Lecture 4 - Governmental Programs

The NSLP is required to provide _____ of the daily calorie, protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, and Vitamin E needs for the participants through foods provided at lunch

1/3

NSLP qualified households have to have incomes below the ________ of the poverty level.

130 percent

HHS Strategic Goal ___: Protect the Health of Americans Where They Live, Learn, Work, and Play

2

HHS Strategic Goal ___: Strengthen the Economic and Social Well-Being of Americans Across the Lifespan

3

_______ partners with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to: •Ensure that dietary guidelines are consistent with federal departments and meeting federal mandate. •Collaborate with federal partners so they can promote national nutrition guidance. •Use communication and marketing to get this information to the public, practitioners, fellow partners, media platforms, consumers and professionals.

CNPP

Reimbursement through Medicare Part B guarantees coverage of _____ for DM and non- ESRD

MNT

•This program used to be known as the Food Stamp Program because paper coupons were used in the past. •Currently, the benefits are deposited monthly into a special debit card system called Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT). -EBT can be used at supermarkets, co-op food programs, certain farmers' markets, and convenience stores- previously known as the Food Stamps program •Provides low-income and no-income families and individuals with benefits that they can use to purchase eligible foods at certain retailers. •This program is designed to help people and households buy nutritious affordable foods

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

_________ of Healthy People include reducing major causes of death such as heart disease and cancer; reducing infant and maternal mortality; reducing risk factors like tobacco smoking, hypertension, and elevated cholesterol; and increasing childhood vaccinations.

achievements

Eligibility for Medicare is not based on the person's income or assets, it is based on ______

age

NSLP and SBP Meal Requirements: offers meals that meet specific ___________ for each age/grade group

calorie ranges

SBP: In exchange, participating institutions receive __________ from the USDA for each reimbursable meal served.

cash subsidies

Children may be determined "______________" for free meals through: • participation in certain Federal Assistance Programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, •based on their status as a homeless, migrant, runaway, or foster child. •children can also qualify for free or reduced price school meals based on household income and family size. Children from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the Federal poverty level are eligible for free meals.

categorically eligible

•Provides reimbursements for healthful snacks and meals to eligible children and adults who are receiving care at participating day care homes, child-care centers and adult day care centers •also provides reimbursement for meals served to youth and children in afterschool care programs, adults over the age of 60 or living with a disability and enrolled in day care facilities and, children residing in emergency shelters. •Administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the USDA

child and adult care food program (CACFP)

_________ of CNPP: •Dietary Guidelines •MyPlate •USDA Food Plans •Nutrient Content of the US food Supply •Healthy eating index

core projects

Headstart services: ___________ - Children's readiness for school and beyond is fostered through individualized learning experiences. Through relationships with adults, play, and planned and spontaneous instruction, children grow in many aspects of development. Children progress in social skills and emotional well-being, along with language and literacy learning, and concept development

early learning

SBP: School districts and independent schools that choose to participate in the Program must: • serve breakfast meals meeting Federal nutrition requirements, •offer free or reduced price breakfasts to all ___________

eligible children

NSLP and SBP Meal Requirements: offer a daily _________ at breakfast

meat/meat alternative

In Florida the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is responsible for __________

medicaid

SBP: School districts and independent schools that choose to participate in the Program must: • serve breakfast meals meeting Federal ___________, •offer free or reduced price breakfasts to all eligible children.

nutrition requirements

Headstart nutrition: The goals of __________ are to provide nutrition assessment and counseling, nutritious meals, and to empower and educate parents to make healthy choices for themselves and their children.

nutrition services

HHS Strategic Goal ___: Reform, Strengthen, and Modernize the Nation's Healthcare System

1

HHS Strategic Goal ___: Foster Sound, Sustained Advances in the Sciences

4

HHS Strategic Goal ___: Promote Effective and Efficient Management and Stewardship

5

_________ is a federal organization, operating under the Food and Nutrition Service, a department of the USDA •These individuals are supplemented with healthy United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) foods. •Designed to help decrease nutrient deficiencies for low income individuals over 60 years of age

Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)

__________ was the nation's first education program for low-income populations and remains at the forefront of nutrition education efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youth today.

EFNEP

expanded food & nutrition education program

EFNEP

•Provides fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs through farmers' markets and roadside stands to WIC participants •Eligible WIC participants are issued FMNP coupons in addition to their regular WIC benefits. -These coupons can be used to buy eligible foods from farmers, farmers' markets or roadside stands that have been approved by the state agency to accept FMNP coupons

Farmer's Market Nutrition Program

Provides free fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the school day in elementary schools

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable program (FFVP)

A vision to provide economic opportunity through: • innovation, helping rural America to thrive;. • to promote agriculture production that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; •to preserve our Nation's natural resources through conservation, restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands.

HHS (Department of Health and Human Services)

•promote school readiness of children ages birth to five from low-income families by supporting the development of the whole child. •This program improves the lives of low-income children by providing family focused child development and school readiness services including education, health, nutrition, and mental health.

Headstart

__________ is the medical assistance program that provides access to health care for low-income families and individuals.

