Grant recipients just announced! Over $8.6 million awarded to eleven state agencies.
State agencies used these grants to implement and evaluate nutrition education, meal service training, and environmental changes in school or child care settings. This booklet showcases only a small portion of the wide array of grantee activities conducted.
USDA Food and Nutrition Service expects to award approximately $9.6 million in total funding.
This publication showcases accomplishments, selected interventions and notable outcomes of 2016 grant activities.
To assist states and CACFP operators with implementation of the updated CACFP meal patterns, Congress appropriated funds for the provision of noncompetitive grants for states to provide hands-on training and technical assistance. These meal service training grants will assist state agencies in providing job skills training for CACFP operators on ways to plan and prepare and serve nutritious foods.