Child Nutirition Program :: Parent Information
Dear Parents:
Welcome to the 2022-2023 school year!
For the past 2+ years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has offered waivers to Child Nutrition Programs (CNP) across the United States, allowing these programs to offer all students breakfast and lunch at no charge. These waivers expired on June 30, 2022.
Many families will see changes in school meals this fall. We have worked tirelessly to get healthy food to children during COVID-19, and we will keep working hard to serve children healthy meals this coming school year.
What will the 2022-2023 school year look like? Breakfast and lunch will continue to be offered. However, Child Nutrition Programs across the nation will return to pre-pandemic operations.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
The Child Nutrition Program is excited to announce our online payment system MySchoolBucks®! This online payment service provides a quick and easy way to add money to your student’s meal account using a credit/debit card or electronic check.
You can also view recent purchases, check balances, and set-up low balance alerts for FREE!
MySchoolBucks provides:
If you have any questions, contact MySchoolBucks directly:
parentsupport@myschoolbucks.com
1-855-832-5226
Visit myschoolbucks.com and click on Help/FAQ’s
The Child Nutrition Program will continue the Afterschool Meals (Supper) Program at participating schools.
The Afterschool Meals (Supper) Program is a component of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) that offers Federal funding to afterschool programs that serve a meal or snack to children through the age of 18.
In order to qualify, the program must provide educational or enrichment activities in an organized, structured, and supervised environment. Although there are no specific requirements for the types of educational and enrichment activities that a program can offer, examples include, but are not limited to, arts and crafts, homework assistance, life skills, remedial education, organized fitness activities, etc.
All programs that participate in the afterschool supper program must report the total number of meals and snacks served to eligible children based on daily attendance rosters or sign-in sheets. These records must be kept for three years.
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If your child participates daily or brings a bag lunch, he/she may purchase individual servings (Extra Sales) instead of, or in addition to, the meal offered as part of the National School Lunch Program as long as your child has money in his/her meal account.
All students can purchase the following Extra Sales items:
Additional information regarding the Extra Sales program:
Please feel free to contact your café manager if you need any additional information.
To better serve our students with special diet needs, all dietary orders will need to be renewed EACH SCHOOL YEAR. Dietary requests will be valid only for the school year in which they are written and will expire at the end of the school year. Current dietary requests will expire on the last day of school of this current school year.
If you have not submitted a form for this school year, please submit a form to your Café Manager and school nurse on a current Louisiana Special dietary order form. As with new dietary requests, signature from a physician or other recognized medical authority is required.
Download Food Allergy Form
A student’s meal account money will be automatically carried over to the next school year. However, parents/guardians should submit a Refund Request at the end of the current school year if any of the following situations occur:
Refund Requests will be accepted during the current school year for the following reasons only:
If any of the above apply to your child(ren), please complete the 2022-2023 Request for Refund of Meal Money Form and email it to cnp@diobr.org.
Refunds will be made by check only and will be mailed to the address indicated on the Refund Request form. No credit / debit cards will be credited. Convenience fees charged for making online payments and NSF fees are non-refundable.
Please allow 30 days for your request to be processed from the date it is received in the Child Nutrition Program's Central Office.
All End-of-Year refunds will be processed in June.
NOTE: If you are trying to request a refund for the 2021-2022 school year, please download, fill out, and submit it to the CNP office as soon as possible.