Parent Information
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As a parent, you want the best for your children. If you work outside the home, then the care your child receives while you are away is of utmost importance. Studies show that child care providers that participate on the Child and Adult Care Food Program offer higher quality care. Therefore, always ask “do you offer CACFP services” when choosing a child care provider.
We help child care providers offer nutritious meals to your child by providing funding and technical assistance.
What can you expect when enrolling your child in a childcare facility participating on the CACFP?
You will need to complete an enrollment form that indicates your child’s name, age, and normal days and hours of care. In addition, you will indicate which meals your child will be normally be present for. You must sign and date the form.
You may be asked to complete an additional form, referred to as an income eligibility form. It is important for you to know that you are not required to complete this form, however, if your income is below the guidelines and/or you receive benefits such as SNAP, your completion of the form will help your child care provider receive higher benefit payments from the food program.
Click on the enrollment form above, complete and then push submit so that your child care center can be reimbursed for your child’s meals. If your child is enrolled in a child care home, our providers have a form for you to sign.
Your child will receive meals that meet the USDA meal pattern requirements:
• A breakfast consists of milk, a fruit or vegetable, and a serving of a grain such as toast, waffles or cereal. A childcare provider may also serve a protein such as eggs three times a week in lieu of a grain. Sweet grain products such as toaster pastries are not allowable.
• For a lunch or supper, your child will receive milk, a protein, two servings of a vegetable or a fruit and a vegetable, and a grain product such as rolls, bread, or pasta.
• At snack time, children receive at least two of the five components in the meal pattern: milk, protein, grains, fruit and vegetable.
Providers must serve at least one whole grain rich product per day yet are encouraged to serve whole grains more frequently. Cookies, cakes and pastries are considered desserts and do not meet the meal pattern requirements.
Childcare facilities participating on the food program will serve more fruits and vegetables, fewer sugary items, low fat unflavored milk (whole milk up to two years of age) and fewer processed foods.
