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Last week, we partnered with food access advocates across the state of California to discuss with Stacy Dean, Deputy Undersecretary at...

In follow-up to the email titled Emergency Operating Costs Reimbursement (ECR) Programs sent June 7, 2021, the California Department of...

Final budget negotiations happening now! Yell it from the rooftops: CACFP & child care matter!!

Next week, the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance is hosting three webinars, one for family child care, one for child...

On June 8th, Tom Copeland, presented a webinar for family child care providers "What the New Food Program Changes Mean to You." This...

On June 11th, USDA issued Questions and Answers for Child Nutrition Program Operations in School Year 2021-2022 to clarify questions that...

In April USDA released a set of nationwide waivers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CDE has released their guidance on applying for the...

Copied below is the information and link in order to opt into the nationwide waivers issued by USDA in April. We are pulling up and out...

When Governor Newsome proposed to expand the current transitional kindergarten to children as young as 48 months old, the proposal was...

CA legislature has finalized a budget, now negotiations turn to the Governor. Make a call today to say CACFP and child care matter!

Below is some text CACFP Sponsors, family child care provider associations, child care resource and referral (CCR&Rs) other provider...

Yesterday, we had a dynamic discussion with leaders about the adult meals in the Child and Adult Care Food Program. We heard about lived...

Revised June 18, 2021 During the last week of May, the California Department of Education (CDE) Nutrition Services Division (NSD) held a...

Yesterday, June 1, 2021, the California Department of Education, Nutrition Services Division (CDE/NSD) sent out further instructions to...

New Job Alert! Branch Chief of CACFP

Updated 5/25/2021: CDE had to take the zoom links down from their website. If you are interested in participating in the CACFP Emergency...

On April 19th, USDA published a Q&A regarding "Child Nutrition Program Oversight, Administration, and Reporting During COVID-19." The Q&A...

In a blog post on May 4th, the Urban Institute argues that barriers need to be removed so that more home-based child care providers can...

Thank you, Child Care Providers. Get access to our May Nutrition Edition for free this month!

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and after pivoting throughout an especially long year the Roundtable thought it was important to...