Child & Adult Care Food Program

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a federally funded program sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides financial reimbursements to licensed child care providers for serving nutritious meals and snacks to children in their care. The Food Program is a major key to good children's nutrition, makes child care more affordable to low income parents, significantly improves the after-tax income of providers, assists in preparing children to enter school ready to learn, and helps working families work.

Why should I be on a food program?

There are many reasons for providers to join a food program click here for more information.

Child Care Choices makes it easy for you to participate on the food program by offering you:

• An awesome Nutrition Education Kit to get you started

• Valuable in-home Nutrition Education packets to assist you in teaching children about a variety of nutrition, health and safety topics. (link here to further information)

• A variety of menu planning options to make meal planning more personalized

• Free Minute Menu Kids software to assist you in planning menus, recording meals served, and tracking income and expenses in your child care business.

• Knowledgeable, Friendly, & Professional Staff who are available by phone to answer any questions you may have.

• Direct deposit of your monthly food program reimbursement dollars Monthly newsletters with updates, recipes, activities for children, nutrition information and much more.

We are dedicated to providing you with the resources you need as well as individualized attention to make sure your unique needs are met.

Child Care Choices Appeals Process

Already on a food program?

We are so glad that you've chosen to participate on the Child & Adult Care Food Program, serving approximately 900,000 children each day in the United States.  If we can ever do anything to assist you please feel free to contact us.