Medicaid

__________ is administered by the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Medicare

_________ is a reminder to find your healthy eating style and build it throughout your lifetime. Everything you eat and drink matters. The right mix can help you be healthier now and in the future

MyPlate

At the state-level the ______ is administered through each state's individual agencies that operate the program through agreements with those in charge of the schools

NSLP

•Provides low-cost or free nutritious breakfast to children in school •provides reimbursement to states to operate nonprofit breakfast programs in schools and residential childcare institutions.

National School Breakfast Program (SBP)

A federally assisted meal program that provides a low-cost or free nutritious lunch to children in public and nonprofit private schools and residential childcare institutions

National School Lunch Program (NSLP)

State education agencies administer the _____ at the state level, and local school food authorities operate the program in schools.

SBP

UNICEF is a key partner in the major global initiative called the ______________ movement, brings much needed focus and investment for nutrition in a number of countries

Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)

•Provides low-income seniors with coupons that can be exchanged for eligible foods at farmers' markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture programs •Provides fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables, herbs, and honey through farmers' markets, roadside stands and community supported agriculture programs to low-income seniors; and increase the consumption of agricultural commodities by expanding, developing, or aiding in the development and expansion of domestic farmers' markets, roadside stands, and CSA programs. •Administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the USDA

Senior Farmers' Markets Nutrition Program (SFMNP)

The _______ is a federally-funded, state-administered program designed to provide children and teens (age 18 and younger) in low-income areas with nutritious meals during long vacation periods when school is not in session.

Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)

•Under Dept HHS •Federal government provides grant funds to states and territories to provide families with financial assistance and related support services •State programs provide these related services that may include income assistance, childcare assistant, education and job training, and transportation

Temporary assistance for needy families (TANF)

•Provides supplemental foods to low income individuals at no cost. The USDA purchases the foods and distributes it at State Distributing Agencies such as Second Harvest which assist low-income persons •A federal program under the Food and Nutrition Service, an agency of the USDA

The emergency food assistance program (TEFAP)

_________ is committed to scaling up and sustaining coverage of its current high-impact nutrition interventions in the program areas of: •Infant and Young Child Feeding; •Micronutrients; •Nutrition Security in Emergencies; and •Nutrition and HIV/AIDS.

UNICEF

_________ works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

UNICEF

•a vision to provide economic opportunity through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; to promote agriculture production that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; and to preserve our Nation's natural resources through conservation, restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands.

USDA

•provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management

USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)

NSLP is governed by the _______ Food and Nutrition Service

USDA's

•Provides nutritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals to health and other social services to low income women, and infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk •The program is under the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Food and Nutrition Service agency

WIC

Headstart services: __________ - Parents and families are supported in achieving their own goals, such as housing stability, continued education, and financial security. Programs support and strengthen parent-child relationships and engage families around children's learning and development.

family well-being

NSLP and SBP Meal Requirements: offer fluid milk that is ________ (unflavored and flavored and ________ (unflavored only)

fat free; low fat

WIC provides __________ to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, nutrition education/counseling, breastfeeding promotion and support

federal grants

The Food and Nutrition Service administers the SBP at the ___________

federeal level

NSLP: In addition to reimbursement, Schools are given commodity __________ for lunches, which helps to save money for both the schools and children's families

food donations

NSLP and SBP Meal Requirements: offer _____ daily at breakfast and lunch

fruit

NSLP and SBP Meal Requirements: Require students to select a ____________ as part of the reimbursable meal

fruit or vegetable

NSLP and SBP Meal Requirements: offer whole _____

grains

Medicaid is a partnership between the states and the federal government, with each paying about ________

half the cost

___________ helps with: •MENU DEVELOPMENT •NUTRITION ASSESSMENTS & COUNSELING •FAMILY EDUCATION •COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS

headstart nutrition

Headstart services: ___________ - Each child's perceptual, motor, and physical development is supported to permit them to fully explore and function in their environment. All children receive health and development screenings, nutritious meals, oral health and mental health support. Programs connect families with medical, dental, and mental health services to ensure that children are receiving the services they need.

health

__________ helps users to access data on changes in the health status of the U.S. population; these data also inform each new decade's goals and objectives.

healthy people

__________ is a national effort that sets goals and objectives to improve the health and well-being of people in the United States.

healthy people

•Medicaid also assists aged and disabled people with the costs of nursing facility care and other medical expenses. Eligibility for Medicaid is usually based on the family's or individual's ______________

income and assets

NSLP: In order to qualify for the reduced or free meals through the school lunch program the students have to be from _________ families and households.

low income

The federal government does not require states to provide _______________ through Medicaid but select states (about half) have elected to add nutrition benefits

medical nutrition therapy

_________ is a federal health insurance program for people who are age 65 or older or disabled.

medicare

NSLP and SBP Meal Requirements: reduce the _________ of meals gradually over a 10-year period

sodium content

Provides milk to children in schools and childcare institutions not participating in other child nutrition programs except the NSLP and SBP.

special milk program (SMP)

Each state operates its own Medicaid program under a ________ that must be approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or CMS.

state plan

WIC: The __________ are low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk

target populations

NSLP and SBP Meal Requirements: Prepare meals using food products or ingredients that contain zero grams of _______ per serving

trans fat