USDA’s Child and
Adult Care Food
Program plays a
vital role in
improving the
quality of day
care and making
it more
affordable for
many low-income
families. Each
day, 2.6 million
children receive
nutritious meals
and snacks
through CACFP.
The program also
provides meals
and snacks to
74,000 adults
who receive care
in
nonresidential
adult day care
centers. CACFP
reaches even
further to
provide meals to
children
residing in
homeless
shelters, and
snacks and
suppers to
youths
participating in
eligible
afterschool care
programs.
1. What is CACFP?
CACFP is the
Child and Adult
Care Food
Program, a
Federal program
that supports or
provides
funding, for
healthy meals
and snacks
served to
children and
adults receiving
day care. It
plays a vital
role in
improving the
quality of day
care and making
it more
affordable for
many low-income
families.
CACFP reimburses
participating
centers and day
care homes for
their meal
costs. It is
administered at
the Federal
level by the
Food and
Nutrition
Service (FNS),
an agency of the
U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
The Nevada State
Department of
Education,
Office of Child
Nutrition and
School Health
administers
CACFP in Nevada.
Independent
centers and
sponsoring
organizations
enter into
agreements with
the State agency
to operate the
program.
2. What types of
facilities
provide CACFP
benefits?
3. Who gets CACFP meals and
snacks?
Children age 12
and younger are
eligible to
receive up to
two meals and
one snack, each
day, at a day
care home or
center, through
CACFP. Children
through age 18
who reside in
homeless
shelters may
receive up to
three
reimbursable
meals each day.
Migrant children
age 15 and
younger, and
persons with
disabilities,
regardless of
their age, are
also eligible
for CACFP.
Afterschool care
snacks are
available to
children through
age 18. Adult
participants
must be
functionally
impaired or age
60 or older, and
enrolled in an
adult care
center where
they may receive
up to two meals
and one snack,
each day,
through CACFP.
Click here for or more
information on CACFP, including
current
reimbursement
rates for
qualifying
sponsors go to:
If you are
interested in
becoming a
sponsor, call
702-486-6472.
4.
Training
Resources
5. Meal
Vendors
