Funding to Feed Children

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Funding to Feed Children

• An Initiative to Increase CACFP Participation in
  New York City

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NYC CACFP Participation Rates

• Regulated Child Care Home Providers
• 6468 licensed and registered
• 3912 active
• 50 CACFP Sponsors (range 10-500 providers)
• Legally Exempt
• 25,500 caring for subsidized children
• 325 active
• 2 CACFP Sponsors

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NYC Outreach

• Multi-pronged Approach
• Convened Workgroup
• Identified Need
• Conducted Survey of Sponsors
• Hosted Meeting with Potential Sponsors
• Developed Outreach Materials
• Plans for Future

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Convened Workgroup

• Members Include
• NYS CACFP
• NYC Administration for Children Services
• NYC Office of the Mayor, Food Policy Coordinator
• NY Immigrant Coalition
• CACFP Home Sponsors

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Identified Unmet Need

• Unmet Need Determined by
• Maps of served and unserved providers by borough
• Regulated providers
• Zip Code and neighborhoods
• List of providers by name/address
• Linguistic Isolation

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Linguistic Isolation Rate

• Census Bureau Definition
• Households in which
• No person over 14 years speaks only English
• Those who speak another language do not speak
  English very well
• Not very well means has difficulty with English

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Why Focus on Languages

• 2/3 of NYC population is foreign-born or children
  of foreign-born parents
• Over 150 ethnicities in Queens
• There are six major languages spoken in NYC,
  other than English
• Arabic, Chinese, Creole, Korean, Russian, Spanish
• Bengali

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Survey of Sponsors

• Identify Sponsor Resources and Interest
• Languages available
• Language assistance needed
• Willingness to expand and serve
• immigrant populations
• legally exempt
• regulated providers

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Survey Results

• Growth Potential for Regulated Providers
• 38 Yes, some limited to network
• 9 No
• 5 No response
• Immigrant Outreach
• 35 Yes, some limited to network
• 6 No
• 11 No response
• Legally Exempt Providers
• 37 Yes, some limited to network
• 10 No
• 5 No response

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Sponsor Needs

• Reduce paperwork
• More funding
• Training on recruiting providers
• Translation assistance and resources
• CACFP materials in other languages
• 23 languages identified

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What Can CACFP Do?

• Translate materials and forms
• Provide training
• Recruit new sponsors
• Connect sponsors to organizations serving
  immigrant populations

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Identify New Sponsors

• Sponsors of multiple centers
• 21 identified
• Invited to 2 hour meeting in Mayors Office
• 10 attended
• Supplied maps and lists of providers
• Briefly explained responsibilities
• Invited applications
• Results
• 1 new
• 1 pending

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Outreach Materials

• Created Variety of Outreach Flyers
• Tailor by
• Borough
• Zip Code or neighborhood
• Languages served
• On our website
• Can be specific to Sponsor

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Next Steps

• Meeting of Sponsors and Immigrant Service
  Organizations
• Confirm language potential and needs of Sponsors
• Supply needed translations
• Replicate in rest of NYS

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For More Information

• NYS Dept. of Health - CACFP
• Voice 518-402-7104
• Email sjr02_at_health.state.ny.us
• Website http//www.health.state.ny.us/prevention/
  nutrition/
• NYS Office for Children and Family Services
• Regulated Child Care Website http//www.ocfs.stat
  e.ny.us/main/becs
• Informal Care Website
• http//www.pdp.albany.edu/ocfs/exempt.htm

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