Webinars/Workshops

• Training Certificate
• Training CEUs Credit Hours and Key Areas
• Training CEUs – 2024 Summer Workshops 

Let's Talk Tuesday

Certificate of Completion Let's Talk Tuesday.

School Year 2024-2025 

• September 24 - USDA Foods: New School Year, New Faces, New Products, New Procedures - What you need to know (recording) 

School Year 2023-2024

• June 12 – Paid Lunch Equity (PLE) Tool, Adult Meal Pricing, and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable (FFVP) Packet (recording)
  • Presentation Slides   
• April 30 - Seamless Summer Option (SSO) and Rural Non-congregate, Food Service Management (FSMC) Contracts and Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Reminders (video starts at 5:20)
• February 13 - Commodities 101 (recording)
  • Commodities 101
• February 13 - Point of Service/Menu Documentation
• January 16 - DESE FNS Webinar:  USDA Foods Packet, Required SNP Forms, and Afterschool Snack
• November 8 - DESE- FNS Webinar: Completing the Verification Report

School Year 2022-2023

• April 19 - DESE-FNS Webinar
• April 25 - Seamless Summer Option, Non-congregate Meals for Summer 2023 (recording)
  • Seamless Summer Option, Non-congregate Meals for Summer 2023
• Verification Process Training

SDA Foods

• Procurement of Processed End Products 2023 Training

2024 Summer Workshop Recorded Presentations 

• Calculating Components and Recipes
• Key Performance Indicators
• Production Records

2022 Summer Workshop Recorded Presentations

• All About Procurement
• Approving Free and Reduced Price Applications
  • Approving Free and Reduced Price Applications - Presentation
  • Attachment E - Application
  • Attachment P - Income Eligibility Guidelines
• Benefit Issuance and Verification Special Situations
  • Benefit Issuance & Verification Special Situations - Presentation
• Benefit Issuance Basics
  • Benefit Issuance Basics - Presentation
  • School Food Acronyms
  • Attachment E- Application
  • Attachment P - Income Eligibility Guidelines
• CEP & Provision 2
• Grab and Go Meals
  • Grab and Go Meals - Presentation
  • Grab and Go Meals - New Hire Presentation
• Introduction to Gold Star
• Local School Wellness
  • Local School Wellness Policy - Presentation
  • Local Wellness Policy Checklist
  • Local Wellness Policy Final Rule
  • Assessment Template
  • Dietary Behavior
  • Integrating Nutrition Across the WSCC
  • School Breakfast Matters
  • School Meals are Healthy Meals
  • School Nutrition Policies and Practice
  • School Nutrition Whole Child Approach to Education
• Meal Pattern
  • Meal Pattern Lunch & Breakfast - Presentation
• Offer vs Serve
• Production Records and Menu Documentation
  • Production Records & Menu Documentation - Presentation
  • Acceptable Documentation Overview
  • Acceptable Product Documentation for Meal Pattern Requirements
  • Menu Documentation Check List
  • Vegetable Subgroups Chart
• Recipe Crediting
  • Recipe Crediting - Presentation
  • Crediting Commercial MMA
  • Crediting Deli Meats
  • Exhibit A
  • In a Nutshell - Crediting
• Unscrambling USDA Foods
  • Unscrambling USDA Foods - Presentation
  • Missouri USDA Foods Procedures
• Verification
  • Verification Process - Presentation
  • Verification Report Handout

2021 Summer Workshop Recorded Presentations

• Administrative Review - Seamless Summer Option
• Basics of Smart Snacks
• Basic Procurement
• Food Allergies 2.0 (Case Studies)
• Food Service Management Company RFP and Contract Basics
• Menu Analysis Basics - Calculating Meat/Meat Alternates and Grains
• New Food Service Directors Basics
• Overview of Procurement Reviews
• Professional Standards in Child Nutrition Programs
• School Meal Connections - Linking the Cafeteria to Nutrition Education
• School Food Service Revenue and Expenditure Coding
• Seamless Summer Option Program
• Understanding Area-Eligibility
• What to Expect During an Administrative Revie

2020 Summer Workshop Recorded Presentations

• 4 Day Meal Pattern Lunch and Breakfast
  • Presentation Handout
• 6 Cent Worksheets: How To Guide From Beginning To End
• Afterschool Snack and Common Findings on Review
  • Presentation Handout
• Alternative Breakfast Models
• Civil Rights
  • Presentation Handout
• Common Corrective Actions Found During the Administrative Review
  • Presentation Handout
• Crediting Gains in Recipe Converter
• Meal Pattern Lunch and Breakfast
• Standardized Recipe Converter
• Verification Process
  • Presentation Handout
• What To Expect During an Administrative Review
  • Presentation Handout

2019 Summer Workshop Recorded Presentations

• Benefit Issuance: Eligibility Basics and Direct Certification
• Calculating Meat/Meat Alternate and Grain Components
• Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)
• Completing the Five-Day Non-Program Food Revenue Tool
• Essential Documents for Food Safety and Crediting
• Free and Reduced Application Process
• How to Avoid Fiscal Action During the Administrative Review
• Local Meal Charge Policy: Regulations and Reality
• Medical Statements
• Nonprogram Food Revenue and Completing the Extended Nonprogram Food Revenue Tool
• Paid Lunch Equity Tool (PLE) Tool
• Paid Lunch Equity (PLE) Tool in Web Applications
• Pre-K Meal Pattern
• Pricing Adult Meals
• Standardized Recipes and Production Records
• Tools for Calculating Meats and Grains
• Verification Reports

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program

• FFVP Recorded Webinar

Additional Resources

• A Safe Salad Bar: Preparation and Service
• Adapting the School Lunch Program Requirements to the RCCI World
• Decreasing Plate Waste in the NSLP and SBP
• No Kid Hungry Grant Training
• Seamless Summer Option
• USDA Professional Standards Training Database
• The Institute of Child Nutrition Training and Resources
• Food Safety in Schools - ICN Training Course