Child & Adult Care Food Program – For-Profit Centers: Food and Nutrition Service


Abstract Head Start programs provide healthy meals and snacks to children through the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Health managers, program directors, and nutrition coordinators will want to consult this web site for information on regulations, reimbursement rates, income eligibility guidelines, and meal patterns. CACFP is administered at the state level by the state’s education or health department and at the federal level by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Child & Adult Care Food Program – For-Profit Centers: Food and Nutrition Service The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-265) now permits for-profit child care centers to participate in the CACFP when 25% of the centers enrollment or licensed capacity receive either Title XX or are eligible for free or reduced price meals. For-Profit Center Eligibility in the CACFP (07/1/04) Explains that the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act made permanent the provision that for-profit centers may participate in the CACFP is 25% of children (enrolled or licensed capacity) are eligible for free or reduced price meals. More>>

Child & Adult Care Food Program – For-Profit Centers: Food and Nutrition Service. USDA/FNS/CACFP. n.d. English. Web Site.