Webinars/Workshops

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

Let's Talk Tuesday

Let's Talk Tuesday Spring Save the Dates and Schedule of Webinars

Certificate of Completion Let's Talk Tuesday.
Let’s Talk Tuesday Spring Save the Dates and Schedule of Webinars 

School Year 2024-2025 

• March 18 – Local Food for Schools (LFS) for Farm to School
• February 11 - Commodities 101 (recording)
  • Commodities 101 - Presentation slides
• September 24 - USDA Foods: New School Year, New Faces, New Products, New Procedures - What you need to know (recording)
• January 21 - USDA Foods: Unwrapping the Packet 2025 (recording)
• January 21- USDA Foods: Unwrapping the Packet 2025 Presentation Slides

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