Resources

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 Kentucky schools and families. 

To access our full national resource library, visit our Center for Best Practices website. 

Center for Best Practices

Did you know that No Kid Hungry also hosts webinars on various topics around child nutrition? Click here to access webinars (both upcoming and recordings)!

  • 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.
  • School Breakfast Toolkit
    This toolkit was created to help with the launch and implementation of alternative breakfast models within schools in Kentucky.
  • Farm to School Network
    • The Kentucky Horticulture Council hosted a series of webinar on topics regarding how to start buying produce directly through Kentucky farmers. Click here to access the webinar recordings. 
    • Guide to KY Farm Foods from Distributors: Did you know that distributors have Kentucky-grown products available?  These Kentucky farm impact products are available either shipped or delivered to schools across Kentucky. Farm impact products are sourced, wholly or in part, from farms in Kentucky.
  • 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.
  • No Kid Hungry Summer Meals Calculator

    This budgeting tool can help you plan for your summer meals program, including specific guidance on budgeting for mobile meals.

  • Tips for Staffing Summer Meals Programs
    No Kid Hungry gathered advice from summer nutrition heroes who have found innovative ways to ensure that their programs stay afloat in the summertime with passionate and dedicated staff. 
  • 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.