2011 Summer Food Services Program

Letter
Application

The Chicago Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) is in preparationfor the 2011 Summer Food Service Program. This Program is funded by the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture (USDA) and administered by the Illinois StateBoard of Education (ISBE). DFSS serves as the sponsor for the City of Chicago.The Department encourages your organization to get involved this summer andbecome a summer food service program host site. As a host site, your agency will beable to receive free daily meals for children and teens up to the age of eighteen (18).All meals served meet USDA Nutritional Guidelines. The most common types ofDFSS host sites are the following:

• Open Sites —Any Child in the community may receive a mealwithout being enrolled in the program’s activities.

• Enrolled Sites — Children participate in the program’s activitiesand receive the meals• Camp Sites —Offers a regularly scheduled food service as part ofthe day camp program

In 2010, over 300 Summer Food Service Program sites participated in serving meals(breakfast, lunch, snack, and supper) throughout Chicago. This year our goal is tohave over 500 host sites operate the program and have more of them operate as“Open Sites” available to all hungry children, thereby reducing the number of hungrychildren in our poorest neighborhoods.

Children do not necessarily have to be enrolled in your program in order to receivethe free meal but they must eat the food on-site. We now have three area offices—North, South and West in order to make it easier for sites to handle the paperwork.Interested agencies may complete the attached application(s) and return it to:

Attn: Diamond Ingram
Summer Food Service Program
Department of Family and Support Services
4314 S. Cottage GroveChicago, IL 60653.

You may also fax the application to 312-745-3515 or 312-747-0490. If you have further questions, please contact our offices at 312-747-2020 or 312-747-2326