Quick Links:

• CACFP - Child and Adult Care Food Program
• SFSP - Summer Food Service Program
• SMP - Non-School Special Milk Program (SMP)
• School Nutrition Programs
• USDA Foods Program

Child and Adult Care Food Program

• CACFP Training Webcasts for Child Care Centers
  Missed training? Need a refresher? The Community Nutrition Team provides CACFP training via webcasts. Webcasts allow you to view taped presentations that include PowerPoint slides on the web.

• CACFP Training Webcasts for Adult Day Care Center
  Missed training? Need a refresher? The Community Nutrition Team provides CACFP training via webcasts. Webcasts allow you to view taped presentations that include PowerPoint slides on the web.

• 2012 CACFP Summer Training Presentations, Handouts and Webcasts

• 2011 CACFP Summer Training Conference Presentations and Handouts

• ​2010 CACFP Summer Training PowerPoint Presentations

• Feeding Kids in the CACFP
  1. Nutrition and Meal Planning
  2. Sample Menus and Recipes
  3. Portion Sizes
  4. CN Labels - Crediting Foods
  5. Food Safety and Sanitation
• CACFP Recordkeeping Essentials
  1. Are you ready for a CACFP Review?
  2. Sample Corrective Action Responses: The responses in this handout are only samples to guide your center in properly writing corrective action in response to a DPI review.
  3. Civil Rights PowerPoint Presentation
  4. Civil Rights Handout: This is a handout of the Civil Rights presentation posted above that can be printed and given to staff.
• Other Nutrition Trainings and Handouts (There are notes at the bottom of each PP slide that may give more information than what is on the slide. You may need to increase the slide size for some slides in order to read the content.)
  1. Production Records: This presentation details how to complete production records using the Food Buying Guide.
  2. Instructions for Production Records
  3. Production Records Samples
  4. Menus, Meal Service Types, Vendor Agreements: This presentation goes through 3 menu exercises, talks about meal service types and briefly discusses vendor agreements.
  5. Whole Grains: This presentation discusses how to determine if a product is whole grain. Specific examples are provided.
  6. CACFP Menu Planning Guide

Summer Food Service Program

• Register now for Refresher and New Sponsor/Administrative Personnel Training.  There are 3 sessions left!  

  Refresher sessions:

  • Rhinelander – combined camp and non-camp sponsors, March 13th, 9 am - noon
  • Rice Lake – separate camp & non-camp session, March 20th, 9 am - noon

  ​New sponsor/administrative personnel training (also open to those that were scheduled for the Oak Creek training that was cancelled):

  • Madison - April 3rd, 9 am – 3 pm.

• SFSP Training Webcasts Missed training? Need a refresher? Webcasts allow you to view taped presentations that include PowerPoint slides on the web.

• Please contact Amy Kolano, (608) 266-7124 for questions regarding the program. Visit the DPI SFSP web pages for more information.

School Nutrition Programs

• Do you have a training request that is not listed below? Complete a Training Request form.
• Is your SFA interested in hosting a hands-on menu certification workshop in your computer lab? For more information send an e-mail to Molly Amberg at Molly.Amberg@dpi.wi.gov.

Upcoming Training Opportunities

• Spring 2013 Training Opportunities Announced:
  • School Breakfast Meal Pattern Workshops
    • Register Now! - Registration will initially be limited to two participants from each School Food Authority (SFA). If room is available one week prior to training, additional participants may register. Check Training web page for availability. 
  • Small Victories
    • Register Now!
  • Menu Certification Workshop - The April 10^th Menu Certification Workshop is full.
    • Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - Menu Certification Workshop at DPI-GEF 3, 125 S Webster Street, Madison, WI from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. To register, send an email to Cindy Loechler at cynthia.loechler@dpi.wi.gov.
  • New Lunch Meal Pattern Mini-Training
    • Register Now!
       
• School Nutrition Skills Development Courses (SNSDC) - Summer 2013 - TBD

Recurring Training Opportunities

• Great Beginnings Academy
  • A one year training experience for managers/directors new to School Nutrition Programs. Full day classes will be in Madison at the Department of Public Instruction. Please contact Cindy Loechler, 608-266-5185, for more information.
    • Great Beginnings Academy, complete and submit application form
• What's New with School Nutrition
  • Monthly webcasts (2nd Tuesday; starting at 2PM) that include updates for all school nutrition programs, grants and reauthorization guidance.
    • Agendas, Archived Webcasts or Join Current Webcast
• School Nutrition Skills Development Courses (SNSDC)
  • View Recorded Webcasts
• ServSafe: Food Safety and Sanitation Course
  • Offered Around the State per the Wisconsin Restaurant Association.
  • Classes offered on-site at DPI on an 'as needed' basis. Please contact Julie Shelton, 608-267-9132, for more information.
• Small Victories

  • Training Series for Foodservice Professionals Working in Schools with Limited Enrollments. Please contact Loriann Knapton, 608-266-1046, for more information.

