Hi Everyone! Welcome to the community of practice call. Please introduce yourself, what school district or agency you are from, and share one thing you are grateful for this week.

Ken Hecht from UC nutrition Policy Institute. Thanks for doing this.

Debbie Campbell YES Charter Academy

Hello! Kristin Hilleman from Capistrano USD

Hi! This is Shannon Illingworth also from Capistrano USD.

Heather Berkoben, Dairy Council of California

Erica Lee, Robla School District

Hi everyone! Nora Stewart from CHIP's Farm to Institution Center- we facilitate the Farm to School Taskforce in San Diego County. One thing I am really grateful for is how many resources are filling up my inbox! Really great to see things moving. Thank you Jen, Leyla and Mickinzie for hosting.

Beth Katz, Food Insight Group

Dylan Hatami, West Contra Costa USD

Hi! Kristin Zellhart from Eat REAL

Barbara Hughes, from County of SD HHSA. Grateful for encountering folks I haven't seen in years through neighborhood walks.

Hi Everyone, Meghan Murphy from County of SD HHSS too. Grateful for how much I've been cooking!

Good morning(: Jacqueline Ibarra from San Diego Hunger Coalition. Im grateful for all of the collaboration!

Nancy Deming from Oakland Unified and neighboring school disticts in the Bay Area. Grateful for the collaboration and support.

Hi everyone, Jane Alvarado-Banister, with the Center for Wellness and Nutrition at the Public Health Institute. I work in the Central Valley of CA supporting a consortium of districts. This week I am thankful for the beautiful weather and amazing partners sharing out some creative resources.

Deirdre Kleske, County of San Diego, grateful for waivers!

Leslie Pring, Twin Rivers USD in Sacramento area

How do we know that a family has what they need to cook the hot items

Now I want to pause and just ask all of you who are logged into the call to take a moment to share either: 1) an innovation your team has implemented, OR 2) something innovative that you’ve seen implemented elsewhere that you might want to try

Ben Thomas, CAFF

We would love to try the multi day meal program but at this time we are providing two cold meals and three hot meals

Partnered with Redwood Empire Food Bank to serve meals as part of weekly pantry pick ups. - Ed Burke.

THANK YOU for creating these!

I do like the plexiglass on table. We set up a table 20 - 30 feet away. We place food on that table and ask parents to get of the car to pick up their own food. It separates everyone. It has been working for us up to now.

These are wonderful! Thank you! Great resource.

As we are a charter high school we partnered with our feeder school and we are serving at the middle school so that all district kids can pick up at the same school.

I am interested to know if any LEAs are delivering school meals by mail?

HI Jen! Thank you for organizing this chat. We are starting to serve a five day distribution tomorrow for Spring Break. Wish us luck! We currently are using 6ft tables at our drive ups and we put the items on a tray at the end of the tables and one person in the car gets off and takes it off the tray. This has worked great for both us and the Community! Thanks Frances

We are cooking scratch food items, cooling them down and then dishing them up in containers and serving cold. We are a smaller district, we do everything manual no machines, so this is huge for us and our families!!!

EVERYONE at SRVUSD has been wearing masks from the onset. Staff, drivers, etc.

What are your programs doing or not doing in relation to masks? Any innovations to share here?

Staff who are distributing meals will start wearing masks during service. We trained staff on proper use of masks on Tuesday and Wednesday. Also, working with district nurse on information and education

One of our local districts has instituted a procedure for parents/guardians picking up meals without kids present: : "Parent emails site coordinator who will send a unique code to the family to use for meal pick up." This procedure appears to be working.

No masks in my district. We are rural

A teacher made masks for all staff.

If no masks, maintain 6ft distance. Leave food on table. Recipients approach table. Staff is 6ft behind table.

What else might be helpful for continuing your operation for the next few months? If anyone has an idea they would like to share, please post it in the chat box. :)

MHUSD is using a “pop your trunk” method. Parents stay in cars.

pop your trunk is awesome!

Lots of homemade cloth mask on Etsy.

lots of school sites may have pop up tents, ask principals, we were able to get all sites ones

I have applied, haven't heard back

Yes.

Heard back yesterday

SFUSD has applied for NKH

For San Diego County- "Uniting with Homemade Masks- San Diego County" facebook group- there is a form you can fill out to request homemade sewed facemasks. They have given away hundreds in just a few days!

Has anyone applied for any of these additional funding opportunities? If so what has been your experience so far?

I submitted my request yesterday. They take the info and will follow back with funding opportunities that may apply to our needs. I haven't heard back from them yet.

NKH was easy! we got canopies

I submitted the No Kid Hungry yesterday it has 2 detailed questions

Will you be sending out these funding opportunities via email?

Yes Jane - we will include all of the slides and links

Good Q!

Yes. Received an award from No Kid Hungry. Super easy! Funds were transferred very quickly!

I have applied to both and they are both super easy!

This is Catherine from OUSD. I contacted our state agency and they said there are very little funds.

