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Contact Alpha & Omega Nutrition Program at 901-360-1000 and request a participation requirement check list. After reviewing the list provided and meeting all requirements, call to schedule a 2-3 hour orientation to meet with the food program staff. We serve licensed and unregulated family child care homes, child care centers, adult daycare centers and at-risk after school care programs. As a licensed or unregulated child & adult care provider, the program provides you with financial reimbursement for serving nutritious USDA approved meals and snacks to children & adults in your care. In order to join the Food Program, contact us by phone at 901-360-1000 or 901-220-4687, by email alphaomegafnp@gmail.com or visit our website at www.alphaomegafnp.org to arrange for an orientation. You'll be up and running in no time!

All children in daycare centers from birth through age 12 can be claimed. Children of migrant parents can participate up to age 15. Children up to age 18 can be claimed in after chool care programs. You will need to send an enrollment form, signed by the parent, to your sponsor for each child in your care. You may claim your own children for meals at which other non-resident children that are enrolled in the Food Program are present, and if you qualify by your income level. Foster children may also be claimed for meals at which other non-resident children are claimed.

Each day you will need to make a record of attendance, menus and meal counts by midnight. This may sound like a daunting task, however it takes very little time. Current providers in the program state that recording menus and meal counts daily takes approximately five to ten minutes! Your monitor will provide you with online and mobile access to input claim information and how to enroll and submit the claims monthly to your sponsor.

Monitors check several things when they conduct a home visit. Many times, they will provide additional technical assistance to make sure you know exactly what you are required to do to be in compliance. If you have repeated difficulty keeping daily records, an improvement plan will be started. If you are over capacity or if there is a health or safety issue, your representative will complete a report and provide a corrective action plan. The report will be available for review by your sponsor. Follow-up will be conducted for compliance verification.

Every child care setting should have a first aid kit stocked with items on the list below. You can buy the supplies for the first aid kit at drug stores or medical supply stores. Each first aid kit should be large enough to hold all the necessary supplies for first aid in the child care setting. Use a container that will close tightly. It should be stored out of reach of children. You should arrange the contents so you can reach items easily without emptying the kit. You should be sure that the contents are wrapped tightly and are sanitary. You should restock the kit after each use. A first aid kit should contain the following items: 1. First aid cards* Commercial cold pack or plastic bag for ice cubes 2. Adhesive strip bandages (1/2", 3/4", 1" strips) Clean cloth 3. Gauze bandages (4"x4", nonstick, sterile) Soap 4. Rolled flexible or stretch gauze Small plastic cup 5. Bandage tape Sealed packages of cleansing wipes 6. Nonstick, sterile pads (different sizes) Syrup of ipecac (1-ounce bottle) 7. Triangular bandages 8. Small splints 9. Eye dressing or pad 10. Special items for children with specific health problems (such as bee sting kit or an inhaler for a child with asthma) 11. Scissors Emergency Telephone Guide 12. Tweezers 13. Safety pins 14. Emergency contact information (phone numbers of the children's parents) 15. Thermometer Change for pay phone 16. Flashlight with fresh batteries Pen or pencil and note pad 17. Disposable latex gloves 18. Three-ounce rubber bulb syringe (to rinse out eyes, wounds, etc.)

Eligible public or private nonprofit child care centers, outside-school-hours care centers, Head Start programs, and other institutions which are licensed or approved to provide day care services may participate in CACFP, independently or as sponsored centers. For profit centers must receive title XX funds for at least 25 percent of enrolled children or licensed capacity (whichever is less) or at least 25 percent of the children in care must be eligible for free and reduced price meals. Meals served to children are reimbursed at rates based upon a child's eligibility for free, reduced price, or paid meals. Alpha & Omega Nutrition Program determines if your center meets the 25% threshold monthly. The Children benefit because they are recipients of nutritious meal daily. The parents benefit because their children receive free and well-balanced meals while they are at work. The childcare provider, benefits by receiving monthly reimbursement payments to help cover the cost of the meals and snacks purchased and served. It is a valuable community service to offer meals at no cost to the children in your care. This is also a marketing tools that can be used to recruit more children.

To participate on the program you must operate a Tennessee licensed childcare center. You must serve meals and snacks that meet the nutritional guidelines established by the USDA and you must agree not to charge your childcare parents for the food you serve. Alpha & Omega Nutrition Program Incorporated will assume full responsibility for the administrative & financial liabilities of your food program operations. Alpha & Omega Nutrition program will provide governance that ensures your program will be operated in compliance with all local, state & state program guidelines.

