1. Child & Adult Care Food Program

2. Counties We Serve Buena Vista Clay Dickinson Emmet O’Brien Osceola
Palo Alto
Pocahontas

3. Child & Adult Care Food Program
USDA program
Iowa Department of Education
Sponsoring agency must be a public or private non-profit agency

4. Goal of CACFP
Improve the diets of children by providing nutritious meals.
Help children develop good eating habits that will last through the years

5. CACFP
Provides meal reimbursement to child care centers, adult day care centers, emergency shelters and child development homes for serving nutritious meals/snacks.

6. CACFP Provider Requirements
Registered with DHS
Maintain Daily Menus, Meal Attendance and Daily Attendance Information
Attend 2 hrs of training each FY
Receive 3 in home reviews from CACFP staff

7. Breakfast Creditable Meals Milk Fruit, Vegetable or 100% Juice
Bread or Bread Alternate

8. Snack Creditable Meals Serve 2 of 4 Milk A fruit, vegetable or juice
A bread or bread alternate
A meat or meat alternate

9. Creditable Meals Lunch or Supper Milk Meat or Meat Alternate
Bread or Bread Alternate
Combination of 2 fruits or vegetables

10. Reimbursement Rates Meal Tier 1 Tier 2 Breakfast $1.28 $0.47
Lunch/Supper $2.40 $1.45
Snacks $0.71 $0.19

11. Monthly Average Reimbursement
Tier 1 Rate
Bkfst, Lunch, Snack = $4.39 X 8 Children X 22 days per month
= $773 per month
Tier 2 Rate
Bkfst, Lunch & Snack = $2.11 X 8 Children X 22 days per month
= $371 per month or $4,452 per year

12. FY 12 Reimbursement TOTALS $349,412.21 98 Providers
Buena Vista $48, Providers
Clay $82, Providers
Dickinson $29, Providers
Emmet $49, Providers
O’Brien $70, Providers
Osceola $11, Providers
Palo Alto $43, Providers
Pocahontas $12, Providers
TOTALS $349, Providers

13. What meals can be reimbursed?
Reimbursed for 2 meals and 1 snack or 2 snacks and 1 meal or 3 snacks.
Meals must contain creditable foods.
Children are eligible until they reach the age of 13, migrant workers’ children through 15 yrs and disabled persons with documented disability.

14. Program Integrity A minimum of 2 unannounced reviews
Monitor all meal types which includes breakfast through suppers
Yearly enrollment forms completed and signed by parents
Yearly household contacts through parent audits

15. Seriously Deficient
If a provider is declared seriously deficient must offer a corrective action plan
Provider can request an appeal with the DOE
If a provider is terminated for cause, placed on the National Disqualified List for seven years or until the state agency reinstates them to the program.

16. Thank You!
Contact Information
Kim Hohensee
CACFP Home Monitor
ext. 113
Julie Schmitt
ext. 135