Hello and Happy Summer! Please join us on *Friday, June 21, 2019 from 12:00 to 1:00 pm PDT* for a special webinar, *"Setting the Stage for Success: Leveraging Summer at Your Library to Promote Nutrition & Early Learning Among Families with Young Children in Low-Income Communities."* Summer at your library is a crucial time to help children develop the skills they need to be ready for kindergarten. Nutrition also plays a crucial role in school success for young children by supporting healthy brain and physical development and providing the needed foundation for life-long healthy habits. In many low-income communities, however, young children and their families may experience barriers to nutrition and learning opportunities. Libraries and their community partners play a key role in reducing those barriers by providing early learning opportunities, helping young children learn the importance of nutrition and physical activity and increasing access to healthy food through USDA summer meal programs. This webinar will help libraries identify ways to promote nutrition and increase access to healthy food while boosting early learning opportunities to ensure that all children have to start school healthy and ready to learn and on the path to success. This webinar is presented in cooperation with Tandem Early Learning , as our way of providing libraries focusing on early childhood and/or serving summer meals valuable tools to support the health and development of young children. The webinar will feature the *hot off the press* "Conversation Starters" developed by Tandem Early Learning--free to download from LunchAtTheLibrary.org <http://lunchatthelibrary.org/> -- for libraries serving summer meals help to engage caregivers and young children in conversations that jointly build crucial early learning skills while connecting families with the food experience and promoting nutrition. *This webinar is FREE, but registration is required. Please complete this form to let us know you will be participating.* Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBSXI3GYz65gE7kRKKBVSlnMTgtb2sN9nxNvKXKp3qyvVk0A/viewform Hope you can join us! Please let Patrice Chamberlain, Program Consultant, Lunch @ the Library for the California Library Association, know if you have any questions. She can be reached at pchamberlain@cla-net.org or 415.637.6815. This webinar is part of a series of workshops and webinars presented by the California Library Association, in partnership with the California State Library, as part of the Summer at Your Library: Explore, Learn, Read, Connect project, and the Summer at Your Library Quality Principles Initiative and the Outcomes and Outreach Initiative. Support for this webinar has also been provided by the California Department of Social Services through Public Health Institute with funding from USDA SNAP-Ed known in California as CalFresh. These institutions are equal opportunity providers and employers. CalFresh provides assistance to low-income households and can help buy nutritious food for better health. For CalFresh information, call 1-877-847-3663. -- Holly Macriss hmacriss@cla-net.org 916-834-4125