NYC Alliance for CNR: Priorities for the 2009 Child Nutrition Reauthorization

Specific goals

Overall, the Reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act must:

• Make significant progress towards the goal of ending child hunger and food insecurity in America by 2015;
• Ensure that all children have access to high quality, nutritious foods, local whenever possible, in their schools and through other child nutrition programs;
• Reduce obesity and diet-related diseases and ensure productive, healthy generations; and
• Support and expand regional farm and food economies, increasing jobs, enhancing infrastructure, and reducing unsustainable environmental impact.

Summary of the Three Key Strategies to Achieve Those Goals

1. Make federal child nutrition programs universal and more nutritious while reducing their administrative paperwork and bureaucracy.
2. Give programs more resources and technical assistance to serve all children with nutritious food, local whenever possible, produced in an environmentally and economically sustainable manner.
3. Make nutrition education available to all children and caregivers through child nutrition programs.