Emergency Shelters

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Emergency Shelters

• Child and Adult Care Food Program

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How do Emergency shelters participate in CACFP?

• Must meet the definition of an emergency shelter
  contained in the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless
  Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.11351)
• A facility all or a part of which is designed to
  be used to provide temporary housing

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State Agency Staff

• Shodie Akin, Program Specialist Ann-Marie Martin,
  Program Specialist
• Child Nutrition Services Child and Adult Care
  Food Program
• 907-465-4788 907-465-8711
• Shodie.Akin_at_Alaska.gov AnnMarie.Martin_at_Alaska.gov
  
• Tonia Haggard, Ed. Prog. Assistant Jo Dawson,
  Project Coordinator
• CACFP Commodity Food Distribution
• 907-465-4969 907-465-8710
• Tonia.Haggard_at_Alaska.gov Jo.Dawson_at_Alaska.gov

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How do Emergency Shelters participate in CACFP?

• Must comply with applicable State, local health
  and safety codes. It does not have to be licensed
  for daycare.
• Must be a public or private nonprofit
  organization
• Must serve meals that meet USDAs nutritional
  standards
• Claim reimbursement only for meals served to
  eligible residential children

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Definitions

• Under the McKinney Vento Act
• A child is homeless if he/she does not
  have a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime
  residence

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Who is eligible for CACFP meals and snacks?

• Children with disabilities, regardless of their
  age, may also receive CACFP meals and snacks at
  the emergency shelters where they reside.
• Age Limitations for Children Receiving Meals in
  Emergency Shelters- Interim Rule (published
  January 3, 2006)
• Extends the eligibility for participation to
  shelters that primarily serve children through
  age 18 who are homeless and seeking shelter
  without their families

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Eligibility

• Residential Children who receive their meals at
  the shelter are automatically eligible for free
  meals and snacks.
• There are no application forms for parents or
  guardians to fill out.

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How does a shelter certify that a child is
eligible for free meals and snacks?

• The shelter must certify that each child served
  is a resident of an emergency shelter. The
  easiest way to document a childs eligibility may
  be for the shelter director to maintain a list of
  eligible children that includes each childs
  name, date of birth, and period of residency.
• Alternate methods of certification are acceptable

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At-risk Afterschool Programs

• A shelter may be approved to serve CACFP snacks,
  if it provides organized activities to
  school-aged children through a structured
  afterschool care program.
• The shelter would be able to serve reimbursable
  snacks to all children enrolled in the
  afterschool care program, through age 18.

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At-risk Afterschool Programs

• If a residential child participates in an at-risk
  afterschool program and eats three meals at the
  shelter
• Remember
• Only 3 meals or 2 meals and one snack may be
  claimed each day. The shelter needs to maintain
  documentation showing that only 3 meals or 2
  meals and one snack is being claimed for each
  residential child.

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Reimbursement Rates

• Breakfast 2.15
• Lunch/Supper 4.01
• Snack 1.10
• Cash-in-lieu 0.1875
• Emergency Shelters may
• receive Commodities through CACFP and Commodities
  through TEFAP, or
• receive CIL and Commodities through TEFAP
• Rates are adjusted by USDA every July

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Commodities

• Emergency shelters may be eligible to receive
  USDA Commodities to help supplement their food
  budget or distribute TEFAP foods.
• Bulk products available through USDA based on
  average daily attendance
• Centers may select commodities and place order
  February each year
• Products are delivered in fall
• Recommended for centers with an ADA of 50
• For more information, please contact
• Jo Dawson
• 907-465- 8710
• Jo.Dawson_at_Alaska.gov

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Renewal

• Shelters renew every 3 years
• Coincide with Administrative Review
• Updates Renewals late as of October 1
• Seriously Deficient

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Renewal (every 3 years)

• All Centers need to submit to the state agency by
  October 1st
• Sponsor Renewal Sheet (includes mgmt. plan)
• Site Sheet
• Certification Statement
• CACFP User Authorization

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Update (2 years between renewal)

• All Centers need to submit to the state agency by
  October 1st
• Sponsor Update Sheet
• Site Sheet
• Approval to Continue
• CACFP User Authorization

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What if you miss the deadline?

