Nutrition Assistance
Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
What Is The Child And Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)?
- CACFP plays an important role in improving the nutritional quality of meals and snacks served to children.
- The program also provides meals and snacks to adults who receive care in nonresidential adult day care centers.
- CACFP reaches even further to provide financial reimbursement for meals served to children residing in emergency shelters, and snacks and suppers to youths participating in eligible afterschool care programs.
- It is a federally funded program operated nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and administered at the State level by the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE).
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Who Is Eligible For CACFP Meals?
- Children age 12 and under
- Migrant children age 15 and younger
- Functionally impaired adult participants or adults age 60 and older enrolled in an adult day care center
- Youths through age 18 in afterschool programs in needy areas
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What Type Of Facilities Participate In CACFP?
- Child Care Centers-licensed or approved public or private nonprofit child care centers, head start programs, and for-profit centers serve meals to large numbers of children.
- Family Day Care Homes-small groups of children ( 6 or less) receive nonresidential day care in approved private homes.
- Afterschool Care Programs-centers in low-income areas provide free snacks to school-age children and youth.
- Homeless Shelters-emergency shelters provide residential and food services to homeless children.
- Adult Day Care Centers-public, private non-profit, and some for-profit adult day care facilities provide structured, comprehensive services to functionally impaired nonresident adults.
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