Colorado Department of Education - LMS

Provides guidance for School Food Authorities planning to apply for the 2021-22 CHF Mini Grant Program. This funding will help sponsors improve child nutrition programs to ensure children have equitable, stigma-free, geographically convenient, regular (all day, year-round) access to healthy food and adequate time to eat it.

Module:

1. Application Guidance, Instructions, and Resources

This course provides a series of modules designed to bolster your ability to use the Colorado Nutrition Portal. The Portal is used by Child Nutrition Program Sponsors to complete annual renewal program applications, submit reimbursement claims for meals served, view historical and current program data, view and submit Administrative Review information and much more!

Modules:

1. Colorado Nutrition Portal: Take the Tour  
2. SSO Application Screen Recording
3. Direct Certification: How to Prepare and Upload
4. How to Submit Applications (coming soon)
5. How to Submit Claims (coming soon)

Administrative Reviews (AR) ensure program integrity and compliance, offer additional training and support, and acknowledge the positive efforts and innovative approaches to serving nutritious meals to children during the school year. 

Modules:

1. Administrative Review Overview
2. General Program Compliance
3. Meal Access and Reimbursement
4. Meal Patterns and Nutrition Quality
5. Syncplicity Guidance 

This course is intended for any School Food Authorities (SFAs) who are either interested in participating in the Afterschool Snack Program (ASP) or who are already participating and would like a better understanding of ASP. 

Module:

1. Afterschool Snack Program (ASP)

An introduction to the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), how to define "identified students" in your school and/or district, and the benefits of implementing CEP.

Modules:

1. Introduction to Data and Reporting 
2. Considerations for Implementation 

An overview of meal counting and claiming procedures. 

Modules:

1. Meal Counting  
2. Meal Claiming  

Outlines creditable foods, how to calculate meal pattern contributions, and how to use the USDA Food Buying Guide.

Modules:

1. Crediting Fruits, Vegetables, and the Food Buying Guide
2. Crediting Grains
3. Crediting Meat and Meat Alternatives

Provides information on accurate forecasting and inventory management techniques. These trainings are part of the Masterclass Leadership series. 

Modules:

1. Forecasting Essentials
2. Inventory Essentials 

Covers food safety requirements for school food authorities operating child nutrition programs and how to offer a share table within the context of food safety.

1. Food Safety in Schools
2. Share Tables 101

Provides an overview of the process and requirements for school food authorities who choose to work with food service management companies.

Modules:

1. Request for Proposal (RFP) Process for Contracting with Vended Meals and Food Service Management Companies
2. Contracts 101 (coming soon)

Provides an overview of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) including regulations, best practices, and claiming procedures.

Modules:

1. Overview of FFVP
2. FFVP Claiming

Covers annual verification requirements, including timelines and documents. Learn how to accurately identify error-prone applications, calculate the verification sample pool, properly notify households and confirm eligibility. 

Module:

1. Income Verification

Outlines meal pattern requirements in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP).

Modules:

1. Meal Pattern Documentation
2. Meal Pattern & Offer vs. Serve (OVS) Requirements in NSLP (coming soon)
3. Meal Pattern & OVS Requirements in SBP (coming soon)

Provides the background and regulations on production records in child nutrition programs.

Module:

1. Production Records

Provides an overview of procurement in child nutrition programs. 

Module:

1. Procurement 101

1. Regulations and Process Overview
2. Processing Income Applications (coming soon)
3. Processing Categorical Applications

Required training series before operating the Summer Food Service Program. 

New Modules coming soon.

Supplemental training for the Summer Food Service Program. Excellent for training site staff.

New modules coming soon.

Series of trainings designed to equip school lunchrooms with evidence-based tools that improve child eating behaviors and thus improve the health of children. Smarter Lunchroom principles are simple low and no-cost changes you can make to your lunchrooms to improve participation and profits while reducing waste.

Modules:

1. The Six Principles of Behavioral Economics
2. The Smarter Lunchrooms Scorecard - Part 1
3. The Smarter Lunchrooms Scorecard - Part 2
4. The Four Step Path

Provides the background and regulations of accommodating special dietary needs in school meal programs. 

Module:

1. Special Dietary Needs