Click here to download a PDF comparing the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act and the Improving Nutrition For America's Children Act.

This document contains all of the information you'll need to talk to everyone from policy makers and reporters to your neighbors and friends.

Click here to download a PDF of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Talking Points.

One April 13th 2010 the Washington Child Nutrition Coalition came together to release a message to congress urging Congress to make a greater investment in the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act.

Click here to download a PDF of this message. 

For more information contact Linda Stone by phone (509) 844-1314 or
e-mail linda<at>childrensalliance<dot>org

Washington Child Nutrition Coalition priorities

Click here for a table of the Washington Child Nutrition Reauthorization Coalition and Current Federal CHild Nutrition Legislation

Click here for a comprehensive list of the Washington Child Nutrition Reauthorization Coalition Priorities

In April 2010 the United States Senate unanimously passed the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act completing one of the first steps in a long process of improving our national child nutrition programs.  The Washington Child Nutrition Reauthorization Coalition prepared a response to the new legislation, both applauding the bipartisan support for the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act and identifying key areas for improvement.

Lawmakers are debating ways to adopt a balanced budget by March 11th—they can either cut services, raise revenue, or do a combination of both. We support a balanced approach that includes significant new revenues. Delaying action is not an option. Read more about why kids need revenue now.

Washington State U.S. Representative Rick Larsen, from the 2nd Congressional District, has co-sponsored legislative to expand access to afterschool meals and snacks for low-income children and reduce paperwork for providers.

Here's a quick fact sheet for the “Ensuring All Students Year-round (EASY) Access to Meals and Snacks Act of 2009,” (H.R. 4274).

The House and Senate budget proposals contain a reduction in state funds for the WIC Program of $1.01 million. This level of reduction will jeopardize WIC client services AND result in a significant reduction in the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program.

More than 40 organizations have signed on to a letter to legislators urging protection of the WIC funding. Read the letter and see the list of organizational supporters.