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Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Nutrition Standards for CACFP Meals and Snacks

Guidance, resources, best practices, and training for CACFP operators to support them in providing healthy, balanced meals and snacks to the children and adults they serve.

09/21/2023
Resource | Forms Meal Benefit Income Eligibility Form

Instructions for Child and Adult Care Food Program Centers, Sponsoring Organizations and Family Day Care Home Providers

10/04/2022
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Breastfed Babies Welcome Here! A Mother’s Guide

The Breastfed Babies Welcome Here! resource contains communication tools CACFP operators can use to let mothers and families know that breastfed babies are welcome at their child care site. 

08/03/2022
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance ¡Los bebés lactados son bienvenidos aquí! una guía para madres

¡Bebés lactados son bienvenidos aquí! El recurso contiene herramientas de comunicación que los operadores de CACFP pueden usar para que las madres y las familias sepan que los bebés lactados son bienvenidos en su sitio de cuidado infantil. Incluye una guía para madres, un póster y un mensaje gráfico.

08/03/2022
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0173 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Area Eligibility for Closed Enrolled Sites in the SFSP and the NSLP Seamless Summer Option – Extension 2

Under this waiver, for all states, Summer Food Service Program and National School Lunch Program Seamless Summer Option closed enrolled sites during the COVID-19 public health emergency may determine site eligibility through area eligibility without collecting income eligibility applications.

COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #64
10/09/2020
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Feeding Infants in the Child and Adult Care Food Program

This is a training tool for CACFP operators with infants discussing the infant meal pattern, developmental readiness, hunger and fullness signs, handling breastmilk and infant formula, solid foods, what is creditable, and more.

FNS-786
10/27/2019
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2014-0001 Guidance on Income Eligibility Determinations and Duration

This memorandum provides guidance and clarification regarding individual income eligibility determinations and durations in the CACFP and the SFSP.

CACFP07 SFSP12-2014
01/16/2014
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2013-0086 Effective Date of Free or Reduced Price Meal Eligibility Determinations

This memorandum clarifies the flexibility available to local educational agency officials for establishing the effective date of eligibility for children certified for free or reduced price meals in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs and free milk in the Special Milk Program based on household applications.

SP11 CACFP06 SFSP11-2014
12/03/2013
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2013-0012 Eligibility Based on Census Data: 2013 Data Release

This memorandum has been superseded by SP10 CACFP04 SFSP03-2015: Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs.

CACFP06 SFSP11-2013
02/21/2013
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2012-0044 Participant Eligibility in the Adult Day Care Component of the CACFP

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide updated guidance relating to the adult day care component of the CACFP.

CACFP20-2012
08/07/2012
Page updated: October 14, 2021