• CNS has 30 days to approve a completed Update or
  Renewal packet from Center
• The October claim will not be paid until the
  Renewal/Update is approved

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Review Processes
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Site Review (self-monitoring)

• Form updated, available on web
• WIC Requirement
• Enrollment form requirement

Update http//www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/cns/CACFP2.
html
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To access forms click Child and Adult Care Food
Program
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Site Review (self-monitoring)

• Site Reviews must be completed 3 times per year
  most sites
• After school care and At-Risk, After school snack
  must be completed 6 times per year
• Cannot have 6 months between site reviews

7CFR 226.16(d)(4)
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Site Review (self-monitoring)

• Director or Site Supervisor must conduct reviews.
• Must be a procedure in place to follow-up on any
  areas of non-compliance.
• Conduct during meal service. Variety of meal
  service be reviewed over the course of a year.

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• Administrative Review
• (by state or federal agency)

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Core Review Elements

• Annual enrollment forms
• Instructions, guidance and handbooks
• Observation of meal service
• Program, civil rights requirements

7 CFR 226.6(m)(3)
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Core Review Elements

• Recordkeeping
• Meal counts
• Cycle Menus/Production Records
• Administrative costs/non-profit meal service
• Licensing and approval

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Follow-up Reviews

• If found Seriously Deficient, the state agency
  may perform follow-up review
• Unannounced
• Target corrective action issued, but may be more
  comprehensive

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• CACFP Training

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CACFP Training by CNS

• Annual attendance is required
• Offered through distance delivery
• May be found Seriously Deficient for
  non-attendance

USDA Policy Memo 04-03
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CACFP Training by center staff

• Annual training must be conducted on-site
• Records of training must include
• Attendee names
• Agenda
• Date of training
• Location of training

7 CFR 226.16(d)(2)(3)
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CACFP Training

• All CNS CACFP training presentations available
  on-line for center use at
• http//www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/cns/CACFP3.html

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CACFP Training

• Annual attendance at the State Agency training is
  required
• Offered through distance delivery
• May be found Seriously Deficient for
  non-attendance

USDA Policy Memo 04-03
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CACFP Training

• Annual training must be conducted on-site
• Records of training must include
• Attendee names
• Agenda
• Date of training
• Location of training
• CNS training PowerPoint available at
• http//www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/cns/CACFP3.html

7 CFR 226.15( 3)(12) 7 CFR 226.16(d)(2)
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Claim for Reimbursement

• Due in to the state agency within 60 days of the
  claim month
• Additional 30 days for upward amendment
• Must be signed by authorized signature
• Requires ADA

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Creditable Meals

• Exceptions to a reimbursable meal may be made for
• Allergy (needs signed medical statement)
• Religious Beliefs (needs signed waiver by
  religious leader)
• Exceptions not provided for family preference
  (i.e. vegetarian)

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Meal Counts

• Attendance versus Meal Count
• Separate logs
• Meal count at point of service
• If meal count is not current at review, meals
  will be disqualified for claim

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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database

• CNP Web User Request form
• Will receive User ID Password
• Change your password
• FY2008 Claim submission
• FY2009 Renewals/Updates Claims

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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database

• On-line claiming
• Type in URL address www.cnsonline.alaska.gov/cn
  pweb

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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database
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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database
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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database
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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database
SAMPLE CACFP SPONSOR
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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database
SAMPLE CACFP SPONSOR
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Find your program
Ignore Homes
4,5,6) Certification numbers - Sponsor enters
on October claim. (Only CNS can update these
numbers. 5 6 will be blank)
1) Number of Centers 2) ADA 3) Operating Days 8)
Meal Counts in the appropriate category
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CNP DatabaseClaim Submission
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CNP DatabaseClaim Submission
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CNP DatabaseClaim Submission
Disregard the Adult or Home categories
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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database
Check that you certify you claim is true and
correct
Click Submit when ready and CNS will process
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CNP DatabaseClaim Submission
SAMPLE CACFP SPONSOR
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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database
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Child Nutrition Program (CNP)Database
Next Steps CNS checks and approves claim CNS
sends claim to EED Finance Department EED
Finance pays claim Center can check status of
claim on-line
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Civil Rights Compliance
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What Is Discrimination?

• Discrimination is defined as different
  treatment which makes a distinction of one
  person or a group of persons from others either
  intentionally, by neglect, or by the actions or
  lack of actions based on.

