From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org):
The Access to Healthy Food for Young Children Act of 2019, introduced by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), would strengthen the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by
- allowing an additional CACFP meal or snack in full-day child care;
- increasing CACFP reimbursements by 10 cents for each meal and snack;
- allowing annual eligibility for proprietary (for-profit) child care centers;
- improving area eligibility for family child care by reducing the threshold to 40 percent;
- allocating $5 million to support the new healthy meal pattern and beverage best practices;
- allowing high-poverty child care centers to collect income applications every four years rather than every year;
- improving the cost of living adjustment for child care home reimbursement rates to reflect more accurately the real costs to providers;
- creating a CACFP Community Eligibility Provision pilot to eliminate income applications for centers; and
- directing USDA to reduce unnecessary paperwork resulting from federal and state regulations and record-keeping requirements.
Show your support by endorsing the Access to Healthy Foods for Young Children Act of 2019 today at https://frac.salsalabs.org/cacfp-act-2019-signon/index.html.
Check out FRAC’s fact sheet and statement on the bill, and our Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) action page for more information. See Senator Casey’s press release. Contact Geri Henchy at ghenchy@frac.org with questions.
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