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Compliance with Confidence: Sponsor Monitoring and Oversight

Efficient program monitoring and oversight are essential in the CACFP and for ensuring the success of your organization. Discover best practices and opportunities of how to conduct reviews that not only meet program requirements, but also support and lift up the child care provider. Expand your understanding of effective oversight and ensure program compliance with confidence. 

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CACFP Meal Pattern Jeopardy

Test your meal pattern knowledge by playing meal component Jeopardy! Explore meal patterns, calculate contributions, standardize recipes, and decipher grain equivalents in true Jeopardy style.

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Navigating Home Monitoring Situations

Ever faced an empty home or had the police show up unexpectedly during a monitoring visit? Do you know how to handle these situations? Test your skills in our interactive game and explore the unique challenges that monitors can face. Review the USDA monitoring regulations to enhance your skills to ensure seamless and successful visits.

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Artificial Intelligence for Child Nutrition

Have you heard about Artificial Intelligence, but are unsure where to begin or how it could be beneficial to your program? Discover the basics of large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, and how you can use them in your current role within child nutrition settings.

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Why CACFP Matters: Policy & Advocacy Priorities

The National CACFP Sponsors Association works to advocate on behalf of, and side-by-side with, CACFP operators. All of our policy and advocacy efforts revolve around the needs of our community. Hear how NCA is advocating for you and get updates on CACFP policy priorities.

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Advancing Farm to ECE: From Seed to Sprout

Research shows that as a child’s brain is forming, so are their food preferences. These preferences become habits as they grow and are formed based on their food exposure, experiences, and environments. Farm to Early Care & Education initiatives offer increased access to healthy, local foods, gardening opportunities and food-based activities to enhance the quality of the educational experience.

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Grown for Kids: Farm to Preschool Collaboration

Interactive activities help expand children’s worldview of the food they eat and drink. Discover an innovative collaboration between an early care and education center (ECE) in Connecticut and a working farm. This unique partnership provides children and their families with an insider’s view of the complex journey from farm to table.

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Feed the Soil: Let’s Compost!

Reports from the CDC reveal concerning statistics: each day 50% of children do not eat vegetables and 33% do not eat fruits. Surprisingly, the introduction of composting can have a positive impact on children’s willingness to try vegetables and fruits, as understanding their lifecycle encourages them to try new produce. Discover how a NY Head Start program incorporated composting to promote healthier eating.

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The Unconscious Mind: Implicit Bias

Research demonstrates that 90% of the time our decision-making occurs subconsciously, meaning our brain is forming perceptions and making decisions based on our beliefs and past experiences. Unless we make a conscious choice to explore our decision-making process, our conclusions often include biases and limit our ability to think outside the box, consider alternative solutions, work collaboratively with diverse populations, and treat people equitably.

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