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Protected Classes

• Race
• Color
• Sex
• Age
• National Origin
• Disability

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Civil Rights Laws

• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Race,
  Color, National Origin
• Title IX of Education Amendments of 1972 - Sex
• Section 504 of Rehab. Act of 1973 - Disability
• Age Discrimination Act of 1975 - Age
• Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 - Race,
  Color, National Origin

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Heart of Civil Rights Act

• No person in the United States shall on the
  grounds of race, color, or national origin be
  excluded from participation in, be denied the
  benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination
  under any program or activity receiving Federal
  Financial Assistance.

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8 Areas of Compliance

• Public Notification System
• Data Collection
• Training
• Compliance Reviews
• Civil Rights Complaints
• Assurances
• Limited English Proficiency
• Religious Organizations

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8 Areas of Compliance Public Notification System

• All sponsors and their sites must display in a
  prominent place the And Justice For All,
  nondiscrimination poster .
• Available through State Agency or online at
• http//www.fns.usda.gov/cr/justice.htm
• All sponsors must have the capability of
  providing informational materials in the
  appropriate translation concerning the
  availability and nutritional benefits of the
  CACFP.

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Public Notification System

• The nondiscrimination statement should be
  included, in full, on all materials regarding the
  CACFP that are produced for public notification.

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Nondiscrimination Statement

• In accordance with Federal law and U. S.
  Department of Agriculture policy, this
  institution is prohibited from discriminating on
  the basis of race, color, national origin, sex,
  age or disability.
• To file a complaint of discrimination, write
  USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room
  326-W, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence
  Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call
  [phone] (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal
  opportunity provider and employer.

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Too Big?

• If space is an issue, you can use the
  mini-statement
• USDA is an equal opportunity provider.

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8 Areas of Compliance Data Collection

• Each program must ensure that racial/ethnic data
  are collected each year and maintained on file
  for 3 years the current year
• This data must include the number of children
  actually participating and the estimated number
  of potential eligible children by racial/ethnic
  category.
• Form available on our website at
• http//www.eed.state.ak.us/forms/cns/05-06-010.do
  c

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Data Collection

• Sources to determine the number of potentially
  eligible children include census data or public
  school enrollment data.
• Visual identification may be used by sponsors and
  providers to determine a childs racial/ethnic
  category or the parents may be asked to identify
  the racial/ethnic group of their child.

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8 Areas of Compliance Civil Rights Training

• State agencies are responsible for training local
  agencies on an annual basis
• Local agencies are responsible for training
  subrecipients, including frontline staff who
  interact with applicants or participants on an
  annual basis

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Civil Rights Training

• All staff should receive training on all aspects
  of civil rights compliance.
• Staff should be able to identify a civil rights
  complaint if received.
• They should know what to do if they receive a
  complaint.
• Understand that it is the basic right of the
  individual to file a complaint.

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8 Areas of Compliance Compliance Reviews

• There are three types of Compliance
• Reviews
• Pre-award Compliance Reviews
• Routine Compliance Reviews
• Special Compliance Reviews

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8 Areas of Compliance Civil Rights Complaints

• Right to file a complaint Any Person alleging
  discrimination based on race, color, national
  origin, sex, age, or disability has a right to
  file a complaint within 180 days of the alleged
  discriminatory action.
• Acceptance All civil rights complaints, written
  or verbal, shall be accepted and forwarded to the
  Civil Rights Division of the USDA Food and
  Nutrition Service.

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The following information should beincluded in a
Civil Rights Complaint.

• Name, address, and telephone number of the
  complainant.
• Specific location and name of the entity
  delivering the service or benefit.
• Nature of the incident or action that led the
  complainant to feel discrimination was a factor,
  or an example of the method of administration
  which is having an effect on the public,
  potential participants, or participants.

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The following information should beincluded in a
Civil Rights Complaint.

• The basis on which the complainant feels
  discrimination exists (race, color, national
  origin, sex, age or disability)
• The names, titles, and business addresses of
  persons who may have knowledge of the
  discriminatory action.
• The date(s) during which the alleged
  discriminatory actions occurred, or if
  continuing, the duration of such actions.

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8 Areas of Compliance Assurances

• A civil rights assurance shall be incorporated in
  all agreements between State agencies and
  sponsors.
• State agencies are responsible for reviewing,
  approving, and monitoring State agency/sponsor
  agreements.

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8 Areas of Compliance Limited English Proficiency

• Where a significant number or proportion of
  the population eligible to be served needs
  service or information in a language other than
  English in order to be informed of or to
  participate in the program, the recipient shall
  take reasonable steps to provide information in
  the appropriate language to such persons.

