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Food and Nutrition Service - Child and Adult Care Food Program

The program provides funding to States to support nonprofit food service programs for children in child care centers and family day care homes, and to adults in day care settings. Per meal reimbursements are higher for meals served to low-income individuals and cover the cost of nutritious, age appropriate meals.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program is well targeted to low-income children. Most participating centers and homes provide well-balanced meals and snacks, supplying more than one-half of the Recommended Daily Allowances for calories and substantially more than two-thirds of key nutrients.
  • The program lacks up-to date independent evaluations to indicate whether or not recent program changes are achieving results.
  • The program has initiated a series of efforts improve grantee oversight and develop a methodology to determine the level of erroneous payments in the program.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing new long-term measures to assess the nutrient content of meals; piloting a process to collect annual data on compliance with meal pattern requirements.
  • Continuing a management improvement initiative, including new regulations, training, and technical assistance for program sponsors, to address identified weaknesses in program management.
  • Collecting annual data on the accuracy of reimbursement rate determinations in family day care homes to determine the program's efficiency in ensuring payments are made properly.

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