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TN Training Grants

Team Nutrition (TN) Training Grants for Healthy School Meals have been identified in USDA's National Strategic Plan for Training and Technical Assistance as one of the anchor delivery systems for supporting the implementation of USDA's nutrition requirements and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in school meals. TN Training Grants offer funding to State agencies to establish or enhance sustainable infrastructures for implementing TN.

From 1995 through 2004, the efforts by State agencies receiving TN Training Grants have resulted in:
bullet Many Child Nutrition Program foodservice personnel receiving training and technical assistance to enable them to prepare and serve nutritious meals that appeal to students.
bullet The use of many USDA developed TN materials to assist foodservice staff in serving nutritious meals that meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
bullet Focusing on the 5 a Day program to improve students' fruit and vegetable consumption.
bullet Creating a healthy school environment using the USDA's resource, Changing the Scene: Improving the School Nutrition Environment: A Guide to Local Action.
bullet Collaborating with other State agencies and organizations to achieve the Team Nutrition goal and to address child nutrition/health issues, such as obesity and physical inactivity.
bullet Many mini grants to local school districts to assist their efforts to promote healthy eating and physical activity.
bullet Efforts to integrate nutrition education into students learning content standards, including trainings and workshops provided to teachers.
bullet Many childcare children and school age students enjoying healthier school/childcare meals and students and their parents/caregivers are exposed to good nutrition information.

  Applications
Received		 Applications
Funded		 Period of
Performance
Funding
1995 31 19 7/95 - 12/96 $3,376,082
1996 17 17 9/96 - 3/98 $2,710,920
1997 32 19 8/97 - 8/99 $4,008,207
1998 29 17 8/98 - 8/00 $4,024,013
1999 23 12 8/99 - 8/01 $2,297,480
1999* 4 4 8/99 - 8/02 $1,914,870
2000 36 33 9/00 - 12/01 $3,203,969
2001 36 24 9/01 - 9/03 $4,551,143
2002 29 21 9/02 - 9/04 $4,123,155
2003 36 21 9/03 - 9/05 $4,025,385
2004 34 21 9/04 - 9/06 $3,963,896
Total 303 204 - - $37,001,829
* Demonstraton Project

TN Demonstration Projects

For Fiscal Year 1999, Public Law 105-277 authorized $4 million for school food service training grants to State agencies that administer the National School Lunch Program. The $4 million was divided between two separate projects – the traditional TN Training Grants and a new initiative entitled TN Demonstration Projects.

The TN Demonstration Projects will be high visibility projects that provide States the opportunity to enter into a cooperative agreement with FNS to help develop models of firmly established TN initiatives that appeal to and assist States across the country. Participating State agencies will implement TN initiatives that provide positive nutrition messages through the six TN communication channels:

bulletclassroom activities
bulletfood service initiatives
bulletschool-wide events
bullethome activities
bulletcommunity events
bulletmedia events and coverage

Further, State agencies will implement TN initiatives by incorporating the TN instructional materials developed in cooperation with Scholastic, Inc. As part of the Demonstration Projects, participating States will be partners in the development of a TN technical assistance guide intended to assist other States in TN implementation. States will also be given the opportunity to influence decisions on what data are useful and reasonable to collect through a pilot TN routine-reporting system, and how often that data should be collected.

For the TN Demonstration Projects, USDA received four applications of which all were selected for funding. The TN Demonstration Projects were funded for the period August 31, 1999 through August 20, 2002.


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