Training Resources

• Action for Healthy Kids ® Webcasts
  • ​Upcoming Events and Webinars
  • Archived Webinars
• Civil Rights Training for Front-Line Staff
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Attendance Record
• Cooks for Kids
  • A series of nine 30-minute training programs from the National Food Service Management Institute that showcases the fact that children should have access to healthy food and be able to make healthy food choices wherever they are. View live or recorded.
• Direct Certification Webcast
  • Wisconsin's Direct Certification Process - Connecting Kids to Healthy School Meals
    • PowerPoint, Script, and Recording
• Food Allergy eCourse
  • Children's Health Education Center provides Learning all about Food Allergies a short on-line course that informs on the basics of food allergies.
• Healthy Edge: Building Healthy School Meals Course
  • Check SNA of WI website for scheduled trainings
  • Available on an "as needed" basis. Please contact Cindy Loechler, 608-266-5185, for more information.
  • Check School Nutrition University the School Nutrition Association On-line training schedule.
• Menu Certification
  • USDA 6 Cents Certification Worksheet Demonstration Series (New School Meal Pattern Requirements and Nutrition Standards) 
• Procurement via the National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI) Web-based Trainings
  • Initially only offered to State Agency staff this training is now available for school personnel and the public. Click on the link and locate the USDA State Agency Guidance to Procurement Topic 1 or 2 courses. Users will need to register for the courses, and first time users will need to create a profile. 
• School Nutrition Association (SNA) Webinar Wednesdays
  • Free for SNA members opportunities to train at your desk. Topics are timely and sessions are archived for review whenever convenient.
• School Nutrition Programs Getting Started Resource
  • New to School Nutrition Programs or need a refresher? This is an on-line manual that will help you get started and put resources at your finger tips.
• School Nutrition Team Webcasts for Training
  • Missed training? Need a refresher? The School Nutrition Team now provides training via webcasts. Webcasts allow you to view taped presentations that include PowerPoint slides on the web
• School Nutrition University
  • School Nutrition Association On-line training. Browse their COURSE CATALOG and Check out the classes you can take right from your own computer.

 Archived Conference Presentations

• Focusing on New Requirements Today - Seeing Healthier Schools Tomorrow Child Nutrition Reauthorization Conferences (June 2012) 
  • Presentations' PowerPoints:
    • General Session
    • Grain Requirements, Handouts, and Recording
    • New Meal Pattern: Fruits and Vegetables - Script, and Recording
    • Nutrition Standards and New Meal Pattern Requirements , Recordings - High Fidelity or Low Resolution Replay (WMV) (1 hour 25 minutes), and Handouts
    • Menu Certification and Recording
    • Offer Versus Serve: Meal or No Meal
    • Paid Lunch Equity
• School Nutrition Association of Wisconsin Annual Conference DPI Breakout Sessions (June 2012) 
  • In a Nutshell: New Nutrition Standards and Meal Pattern Requirements for the National School Lunch Program
  • Three Bids and a Buy: Moving away from vendor loyalty and towards competition (Informal Purchasing Process) - Handouts
  • School Wellness Policies - Handouts
• School Food Service Forum for School Year 2006-2007
  • WisLine Web presentations
    
    

    Topic (Click on title to view presentation)	Date	Description	PowerPoint
    Making $en$e out of Your Child Nutrition Report	12/11/06	Armed with the information provided in this session, you will have the basic knowledge to analyze program participation trends, establish meal prices, and to determine staffing patterns for each program offered.	PowerPoint
    Lights, Camera, Promotions! (Great Beginnings Academy)	3/13/07	Ideas to help you market your programs.	PowerPoint

• School Food Service Forum Library
  • You may request a CD from our library of a past session by contacting Julie Cox at 608-261-6328.
    1. Maximizing Meal Participation - Thursday, February 23, 2006
    2. Managing Challenging Staff - Tuesday, January 10, 2006
    3. Finance for Food Service Managers - May 5, 2005
    4. Customer Service and School Meals - February 22, 2005
    5. How to Coach Staff to Better Performance - December 16, 2004

USDA Food Distribution Program

Upcoming Training Opportunities

• None at this time.

Recent Training Opportunities

• Training for New Programs and New Staff Regarding the Annual USDA Food Order: - Department of Public Instruction (DPI).
  • DPI offered a training session specifically for new Food Service staff and programs new to the USDA Food Program. The session is designed to prepare participating agencies in placing the Annual USDA Food Order. The training session covers the basics of planning for an annual order (i.e. what USDA foods to orders, the amounts to order, how to receive the orders, etc.). For more information, please contact Dino Ante: antonio.ante@dpi.wi.gov.
• Direct Diversion Processing Training: September 25, 2012; 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM; Wisconsin Dells Center at Chula Vista Resort.
  • DPI offered a no-fee training session on Direct Diversion Processing prior to the Direct Diversion Food Show scheduled on the same day (Food Show from 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.). The session covered the basics of the process, requirements at the school level, etc. Direct Diversion is the process of sending selected bulk, raw USDA foods directly to the selected processors to process into finished end-products. With this option, each school is directly responsible for procuring and selecting processors and finished end-products.

Wisconsin USDA Foods Webcasts

• WI USDA Food Team Webcasts - Missed training? Need a refresher? The WI USDA Food Team now provides training via webcasts. Webcasts allow you to view taped presentations that include PowerPoint slides on the web.