<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=koi8-r">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
        {font-family:"Cambria Math";
        panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Calibri;
        panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium";
        panose-1:2 11 6 3 2 1 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";
        panose-1:2 11 5 3 2 1 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Verdana;
        panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:"Gill Sans MT";
        panose-1:2 11 5 2 2 1 4 2 2 3;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
        {margin:0in;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        font-size:11.0pt;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:#0563C1;
        text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:#954F72;
        text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
        {mso-style-type:personal-compose;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        color:windowtext;}
p.xmsonormal, li.xmsonormal, div.xmsonormal
        {mso-style-name:x_msonormal;
        margin:0in;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        font-size:11.0pt;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
.MsoChpDefault
        {mso-style-type:export-only;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
        {size:8.5in 11.0in;
        margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
        {page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1027" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="xmsonormal">Good Morning BFET, WF and ABAWD Teams! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">P-EBT – Application comes out June 28th – Please read below, see attached flyer and share broadly with students!
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif;color:black">Important Message(s)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Great News! Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) will be available soon in WA!  P-EBT is a new emergency program for ALL children in grades K-12, who
 receive free or reduced-price school meals. P-EBT is not subject to public charge and will not affect your immigration status. P-EBT provides families with funds to pay the cost of meals while schools are closed due to COVID-19. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">If your family receives Basic Food through DSHS and your children receive free or reduced-price school meals, you do not need to apply
 for P-EBT. You will automatically receive these one-time benefits on your EBT card. Check with your school district to find out if you need to apply for free or reduced-price school meals so your family can receive P-EBT funds.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">You will need to apply for P-EBT if your children are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals but <b><u>do not</u></b> receive
 Basic Food benefits. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">For more information and/or to submit the P-EBT application (which will be available on June 28) please use this link:
</span><a href="https://www.washingtonconnection.org/home/">https://www.washingtonconnection.org/home/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> Hope all is well and you are staying healthy and safe! <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter" />
<v:formulas>
<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0" />
<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0" />
<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1" />
<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2" />
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth" />
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight" />
<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1" />
<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2" />
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth" />
<v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0" />
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight" />
<v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0" />
</v:formulas>
<v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" />
<o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t" />
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Compass" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:45pt;height:84.3pt;z-index:251659264;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page'>
<v:imagedata src="cid:image001.jpg@01D64A04.E97DAAE0" o:title="Compass" />
<w:wrap type="square"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width="60" height="113" style="width:.625in;height:1.1736in" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D64A05.66BBBD80" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Compass" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#002060">Jennifer
 Dellinger<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#003764">Program Administrator</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#1F497D">Email:
<a href="mailto:jdellinger@sbctc.edu"><span style="color:blue">jdellinger@sbctc.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003561">
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">• Office: 360.704.3925
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Electronic Privacy Notice:  This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is
 also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply
 to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>