They still were able to give us $5,000. :)

Hi Catherine — which funds were they related to? State funds, or the grants we are discussing? Thank you for clarifying.

Have to drop off for another call - great info., as always!

Thanks for joining, Deidre!

What is one way you or someone on your team are practicing good leadership?

Sorry Leyla, it was our state agency. Amy Bell is our representative.

Gotcha! Thanks for letting us know.

From Irene at Alisal USD: I find that working directly with our leadership daily has helped with daily communication. Input from all is key to making this a positive working environment.

I’ve insisted that a school Administrator also be at each of our sites every time we serve meals. We have had Cabinet members, Principals and others sign up on a google sign up sheet. This has brought a new level of awareness and support from everyone.

That’s an awesome strategy Miguel. It takes a village.

I am making meal sand serving alongside staff members every single day.

See Univ Washington epi curve. COVID outbreak does not slow until June, even with "stay in place". Schools will not re-open this school year.

Go Rosa!

Dr. Readhead - I think we are still waiting on official directive from state, but Dept. of Ed does seem to be readying everyone for that.

Governor Newsom said that CA schools will NOT reopen this school year. See CA.gov Office of the Governor website.

That was not a mandate by Gov. Newsome, some districts have just voted to return on May 4th. With a board meeting on April 25th they may change that decision.

There is still local control

OUSD will be closed the rest of the year.

For leadership questions I've been expressing appreciation to staff AND not sugar coating the situation.

We are navigating into providing at home training for our staff not coming into work. We are using free trainings from ICN and SNA, now figuring out how to bundle it into cohesive trainings for staff via google classroom.

Yes, your county Health Officer is the best person to ask about schools. The power to close schools fundamentally lies with them at the local level.

LunchAssist is working on developing some training packages for staff to complete at home as well. Stay tuned!

I have to sign off to check in with a school site… Thanks everyone for the great info. Will be sharing with my team. Here’s some info on what we’re doing…Janelle Manzano, San Diego Unified1. Developed our own Safety Checklists week 1 of serving - to assure sites have ideal set up. (One question is asking volunteers/team if they feel safe?) Protocol changed almost daily with new guidelines from CDC.2. Partnered with FoodBanks & even Humane Society which provided dog and cat food3. Assembling PPE kits with gloves, sanitizer, safety guidelines, water bottles, etc for our serving sites4. Volunteers are only district employees5. Planning to use social media/newsletter to incorporate at home nutrition activities or informationI do not have the slides - Can this be emailed to me, please? Thank you again!

Thank you so much for sharing, Janelle

Will the chat strand be available to review with other resources after the meeting is over?

We will send slides. And Frank, we have gotten a few inquiries about sharing the chat box too — shouldn’t be a problem :)

COVID-19

One district, is providing no-prep meals for families without prep ability.

Some districts offer vegetarian options as well.

The CDE advised us to check with the local Dept of Environmental Health regarding heating food at home.

COVID-19 "A Frontline Guide for Local Decision Makers". See Indicators of Progress # 3 is about FOOD SUPPLY/DISTRIBUTION

Hi Everyone: Looks like there are now 12 waivers as of yesterday evening! https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/nationwide-waiver-60-day-reporting-requirements

This new waiver allows you to submit Jan and Feb claims late if needed

Thank you Jen!

Thanks for the great information.

Public health models keep high risk people at home for 12-18 months. This would not be all children. But this would likely be children that are high-risk medically or children with high risk contacts at home.

That is correct Jennifer. That is same for SRVUSD regarding employees who are working or not for that matter.

Wow that is interesting. Thank you for sharing Dr. Readhead. It seems like we should plan for us to be impacting us for at least a year and half.

We are starting to provide masks in SFUSD. Starting with paper masks and now sourcing NK95's

Our District is using dust masks. We have run out of N95

All the above for us regarding masks for SRVUSD. Some come from our district and some are donated by organizations.

We have disposable mask. We also had a volunteer make masks and provided education on how to reuse the cloth one.

No guidance at MHUSD, yet. Staff has begun wearing them if they have them. I “know a guy” and will be getting 50 N95 delivered.

Oakland Unified purchased a washable version.

CDC has guidance on RE-USE masks

Thank you, Dr Readhead. I will take a look at that.

Is anyone on the call not serving over spring break?

We’ll send those guidelines out! Thank you

Any update on Chinese version of materials

^ We are looking into this

SFUSD is serving over spring break

Thank you for hosting! I appreciate all the valuable information. Will share back with my team!

This was a fantastic presentation. Thank you!

West Contra Costa USD is serving over spring break (next week) too

Another best practice we added is wearing plastic aprons.

Thank you everyone! Great information!

Yes, thank you!!!!

What style of apron is best for use in this situation. I had read that the virus may adhere to a smooth surface better than fabric.

Thank you all! This is such valuable work!

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Thank you! Wonderful call.

Thank you. Stay safe!!

Thank you! WONDERFUL call.

Thank you! Super helpful!!

Great video!

I love this! thanks for sharing the video

Thank you for sharing. So nice

Thank you all!!

Have a great week.