Summer Food Service Program

Below is the link to the SFSP Recission Webinar that was recorded on February 5th, 2019. Since this this webinar took palce, SED in the process of requesting Statewide waivers for Offer vs. Serve, Meal Time Restrictions, and qualifying Closed Enrolled Sites using SED data. These waivers will soon be posted on our website.

https://vimeo.com/315985658

The New York State Education Department (SED) review process is required by Part 7 CFR, Section 225 of the Federal regulations for sponsors administering the SFSP. The objective of the review process is to ensure program compliance through the evaluation of the sponsor’s program operations by observing site operations and conducting a fiscal audit of the SFSP administration. SED reviews all SFSP sponsors a minimum of once every three years.

Sponsor training is mandatory for all experienced and potential new Summer Food Service Program sponsors. The New York State Education Department (SED) will conduct seven training workshops and three webinars in March, April and May. SED will offer separate training webinars for experienced sponsors and potential sponsors. Webinar attendance fulfills the mandatory training requirement. All training locations and webinar dates are listed on page three.

SED will conduct a  webinar on February 5th at 1:00pm to address the memo recently released by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) SFSP 01-2019 pertaining to SFSP rescinded waivers. SED will review the memo and provide guidance on Program expectations as a result of these waiver rescissions.  A copy of the webinar will be available on our website shortly after it is conducted for anyone not available to attend live. All SFSP Sponsors are encouraged to attend.

In the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), sponsors operating sites located in and drawing their attendance from needy areas can qualify to receive SFSP reimbursement for up to two meals served to children at the sites daily. These sites can operate as open, restricted open or closed enrolled in a needy area. School data can be used to establish area eligibility for these types of sites.

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) recently released SFSP 01-2019. This memo rescinds six waivers previously granted to the Summer Food Service Program in response to a recent audit conducted by the Office of Inspector General (OIG). These flexibilities will no longer be available to Summer Food Service Program Sponsors:

For all sponsors that operated the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) in 2018, the SFSP Renewal on the Child Nutrition Management System (CNMS) is now active for the 2018 summer. It is expected that all experienced sponsors will access and submit the renewal on-line and send any additional required information via fax, email or mail. 

To begin the Renewal on-line:

Go to http://www.cn.nysed.gov

Click on “Log In”,

Log in with your User Name and Password,

Click “I Agree” to agree to the terms listed,

The New York State Education Department (SED) will conduct seven training workshops at various locations throughout the State in March and April. Training dates and locations are listed on page three. Experienced sponsors may sign up for the webinar instead of attending one of the in-person training sessions, however all potential new non-SFA sponsors are required to attend training in either Albany, Goshen, Syracuse, Buffalo, Elmira, or Brooklyn (training for sponsors with camp sites only).

The New York State Education Department (SED) review process is required by Part 7 CFR, Section 225 of the Federal regulations for sponsors administering the SFSP. The objective of the review process is to ensure program compliance through the evaluation of the sponsor’s program operations by observing site operations and conducting a fiscal audit of the SFSP administration. SED reviews all SFSP sponsors a minimum of once every three years.