Children feel, behave, and learn better if they have a wholesome snack between lunch and supper. During the school year, the Afterschool Snack Program provides free nutritious snacks to children who spend their afternoons in organized programs of after school care. The snack helps attract children into supervised activities, and the activities give them learning experiences and a safe place to play. DSS reimbursesAfterschool care providers for the snacks they serve. Qualifying is simple: A provider must offer regularly scheduled educational or enrichment activities in a supervised environment, be a public or private nonprofit organization or a for-profit organization and the program must be in a school area where at least half the children are eligible for free or reduced price meals. If your organization provides anAfterschool program or offers after school care for children 5-18, you may be eligible to receive a reimbursement from DSS for the snacks you serve. Furthermore, you will receive helpful information about how to serve healthy snacks to your students. There are more than 40 locations in South Carolina that are currently participating in the Afterschool Snack Program, and the list is growing rapidly each month. It is easy to participate and the reimbursement from DSS makes it possible for you to devote the money you currently spend at the grocery store to more and better enrichment activities for the kids. Participating in the Afterschool Snack Program is a great way to better feed the mouths and the minds of the youngsters in your program! Give us a call at (803) 898-0962 to find out more. We make it easy to qualify and keep recordkeeping to a minimum. In accordance with Federal law and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability. To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TTY). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.