Tuesday, March 3, 2015

National CACFP Week

March 15-21, 2015 is National Child and Adult Care Food Program week. The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a program through the USDA to offer reimbursement to child care providers for serving nutritious meals to children. Each day 3.3 million children across the United States are served meals that are part of the CACFP program.


National CACFP week is an excellent time to learn more about the program and sign on or promote the great work you, as a provider are already offering through the program. You may consider planning to try a new recipe that week to talk about the different components of the program, offer some nutrition lesson plans to the children, cook with the kids, or take the opportunity to share with your parents what the program offers to you and what it allows you to offer to the children.

If you are not already on the program and you are a license child care provider or have met the CCDF standards you might take the opportunity to look into signing onto the program. Child Care Answers sponsors providers in the Central Indiana region. If you are interested you can email Emily at emilyb@childcareanswers.com.





1 comment:

Unknown said...

Great article and thank you for making me aware of this program. My wife is actually a licensed child care provider but in Utah, which may not qualify her for the program. We will do research in the area and see if a similar program exists as she is new to this. Initiatives like the one put forth by this article are great motivators for child care givers, keep up the good work.

Eric | http://www.twelvecornersdaycare.com/about_us.html