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SNA Certificate & Credentialing
Blood, SWOT and Tears – Leveraging your Community Partnerships to Achieve Your Biggest Dreams for Your Program
Creating collaborative relationships with community partners is a key to success for any foodservice operation. Hear about real-world experiences of successful collaborations—with vendors, community organizations and students.
Procuring Lower-Sodium Foods for School Meals
Learn how to identify lower-sodium foods, communicate and collaborate with distributors to procure lower-sodium food products and recognize how to utilize fresh local foods, as well as the USDA Foods and DoD Fresh Programs, to lower the sodium content of your menus.
Say It Like It Matters, When It Matters
This powerful education session, taught by one of America’s most successful public speaking coaches, will help you prepare, develop and deliver effective presentations in a variety of situations.
Recruiting, Retention and Building your Bench with Professional Development
Find out how to creatively recruit, train and develop your staff so that they want to stay for years to come and learn how to recognize leadership potential in all of your staff members so that you can develop them into your future leaders.
USDA Update, ANC 2023
Learn about the latest regulatory developments in child nutrition programs, as well as USDA Foods and other initiatives.
Unpaid Meals: Proactive Strategies to Prevent School Lunch Debt
Presenters share proactive strategies to prevent and manage unpaid meal charges. including a reminder of the local charge policy requirement, available resources from USDA and best practices managing unpaid meal charges at the local level.
Food Allergies: Ask and Share Session
Get the facts about food allergies and discover new ways to improve how you handle food allergies and keep kids safe in your cafeteria.
All Things School Gardens
Discover why school gardens are becoming increasingly important in districts across the country and how educating students through school gardens can impact their minds, bodies and the world around them.
Understanding USDA Foods Entitlement
Gain a better understanding of USDA Foods entitlement with an overview of topics such as entitlement calculation, planned assistance level and state and school food authority roles and responsibilities including management of inventories and practices such as “sweeps.”
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore…Floods, Hurricanes, Threats, and Tornadoes, Oh My!
Learn how an effective emergency preparedness plan is necessary and will ready the program to ensure the safe storage, production and service of food during uncertain situations, and explore how to develop your own plan and learn from other experts.