Reimbursements are disbursed once each month, providers are required to document daily, and submit your all food program records to Alpha & Omega Nutrition Program Inc. Our office will process your received records and reconcile meals and attendance with the meals served to determined eligible reimbursement payment based on the program requirements. Centers are reimbursed based on meal rates set by the USDA. The rate categorizes are “free”, “reduced”, and “paid” and are determined for each child based on guidelines set by the United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA) annually.

As your sponsor, Alpha & Omega Nutrition Program, Inc. assumes full administrative and financial responsibility for your child care food program operations. The state of Tennessee requires participating centers to be bonded, submit to background checks, provide proof of financial viability (which includes up to three months of bank records), and create detailed management plans and budgets. As a Alpha & Omega Nutrition Program Inc. sponsored facility, you operate under the auspices of our organizations financial viability and management plan with no extra burden. As your CACFP sponsor, Alpha & Omega Nutrition Program we stand between you and the state of Tennessee. When you are visited by the State, our goal is to support you through the process and assure that you are prepared to ace all requirements. Our quarterly monitoring reviews, annual training, monthly resources, and regular technical assistance are all in an effort to keep your center’s child care food program finding free. In fact, our sponsored centers that have been monitored by the state agency have not received findings for overpayments!

September 30, 2017 As of October 1, 2017, breakfast cereal served in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) must contain no more than 6 grams of sugar per dry ounce. You may serve any cereal that is listed on any State agency’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)-approved cereal list, found as part of the State’s approved food lists at: https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/links-state-agency-wic-approved-food-lists. You may also find cereals that meet the whole grain requirement. Nutrition Facts label can also help in determining the sugar limit. Click here for the Choosing Breakfast Cereals That Are Lower In Added Sugars Flyer(undefined)

September 30, 2017 As of October 1, 2017, yogurt served in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) must contain more than 23 grams of sugar per 6 ounces. There are many types of yogurt that meet this requirement. It is easy to find them by using the Nutrition Facts label and following these simple steps or using the yogurt chart provided. Click here for the Choosing Yogurts That Are Lower In Added Sugars Flyer(undefined)

September 30, 2017 Every day, more than 4 million children get meals and snacks through USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Thanks to recent updates to the CACFP meal patterns, you now have even more opportunities to help children and adults get the nutrition they need to learn, grow, play and be healthy. Click here for the Growing A Healthier Future With The CACFP Flyer(undefined)

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Infant Meal Pattern Changes - Requires whole vegetables and fruits to be served at snack for infants 6-11 months old. - Eliminates fruit juice from the infant meal pattern - Allows ready to eat cereals to be served as a grain at snack for infants 6-11 months old - Allows cheese, cottage cheese and yogurt as allowable meat alternates for infants 6-11 months old Click here for Infant - New Meal Pattern & Changes (2017)(http://media.wix.com/ugd/7dcf76_00c093643d7940db9fbdb1a254759741.pdf)

New October 1, 2017 CACFP Meal Pattern Changes - New age group established as: 1-2 years, 3-5 years, 6-12 years and 13-18 years - Breakfast cereal should not contain more than 6grams of sugar per dry ounce effective October 1, 2019, ounce equivalents are used to determine the quantity of creditable grains - Breakfast- Allows meat and meat alternates to be served in the place of the entire grains a maximum of three (3) times per week - Yogurt- should contain no more than 23 grams of sugar per 6 ounces - Flavored Milk is NOT prohibited for children ages 2-5 - Flavored Milk must contain no more than 22 grams of sugar per 8 ounces for children 6 years and older - Water is required to be made available and offered upon request to children throughout the day - Vegetable and Fruit component should be separate components at Lunch, Supper and Snack - Fruit and Vegetables are limited tone serving daily for children over 1 (one) years old - Whole Grain- required one serving daily to be enriched - Tofu- creditable meat alternate - Grain based desserts are not allowable and cannot be counted toward the grain requirement - Prohibits frying as a way of preparing food on-site, as defined as deep fat frying - Restrict the use of food as a punishment or reward - Allows reimbursement for meals that contain one component that is provided by the parents or guardian - Allows non-dairy beverages that are nutritionally equivalent to milk and meet the nutritional standards for fortification of calcium, protein, vitamin A, vitamin D, and other nutrients to levels found in cow's milk - Proposes practices that must be followed when a provider or center chooses to serve meal family style Click here for Children - New Meal Pattern & Changes (2017)(https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/7dcf76_a34203b07f044b0ab7277e55e5f8cc69.pdf)

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