Importance of Meal Applications During Universal

Meals in the 2022-2023 School Year

School meal applications not only affect the child nutrition program but also greatly impact other revenue sources, most notably LCFF.    To operate a financially sound child nutrition program and to maximize scarce district general fund resources, great attention must be paid to the process used to determine meal applications for the 2022-23 school year.   This workshop will review:

• House incentives to complete meal applications

• Differences between meal applications and alternate income forms

• The correlation between meal applications and LCF funding

• Best practices

• Common Mistakes

• Challenges