year.

Detailed Information About the USDA DoD Fresh Program

Direct Certification

We are currently updating these courses. Please reach out to Gretchen Huntzer, ghuntzer@doe.in.gov, with questions. 

Ethics

Farm to School

In order to ensure that the items served to students meet the meal pattern requirements, sponsors must figure out how these items count and contribute, or "credit", toward the different meal components. Crediting is the only way to ensure that students are consuming the most nutritious food in the correct quantities in order to obtain necessary nutrients for their health and development. Because of this, only creditable items count toward the meal pattern components to make up a reimbursable meal. If crediting is not correctly applied, then meals may be missing necessary nutrients, components could be considered incomplete, and meals would not be reimbursable.

Food Distribution Program

Food Safety

Free and Reduced

Meal Counting and Claiming

Meal Pattern

Offer versus Serve

Procurement

Production Records

Production records are required by USDA because they help document meal pattern compliance including meeting all of the required components in the correct serving sizes. Additionally, production records confirm that enough food was planned, prepared, and served to participants.

Production records are requested and looked over by your reviewer during the Administrative Review process.

This course will discuss the benefits of maintaining records correctly, the anatomy of what production record should include, tips for completion, and how to use records to forecast program participation.