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American Celiac Disease Alliance

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Lisa
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 19:07:39 +0000

A major goal of the American Celiac Disease Alliance (ACDA) is to improve the availability and access to gluten-free meals in schools for students with celiac disease. Recently, the ACDA was approached to work on a collaborative project which will help move us closer to achieving that goal. One of the first steps of the project is to determine the level of interest for gluten-free school lunches.

The ACDA has launched a brief online survey to find out who is providing lunch for student's with celiac disease - parents, school, or a combination.

If you have a child with celiac disease attending school, please complete the survey by going to www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=83OFWWSzHfAtSoh9vRH8Pg_3d_3d

Your input is vitally important to demonstrate that our children want and need gluten-free meals at school. The survey will close on July 2, 2008.

If you have any questions about the survey, or issues regarding the accessibility of gluten-free foods in school, please contact the ACDA at info@americanceliac.org.

Thank you for helping us help our kids!

Andrea

Andrea Levario

Executive Director

American Celiac Disease Alliance

www.americanceliac.org

Deborah J. Ceizler

13251 Ventura Blvd. Suite 1

Studio City, CA 91604-1838

Ph 818.990.2354 Fax 818.990.2379

www.celiac.org

How wonderful this COULD this be!

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cruelshoes Enthusiast
cruelshoes
Posted

I just filled it out. Thanks for posting. Buying a safe gluten-free lunch has been one of the hilights of my son's school year this year. :)

slmprofesseur Apprentice
slmprofesseur
Posted

I will be filling one out also. I just went a few rounds with the day care director over opting out of the food program at my son's daycare.

Darn210 Enthusiast
Darn210
Posted

Okey Dokey . . . I've been surveyed.

Thanks for the heads up, Lisa.

  • 3 weeks later...
cruelshoes Enthusiast
cruelshoes
Posted

An update posted on the delphi forum today:

So far the ACDA has received just shy of 1800 school lunch surveys. We have a major meeting later this week with a group of folks who are interested in getting a gluten-free lunch program launched for the upcoming school year.

We would really like to reach 2000 surveys by the end of this week. Thanks in large part to your efforts, we

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