The BreakfastFirst Campaign is a three-year initiative, launched in 2010, to strengthen school breakfast programs across California by improving access, participation, and nutritional quality.
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More BreakfastFirst Resources
The BreakfastFirst website offers best practices, data, and other tools developed to help guide the implementation of effective school breakfast models. Visit the site here.
The BreakfastFirst Campaign: Updates & News
For all news, updates, and resources from the BreakfastFirst Campaign, visit www.BreakfastFirst.org.
Breakfast at the Best Time and Place
The federal School Breakfast Program provides a rare trifecta of benefits: it fosters academic achievement, routes federal funds to public school districts, and supports student health, including healthy body weight. Read more here…
Breakfast in the Classroom On the Air
4.13.2012 Tomorrow night, Saturday, April 14 at 8pm, the Food Network in partnership with the Share Our Strength No Kid Hungry campaign will premiere Hunger Hits Home, Read more here…
CFPA Applauds Major Nutrition Initiative at LAUSD
3.29.2012 At Figueroa Elementary School, Los Angeles Unified School District leaders announce an ambitious plan to serve breakfast in the classrooms of 675 LAUSD schools Read more here…
Breakfast in the Classroom is coming to LAUSD
1.5.2012 CFPA is happy to announce that LAUSD will be piloting some Breakfast in the Classroom programs in 2012. Read more here…
Coming Soon - Classroom Breakfast Webinar
11.23.11 Please join the BreakfastFirst Campaign and Action for Healthy Kids for the second in a series of five interactive webinars
designed to Read more here…Schools Bring Breakfast into the Classroom
10.28.2011 We know that when the school breakfast meal is brought from the cafeteria early in the morning to the classroom at the beginning of the school day, participation increases dramatically, ensuring students start the day ready to learn. Read more here…Coming Soon - New School Breakfast Webinar Series
10.18.2011 Please join Action for Healthy Kids and the BreakfastFirst Campaign for a series of five interactive webinars designed to showcase the health, fiscal, and academic benefits of effective school breakfast programs. Read more here…
State Superintendent Champions School Breakfast
9.22.2011 State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has just released a letter expressing his support as the new honorary chair of the BreakfastFirst Campaign. Read more here…
BreakfastFirst Webinar Materials
5.21.2011 Materials for the six-webinar series on building and sustaining effective school breakfast programs are now available on the BreakfastFirst Campaign website link
School Breakfast Data by District
District-specific school breakfast participation data for 2009-10 PDF
Join the BreakfastFirst Webinar Series
1.27.2011 Register now for this webinar series on building and sustaining robust school breakfast programs. Bi-weekly webinars will be held Wednesdays (2/16-4/27) from 1:30-2:30 pm PST. Read more here…
Classroom Breakfast in Compton Unified
11.27.2010 Compton Unified School District has successfully implemented Classroom Breakfast programs at several elementary schools. Read more here…
Classroom Breakfast Counts Toward Instructional Minutes
7.1.10 State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and State Controller John Chiang released a joint letter Read more here…