Office of Educational Services & Support

Applications for Free and Reduced Price Meals – Other Languages

The USDA process of translating the Free and Reduced Price School Meals Application package into 25 different languages has been finalized.  This has been done in an effort to facilitate program access and the communication between the Local Educational Agencies and the household.

The translated application package includes the letter to households, the free and reduced price school meals application, the notification of selection for verification of eligibility and the letter of verification results.  The translated application package also includes optional materials that may be provided to households, such as sharing information with Medicaid/SCHIP and sharing information with other programs.  These are the USDA prototypes, not the ones that SD uses; however, the required basic information is the same.  The USDA version also has a section for families to indicate their racial ethnic background and we rely on the Title I information that each school gathers for  that information.

The following translations are now available on the Child Nutrition Programs website: Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese (Mandarin), Farsi, French, Greek, Haitian, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Samoan, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese. 

The translations have been posted in Word and PDF format on the USDA  website at http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/FRP/frp.process.htm.