Direct Match Webinar 2024

Streamlining Free Meals: Best Practices for Direct Certification, Matching, and CEP Data Grouping

Providing free meals to students through Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) or Universal Meals is a winning strategy that boosts participation and ensures students receive nutritious meals. But to maximize reimbursement and claiming percentages, effective data matching and grouping methods are crucial. At the heart of these efforts is direct certification, which enables schools to automatically qualify students for free meals based on their participation in other government programs, such as SNAP or TANF.
 
Join us as we explore the ins and outs of direct certification, including:
  • Best practices for implementing and maintaining a successful direct certification system
  • Strategies for improving match rates and reducing errors
  • Tips for leveraging data to optimize direct certification

Ensure That No Child is Hungry

Achieve Direct Certification Rate of 0 % or Higher!

DirectMatch™ - Identify and Enroll Students in Free or Reduced Meals

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Our expert presenters will also delve into the world of direct certification, data matching, and grouping, sharing actionable strategies and real-world examples to help you optimize your universal meal program. With eScholar’s expertise in data linkage processes, you’ll gain the tools to enhance your methods and ensure your program’s long-term viability.

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DIRECT CERTIFICATION

Achieve a Direct Certification rate of 95% or higher with DirectMatch’s powerful matching engine and flexible matching options. Enabled users can accurately automatically match, manually match, and resolve potential near matches.

COMMUNITY ELIGIBILITY PROVISION

Users can access snapshot data for the selected location or district and take actions such as submitting CEP, renewing, creating groups, and recalculating ISP.

PROGRAMS MATCHED

eScholar can match to any source of data or program where there is a source file that can be indexed including SNAP, TANF, Medicaid, Foster, Migrant, and Homeless data.

AUTOMATIC REPORTING

Generate, customize, and submit required USDA reports all within eScholar DirectMatch. Authorized users can view the total number of identified and enrolled students, the district’s ISP and more.