Summer Food Service Program

sfsplogo

Summer is an exciting time for children to enjoy time with friends, a week at camp, a family vacation, or time at the pool. But for many children who receive free and reduced-price meals at school, summer can mean hunger. Just as learning does not end when school lets out, neither does a child’s need for good nutrition.

The Summer Food Service Program, administered by the Iowa Department of Education, provides nutritious meals and snacks to children in low-income areas during the summer months. There are many summer food service program feedings sites across the state of Iowa, however the program is still vastly under-utilized. The biggest barrier to children participating in the Summer Food Service Program is knowledge that feedings sites exist.

2012 SFSP Open Sites

Please click on the map below to go to an interactive map highlighting all 2012 SFSP Sponsors across the state of Iowa and their contact information.

Summer Food Service Program feeding sites operate either as "open" or "enrolled" sites.

Open sites operate in low-income areas where half or more of the children are from households with income at or below 185% of the Federal poverty guidelines. Meals are provided at no charge to any child at the open site.
Enrolled sites provide meals only to children who are enrolled in an activity program, such as a day camp at the site. In order for an enrolled site to participate in the program, at least 50% of the children must be from households with incomes at or below 185% of the poverty level.

Residential camps and nonresidential camps may participate regardless of the location and are reimbursed only for eligible participants.

SFSP Programs in Iowa

If interested in obtaining information on Summer Food Service site locations, dates of operation, meals served and times of meal service, please contact the appropriate sponsor from the file below. Note not all counties have SFSP sponsors.

icon Summer 2012 Program Sponsors
icon Summer Food Programs in Iowa Fact Sheet

2013 SFSP Guides

Please refer to the following guides while planning and implementing your summer food service program.

icon Administrative Guide for Sponsors
icon Monitors Guide
icon Nutrition Guide
icon Site Supervisors Guide
icon Site Supervisors Guide - Spanish Translation
icon Food Safety in SFSP Resource

Fuel Up for Summer Food Promotional Tool-kit

Use this promotional tool-kit developed in partnership with the Midwest Dairy Council to spread the word about your Summer Food Service Program!

This tool-kit was developed in partnership with the Midwest Dairy council. The contents of the tool-kit were to designed to help Summer Food Service Program sponsors to spread the word about their feeding sites and to increase participation.

icon Advertising Flyer - Lunch Only