Events, Trainings and Resources
Click on the title above for an overview of some important resources, deadlines, and upcoming events, including National CACFP Week, Megacon, CACFP Classroom Training, and more!
If your CE has not yet completed the biannual Texas Farm Fresh Survey, today is your last day to do so! CACFP administrators were emailed an invitation to take the survey. This survey collects information about CE purchases of Texas-grown foods and Farm Fresh educational activities conducted with CACFP program participants. For questions regarding the survey, please contact FarmFresh@TexasAgriculture.gov.
USDA’s Team Nutrition initiative is pleased to announce the release of two slightly revised PowerPoint (PPT) training slides for “Identifying Whole Grain-Rich Foods for the CACFP Using the Ingredient List”, Parts 1 & 2. The English and Spanish versions of the training slides have been updated to remove footnotes related to the COVID-19 Pandemic and to include new images.
NEW! CICN Resources Available
Team Nutrition, in partnership with the Culinary Institute of Child Nutrition (CICN), has released several new and updated culinary trainings, webinars, and recipes to provide school nutrition professionals with the tools to create scratch-based, healthy, student-approved school meals.
Looking to add mandarins, lychee, or sorghum to your menu? Checkout the new food yield data in the updated FBG to assist in your menu planning and purchasing. FBG resources are available in an interactive web-based tool, mobile app, or downloadable PDF linked in the title above.
TDA would like to announce new vacant positions. Click the title above to browse current employment opportunities.
TDA has published a revised 2022-2023 School Data for Area Eligibility Report to include a small number of new CEP sites that were inadvertently omitted. Schools listed on this report as well as non-school summer sites and CACFP At-risk sites in the attendance zones of the schools listed are eligible to operate their respective programs.
On February 3, 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), released the Proposed Rule Child Nutrition Programs: Revision to Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Contracting Entities in the Child Nutrition Programs are encouraged to comment on the Proposed Rule by April 10, 2023.
End of Public Health Emergency Announced for May 11, 2023
The end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE) has been announced for May 11, 2023. The only flexibility that must end May 11 is the ability to serve CACFP meals to young adults ages 19-24 at emergency shelters.
TDA has updated four CACFP Site/Provider forms to reflect the prohibition of using visual observation to obtain racial/ethnic data of child and adult participants.