Child and Adult Care Food Program Aligning Dietary Guidance for All (2011) / Chapter Skim
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2 The Child and Adult Care Food Program
2 The Child and Adult Care Food Program
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Department of Agriculture (USDA) food programs that specifically target vulnerable populations.
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General aspects of the current CACFP Meal Requirements are shown in Table 2-1. PROGRAM SETTINGS CACFP is administered in three major types of day care settings, whether for children or adults: family or group homes, centers, and independent centers.
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. Day Care Centers for Children and Adults Child Day Care Public or private nonprofit child care centers, outside school hours care centers, Head Start programs, and other institutions that are licensed or approved to provide day care services are eligible to participate in CACFP, either independently or as sponsored centers.
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are private and must be sponsored by an organization that assumes responsibility for ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations and that acts as a conduit for meal reimbursements to family day care providers. Both family and group day care homes must meet state licensing requirements, where these are imposed, or be approved by a federal, state, or local agency.
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Participants must meet the following criteria: • Children ages 12 years and under, or ages 15 years and under who are children of migrant workers; • For emergency shelters, persons ages 18 years and under; • For at-risk afterschool care centers, persons ages 18 years and un der at the start of the school year; • Persons of any age who have one or more disabilities, as deter mined by the state, and who are enrolled in an institution or child care facility serving a majority of persons who are ages 18 years and under; • Provider's own children only in a specific low-income situation called tier I day care homes (see description in the section "Meal Reimburse ments") and only when other nonresidential children are enrolled in the day care home and are participating in the meal service; and • Adult participants who are functionally impaired or 60 years of age or older and who remain in the community (USDA/FNS, 2010b)
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95-627: made CCFP permanent 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981: amended CCFP reimbursement requirements, reduced reimbursement rates, limited reimbursement, and lowered the maximum age of eligibility through 12 years 1987 Older Americans Act of 1987: authorized participation of eligible adult day care centers 1988 Hunger Prevention Act of 1988: allowed for a fourth meal for children in care 8 hours or more per day in child care centers and outside school hours centers only 1989 Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989: changed the name of the program to the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) , funded the expansion of family day care homes into low-income or rural areas, permitted snacks for schools participating in CACFP 1994 Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans Act of 1994: extended eligibility for free meals for children participating in Head Start 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996: replaced the single reimbursement rate with a two-tier structure (two reimbursement rates that consider the provider's economic situation)
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authorization for the adult care component following the enactment of the Older Americans Act of 1987, which resulted in the renaming of the program to the Child and Adult Care Food Program. CACFP has expanded greatly since its inception as a pilot program (USDA/FNS, 2010d)
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cDependent on state and local rules for adult day care.
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Meal Pattern Descriptions Meal patterns for infants differ markedly from those for children and adults, as shown below. Infants The current infant lunch/supper meal patterns appear in Table 2-4.
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Notably, only adult day care centers currently have the option to use the offer versus serve form of food service. In this form of service, participants may refuse to take one or more of the meal components offered to them.
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Changes to the regulations for CACFP governing the required meal components in the meal patterns were established by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L.
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TABLE 2-6 Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Reimbursement Rates per Meal by Meal Type for Adult and Child Day Care Centers, Homes, and Sponsoring Organizations of Day Care Homes, July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2011 Contiguous States Alaska Hawaii Whole or Fractions of U.S.
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104-193) refocused the family child care component of CACFP on low-income children by establishing a two-tier system of reimbursement rates for family child care homes.
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These programs provide a safety net for low-income individuals and specific groups that may be vulnerable to social and environmental factors that place them at increased nutritional risk. Of special note, children who consume meals offered through CACFP may also consume food provided through other established nutrition programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children or through the School Breakfast Program (SBP)
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child population ages 0–6 years are cared for in center-based programs that include child care centers,
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. As discussed in Chapter 1, family day care homes and traditional child care centers comprise the majority of CACFP providers (more than 93 percent)
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SUMMARY To contribute to the health of persons in day care, the Child and Adult Care Food Program subsidizes the cost of nutritious meals and snacks to participating independent day care centers and, through sponsoring organizations, to other centers and day care homes. More than 3 million children and adults are served through CACFP yearly.
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2010e. Child and Adult Care Food Program: National Average Payment Rates, Day Care Home Food Service Payment Rates, and Administrative Reimbursement Rates for Sponsoring Organizations of Day Care Homes for the Period July 1, 2010 Through June 30, 2011.
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2010g. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program.
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