No Kid Hungry is committed to ensuring that program sponsors, community organizations, and advocates have the resources and tools they need to ensure all kids have the food they need to thrive. We’ve highlighted several current resources below, including resources specifically for Illinois schools and families.
To access our full national resource library, visit our Center for Best Practices website.
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- School Meals Application Outreach Toolkit
This toolkit includes guidance on connecting with families about meal applications, outreach examples from other school districts, and ready-to-use No Kid Hungry resources in both English and Spanish. - 2022-2023 School Meals Marketing Toolkit
Marketing is one of the most effective tools for increasing participation in school meals. This toolkit was created to help you get the word out to students and families about school meals and includes both ready to use and customizable assets to help you quickly and easily communicate with students and families through social media, newsletters, flyers and more. - Breakfast After the Bell
- Breakfast After the Bell One-Pager in English and Spanish
- Breakfast After the Bell Delivery Models
- Implementation Resources:
- See Breakfast After the Bell in Action:
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Community Eligibility Provision Fact Sheet
Learn about and apply for the Community Eligibility Provision
- Community Eligibility Provision Fact Sheet
- Umbrella Model Handout
Learn how to increase participation in afterschool meals. - Afterschool Meals Marketing Flyers
- ISBE CACFP Forms and Documents
- Summer Meals Marketing Flyer
- Summer Meals Outreach Toolkit
This toolkit features a range of ready-made promotional materials to help publicize summer meals in your communities - Averaged Area Eligibility Map
This map can show you whether your summer meal site or day care home is in an area eligible location based on the USDA Food and Nutrition Service’s averaging policy.
- SNAP Outreach Toolkit for Schools
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits qualifying households to purchase nutritious food using an electronic card that functions like an ATM card accepted at most grocery stores and farmers’ markets. SNAP can help families weather financial hardship and ensure access to healthy food.
As trusted messengers, schools and community organizations are an important source of information for families. This toolkit includes sample SNAP outreach materials in English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Tagalog, and Vietnamese that can be customized with the local details and specifics that best serve your community.
- 2023 P-EBT Outreach Toolkit
This toolkit was created to help you get the word out to families about Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) benefits available to help families with groceries when kids miss school due to COVID-19 and during summer break.
