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trade or trades they want to pursue, and to create and follow through with a plan to successfully compete in the application process, get in, and begin working. Subsidized: - Fresh Success' subrecipient, Chef Ann Foundation, provides a combination of asynchronous online coursework, live virtual learning sessions, and paid, on-the-job work experience. Chef Ann Foundation’s SWBL is offered through our Healthy School Food Pathway (HSFP) State and Federally Registered Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship programs. Case Management Services will be available to participants upon enrollment and throughout their program, ensuring HSFP is a good fit for the participant’s employment goals and to provide them with support throughout the program to address any barriers they may face and connect participants to support services they may be eligible for. Supporting workforce readiness and professional growth for incumbent workers (who may be underemployed) and new recruits (community college students, new Americans, single parents, and displaced or interested food service workers), the HSFP pipeline offers individuals resources, coursework, hands-on training within K-12 schools, and a network to become confident leaders and social influencers of health. The program supports those seeking entry-level positions through management and school food leadership. Our mission is to ensure that school food professionals have the resources, funding and support they need to provide fresh, healthy, delicious, cook- from-scratch meals that support the health of children and our planet. In doing so, we have heard time and time again that schools cannot make the changes they would like to due to the high number of job vacancies in school food. A report summarizing ‘Findings from the California School Nutrition Services Department Vacancy and Turnover Rates Survey’ conducted in partnership by California School Nutrition Association, Food Insight Group, and Chef Ann Foundation found a 12% combined vacancy rate of responding School Food Authorities, at the end of the 2022–23 school year. This rate is considerably higher than nationwide food accommodation and service industry, state and local education industry, and California statewide industry rates. The Healthy School Food Pathway programs do not displace or replace existing employment of individuals who choose not to participate in the program, and instead aim to elevate the career pathway with increased culinary skill sets that link to increased wages, benefits, and opportunity for growth; providing long-term solutions for school food professionals and district leaders. Individuals in both the Pre-Apprenticeship and Apprenticeship are paid through CAF’s employer of record, the Foundation for California Community Colleges’ Career Catalyst employer of record service. Therefore, each host district signs a worksite agreement that is between them, CAF and the Foundation for California Community Colleges. The agreement outlines what each party is responsible for, including adherence to proper working conditions for participants. Is this component subsidized by SNAP E&T? Subsidized Unsubsidized Both subsidized and unsubsidized 1/28/26, 11:04 AM State Plan CA FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-cafy26stateplan//index.html 117/286