providers in 2021, and we will launch our fourth kit for child care centers in 2023. Although we do not currently offer either of the summer meals kits for distribution, you can find the English and Spanish educational pieces for download from TheICN.org/FoodSafety at no cost. • Summer Meals Food Safety Training Guide/ Guía de entrenamiento sobre alimentaria seguridad de las comidas en verano • Food Safety Tips Poster/ Sugerencias de seguridad alimentaria cartel • How to Properly Use Disposable Gloves Poster/ Utilice correctamente los guantes desechables • How to Properly Wash Your Hands Poster/ Como lavarse las manos correctamente We also adapted the Summer Meals Food Safety Training Guide into three short, self-paced online courses. These courses are available on ICN’s free online course system, iLearn.
ICN is continually developing new resources for our audience, so keep an eye on our social media to see what we have coming next. Go to TheICN.org/FoodSafety where you will find the materials Liz mentioned and other food safety resources available for download at NO COST!
Food Allergy Fact Sheets
Liz is an Education and Training Specialist III who joined the Institute of Child Nutrition in 2013. Primarily, she designs food safety resources for schools, CACFP, and SFSP. Liz is passionate about providing food safety awareness and resources for adult and child nutrition professionals, with 17 years of experience in the food and health industry. She has a master’s in Food, Nutrition, and Culinary Sciences from Clemson University and a bachelor’s in Nutrition and Food Science from Auburn University. She also has certificates in Designing Learning, Micro-learning, and Writing for Instructional Design and Training from ATD Education. Liz is an ACE-certified Health Coach and Personal Trainer, AFAA-Certified Group Fitness Instructor, and certified Zumba Instructor. In her spare time, Liz enjoys teaching fitness classes, fostering dogs for animal rescues, and hiking with her two dogs. Education and Training Specialist III Liz Dixon, MS
Best Practices in SFSP • Cleaning and Sanitizing • Personal Hygiene • Time and Temperature Control
Food Allergy and Summer Meals F R E E RESOURCES
Summer Feeding Food Safety Training Guide
One of my favorite things I tell people about the Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN) is that I love that I don’t have to try to sell them anything because all our resources are free, with no fine print or asterisks. It’s a benefit of being federally funded by USDA that we can provide truly free education and training resources for all the U.S. states and territories. It’s been over nine years since I joined ICN as an Education and Training Specialist. I have had my hands on almost all the food safety resources currently on our website, about 300 resources. I both groan and do a happy dance when the Food Code is updated, new research is released, or a law is changed that will affect food safety. Although it means I have to update a lot of resources, it also means I have an opportunity to apply new instructional styles that I have learned. I recently took a certification course on micro-learning. In May 2022, ICN is releasing a series of micro-trainings on food allergies called Food Safety Spotlight: Food Allergies. School nutrition directors and managers can use any of the short, 15-minute training sessions to train their staff on different food allergy topics.
The addition of sesame as a major allergen due to the 2021 Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education and Research (FASTER) Act allowed me to expand our current food allergy resources. Previously our food allergy fact sheets were written mainly for schools. With this last update, ICN created individual fact sheet sets for both schools and Child and Adult Care Food Programs (CACFP).
Watch this short video to see what’s included in our FREE Summer Meals Mini-Kit resource!
• Adult Day Care Food Allergy Fact Sheets • Child Care Center Food Allergy Fact Sheets • Family Child Care Food Allergy Fact Sheets • Food Allergy Fact Sheets (for schools)
https://vimeo.com/manage/ videos/706585754
One of my favorite projects I have worked on is ICN’s food safety kits , for which the research started back in 2015. I worked with one of our partners, the Center for Food Safety Research in Child Nutrition Programs at Kansas State University, to create the Summer Meals Food Safety Kit . These kits were for nontraditional summer meal sites (those that only operate during the summer) and launched in 2017. I then conducted surveys to help develop kits for three additional audiences we serve. We sent out kits for traditional Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) sites during 2018–2019, launched the kit for family child care
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