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Limited English Proficiency

• Recipients of Federal financial assistance have a
  responsibility to take reasonable steps to ensure
  meaningful access to their programs and
  activities by persons with limited English
  proficiency.

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Limited English Proficiency

• Factors to consider in determining what is
  reasonable
• Number of LEP individuals participating in the
  Program.
• Frequency of contact with the Program.
• Nature and importance of the Program.
• Resources available.
• For more information on LEP go to www.lep.gov

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8 Areas of Compliance Religious Organizations

• Equal opportunities for religious organizations
• Ensures a level playing field for the
  participation of faith-based organizations and
  other community organizations in the USDA programs

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Religious Organizations

• This is accomplished by
• Prohibiting discrimination on the basis of
  religion, religious belief, or religious
  character in the administration of Federal funds
• Allowing a religious organization that
  participates in USDA programs to retain its
  independence and continue to carryout its
  mission, provided that direct USDA funds do not
  support any inherently religious activities such
  as worship or religious instruction.

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Religious Organizations

• This is accomplished by
• Clarifying that faith-based organizations can use
  space in their facilities to provide USDA-funded
  service without removing religious art, icons,
  scriptures, or other religious symbols and
• Ensuring that no organization that receives
  direct financial assistance from USDA can
  discriminate against a program beneficiary on the
  basis of religion or religious belief.

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Final Words on Civil Rights

• Memories of our lives, of our works and our
  deeds will continue in others who believe and act
  for fairness and justice
• Rosa Parks
• 1913-2005

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Meal Requirements

• Shelters may serve one or more of the following
  meals
• Breakfast
• Lunch (midday meal)
• Supper (evening meal)
• Supplemental food (snack)
• But may only claim a total of 3 per child

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Food Charts for children 1-12 and 12-18
Children Ages 12-18
Breakfast
Fluid Milk
1 cup
1 cup
Juice, Fruit or vegetable
Bread or bread alternate
2 slices or 2 ounces
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Food Charts for children 1-12
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Food Chart for Children age 12-18
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Food Chart for children 1-12
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Snack Minimum Meal Componentsfor children 12-18

• Combination of any two food components
• Reduced portion size requirements
• Fruit ½ cup
• Bread/grains 1 oz
• Meat 1 oz
• Milk 1 cup
• Example 1 cup milk 1 oz banana bread
  

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Menu Planning

• Provide healthy and nutritious meals that meet
  the minimum meal pattern to residential children.
• Additional benefit with emergency shelters is
  that a shelter can teach life skills such as
  nutrition, cooking, and menu planning

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Menu Planning

• Considerations
• Vitamin C source every day
• Vitamin A sources 2-3 times a week
• Variety
• Color
• Moderation

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Menu Planning

• Serve foods high in Vitamin A, C, and Iron
• Vitamin A foods twice a week
• Vitamin C at least daily
• Iron as often as possible

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Menu Planning

• Vitamin A foods include
• Asparagus - Apricots
• Broccoli - Cantaloupe
• Carrots - Cherries
• Kale - Plums
• Peas - Egg Yolk
• Sweet Potatoes

Serve Vitamin A foods twice a week
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Menu Planning

• Vitamin C foods include
• Asparagus - Cantaloupe
• Broccoli - Grapefruit
• Cabbage - Oranges
• Cauliflower - Raspberries
• Peppers - Strawberries
• Spinach

Serve Vitamin C foods daily
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Menu Planning

• Iron food items include
• Asparagus (canned) - Apricots
• Beans (lima, green) - Cherries (canned)
• Peas - Dried Fruits
• Squash - Dried Beans Peas
• Sweet Potatoes - Eggs
• Vegetable Juice - Meat, turkey, tuna
• Dark, green leafy beet greens, chard, collards,
  kale, mustard greens, parsley, spinach, turnip
  greens

Serve iron foods as often as possible
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Menu Planning

• Moderation
• Avoid high sodium days like hotdog on a bun,
  baked beans, sauerkraut and milk
• Avoid planning too many high sodium/high fat
  foods in the same week. Corndogs, fish sticks,
  grilled cheese, ham, and chicken nuggets

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Combination Foods

• In order for pre-packaged or commercial
  combination foods to count toward meeting the
  meal pattern requirements it must have a CN
  (child nutrition) label.
• This label identifies how the food meets the meal
  pattern.

