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  • USDA Healthy Meals Incentives (HMI) Recognition Awards Best Practices and Success Story Collection Form

    • OMB Burden Statement 

    • The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is collecting this information to help obtain feedback from School Food Authorities (SFA) of their application experience for the Healthy Meals Incentives Recognition Awards.

      The application is a voluntary collection and FNS will use the information to recognize SFAs for their significant improvements to the nutritional quality of school meals by exceeding the transitional school meal pattern requirements for sodium and whole grains and by taking steps to reduce added sugars.

      This collection does not request personally identifiable information that is subject to the privacy requirements outlined at 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)3 of the Privacy Act of 1974. According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control number for this information collection is 0584-0685.

      The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 30 minutes (0.5 hour) per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information.  

    • Form Directions 

    • Do you have a best practice or success story for improving the nutritional quality of school meals that helped you meet the criteria for a Healthy Meals Incentives (HMI) Recognition Award?

      If your best practice or success story is selected, it will be featured on the Action for Healthy Kids and USDA Food and Nutrition Service’s websites, as well as in our Cafeteria Chronicles blog and newsletters. 

    • School Food Authority (SFA) Information 
    • Best Practices and Success Story Collection Form 

    • Provide a brief description (1 - 3 paragraphs) that summarizes highlights of your success story including:

      • Lessons learned, or best practices used to apply for the HMI Recognition Award(s)?
      • Any pertinent statistics or measurable outcomes you want to highlight?
      • Did you create any new practices in order to apply for an award?
      • How has this HMI Award Affected your school meal program?
      • How did you promote your HMI Award? 

    • If yes, please read through and sign the Media Release Form to give permission to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) and Action For Healthy Kids (AFHK) to use uploaded photos and videos in public marketing campaigns.

      Upload the signed Media Release Form(s) and photos of your social media posts and/or videos below:

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