What is Summer Meal Partners?
Summer Meal Partners (SMP) of Northwest Ohio is dedicated to making sure every child is offered nutritious meals at no cost each summer.
SMP is a collaboration of community organizations that have joined together to form community wide partnerships designed to create enrichment opportunities at meal sites in order to
Increase attendance
Prevent learning loss
Educate children about nutrition basics
Encourage children to return each day
Ensure greater supervision and safety for the children
Engage Children in fun activities
SMP works to develop innovative approaches to eliminate barriers for children, implement community-wide solutions to hunger, and obtain key data to drive decision making.
For more information about Summer Meal Partners, please contact Suzanne Saggese by email at saggese.1@osu.edu
or phone at 419-574-0985
SMP Resource Guide
SMP Best Practices
If you’re interested in helping SMP decrease childhood hunger, let us know!
If you’re a program provider that would like to be included in a SMP Resource Guide,
fill out this form.Get the facts about how Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) will work this summer (2023), here.
Find FRAC’s summary of the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act here.
Learn about the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health here.