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CN Label
A CN Label Example
CN
000000
This 3.00 oz serving of raw beef patty provides
when Cooked 2.00 oz equivalent meat for Child
Nutrition Meal Pattern Requirements. (Use of
this logo and statement Authorized by the Food
and Nutrition Service, USDA 05-84.)
CN
CN
CN
How do you identify a CN label?

• A CN label will always contain the following
• The CN logo, which is a distinct border
• A 6-digit product identification number
• USDA/FNS authorizationand
• The month and year of approval.

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Combination Foods

• Homemade combination foods can count toward
  meeting the meal pattern requirements as long as
  there is a recipe that can be checked for total
  ingredients.
• Homemade items should be indicated with HM on
  your menus.

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Creditable Foods

• Are foods that may be counted toward meeting the
  components for a reimbursable meal.
• The goal of the CACFP is to improve the health
  and nutrition of children while promoting the
  development of good eating habits and the
  furtherance of nutrition education.
• Not all foods count as creditable components.

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Non-creditable foods

• Examples
• Popcorn
• Cupcakes
• Preserves
• Jell-O
• Kool-Aid

• Cream cheese
• Cheese as milk
• Potatoes as Bread
• Commercial pot pies
• Fruit in bread as a fruit

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About Milk

• Milk should be whole milk for children age 1-2,
  children 2 and up should drink lower fat milk
• Yogurt or cheese may not be served for milk
• Milk and juice should not be served as a beverage
  at the same meal
• Powdered milk may be served if fresh milk is
  unavailable.

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About Milk

• Soy milk and rice milk are not creditable unless
  a medical statement is on file.
• Lactose reduced milk is creditable.
• Milkshakes and smoothies may be creditable
• Breast milk is creditable for infants
• Milk is not creditable in items like cooked
  cereals, custards, puddings, etc.

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Meat/Meat Alternates

• Nuts and seeds may only fulfill ½ of the meat
  requirement
• Watch out for peanut butter sandwiches, you may
  not have enough to be creditable
• Alternate protein products are becoming
  increasingly creditable
• Lunchmeats may not have by-products, cereal, or
  extenders

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Meat/Meat Alternates

• Cheese sauce is creditable if it is real cheese,
  not imitation
• Cottage or Ricotta Cheese must be doubled (2
  ounces 1 ounce)
• 4 oz yogurt equals 1 oz. of meat
• Traditional subsistence foods may be creditable.

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Traditional Foods

• What can be used
• Fresh or Frozen Fish
• Fresh of Frozen game such as reindeer, caribou,
  beaver, whale, moose, ducks and birds
• The cook or other authorized person must decide
  if food is safe to prepare
• Must be labeled with name of food, date received,
  and source of food

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Traditional Foods

• What cannot be used
• Wild mushrooms
• Bivalve shellfish such as clams or mussels
• Fox meat organs
• Bear or walrus meat
• Polar bear liver
• Fermented meat seafood (stink eggs, fermented
  beaver tail, fermented flipper, etc)
• Non-commercial smoked fish products

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Fruits Vegetables

• Juice must be 100 fruit juice and may only be
  creditable at breakfast or snack
• 2 forms of the same fruit or vegetable may not be
  served at a meal (i.e. apple juice and apple
  sauce or tomatoes and tomato sauce)
• Beans can be a vegetable or meat but not at the
  same meal

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Fruits Vegetables

• Fruits/Vegetables served as a combination item
  are creditable as only one serving
• For Example
• Peas and carrots
• Fruit cocktail
• Pizza
• Stew

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Fruits Vegetables

• Fruit in yogurt creditable if provider puts it
  in, not manufacturer.
• Minimum serving is 1/8 cup to count toward
  creditable meal

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Soups

• Where does soup fit in?
• Homemade soup may be creditable for meat and/or
  vegetables if the components are documented

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Soups - Commercial

• Commercial soups contain insufficient meat/meat
  alternate content per serving to receive credit
  for meat component
• Condensed or ready-to-serve (canned or frozen)
  vegetable or vegetable w/meat or poultry takes 1
  cup reconstituted to yield ¼ cup of vegetables

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Checking Ingredients
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Checking Ingredients
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Feeding Infants

• All infants under one year enrolled for care must
  be offered participation in the CACFP.
• The shelter must offer
• A minimum of one brand of iron fortified infant
  formula
• Food items as age appropriate for meal pattern

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Infant Meal Pattern - Breakfast
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Infant Meal Pattern - Snack
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Infant Meal Pattern - Lunch/Supper
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Infant Meal Pattern

• Only iron-fortified infant cereal meets the
  cereal requirement of the CACFP Infant Meal
  Pattern.
• Cheerios and other non-infant cereals (dry or
  cooked) do not meet cereal requirement of the
  CACFP Infant Meal Pattern.

 
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Infant Meal Pattern

• Production records and accurate meal counts must
  be maintained for all infant meals claimed for
  CACFP reimbursement.
• Production records at a small center can be as
  simple as noting the feeding on the center menu.
• A written statement from a recognized medical
  authority must be on file for any meal pattern
  exceptions or the meal may not be claimed for
  CACFP reimbursement.

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Infant Meal Pattern

• Shelter may not have a policy to exclude infants
  from the CACFP and/or require parents to supply
  the infants meals.
• An infant under one year may not be served the
  regular CACFP Meal Pattern for children 1-12
  years old without a medical statement. 

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Infant Meal Pattern

• CREDITABLE INFANT FOODS
• Breast Milk
• Iron-Fortified Infant Formulas (Milk-based or
  Soy-Based)
• Follow-up iron Fortified Infant Formulas (For
  infants 6-months or older)
• Iron-Fortified Infant Cereals
• Commercial strained, Junior or instant baby
• Foods that are 100 fruit, vegetables or meat
• Strained and Toddler fruit juices
• Age-appropriate table foods that meet the CACFP
  Infant Meal Pattern

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Infant Meal Pattern

• NON-CREDITABLE INFANT FOODS
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• Infant Formulas without iron (including low-iron
  infant formulas)
• Milk (Whole, 2, 1 and non-fat or skim)
• Flavored milk
• Non-infant cereal (except as extra finger foods)
• Vegetable and meat combination dinners
• Jarred infant cereals
• Strained, junior and instant cereals with fruit
• Infant desserts, cobblers, pudding, etc.
• Commercial baby foods that are NOT 100 fruit,
  vegetables or meat or that contain DHA

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Reminders

• Maintain
• Record of menus that meet the meal pattern
  requirements
• Separate meal counts
• Daily attendance

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Common Questions

•   Can shelters serve children meals donated by
  restaurants and claim reimbursement for them?
• Yes, donated prepared meals served to
  eligible children may be claimed for
  reimbursement, as long as they meet CACFP meal
  pattern requirements. Reimbursable meals and
  snacks made from donated foods must contain
  creditable amounts of each required food
  component. The shelter may have to add other food
  items to the meal service to ensure that it
  contains the minimum amounts of meat or meat
  alternate, vegetables or fruit or both, grains or
  breads, and fluid milk to be eligible for
  reimbursement

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Common Questions

• Children's meals and snacks prepared with
  TEFAP commodities may be claimed under CACFP. As
  charitable institutions, emergency shelters may
  receive and use USDA commodity foods to prepare
  meals and snacks to serve to children in CACFP
  and to their other clients.. At a minimum, the
  shelter must maintain menus, meal counts, and
  daily rosters (of children receiving meals), to
  justify its claims for reimbursement. All CACFP
  reimbursement must be used to maintain or enhance
  the food service for children.

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Common Questions

• Does the requirement to maintain a "nonprofit
  food service" (226.2) apply to emergency
  shelters?
• Shelters are often run by volunteers and
  operate on a "shoestring. A simple record of
  revenues and expenditures for food service
  operations is all that is needed. These records
  will serve to ensure that reimbursement is used
  only to support food service to eligible children.

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Common Questions

•   Some shelters may be authorized to accept
  food stamps from some of their meal clients. Can
  a shelter that accepts food stamps as payment for
  meals accept food stamps and claim reimbursement
  for the meals served to eligible children through
  CACFP?
• Yes, if an emergency shelter provides services
  in exchange for a specific portion of a familys
  food stamps, and there is no separate charge for
  individual meals, the shelter can claim
  reimbursement for serving meals and snacks to
  eligible children. The shelter cannot collect
  food stamps as payment for specific meals, and
  still claim those meals under CACFP. That would
  be equivalent to making a family pay cash for its
  childs meals, when the meals must always be
  served free.

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For more information on CACFP

• Jo Dawson
• CACFP Specialist
• [phone]
• jo_dawson_at_eed.state.ak.us

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Emergency Shelters

• Child and Adult Care Food Program