PCCPA

📢 Important Reminder for All Providers/Sites

To help ensure accurate CACFP documentation and smooth operations, our staff will be calling everyone to confirm your current meal times. Please be sure to answer or return our calls so we can verify that the information we have on file is correct.

🔔 Important Reminders:

✅ Meal Time Changes
Any changes to your meal times must be emailed to our office BEFORE the change takes place. Meal times cannot be updated after the fact.

✅ Closures or Early Closing
If you will be closing early, closed for a holiday, or not operating for any reason, it is your responsibility to notify us in advance. This helps us keep your records accurate and avoid compliance issues.

Your cooperation helps ensure that everyone stays in compliance with CACFP requirements. Thank you for your attention and for the great work you do for the children in your care! 👏

📢 CACFP Reminder for Day Care Homes & Day Care Centers

To ensure accurate CACFP meal claims and program compliance, all Day Care Homes (DCH) and Day Care Centers (DCC) must notify their sponsor when they will not be operating or when meal service will stop for the day.

✅ Planned Closures
If you know in advance that you will be closed (vacation, holiday, training day, etc.), please notify your sponsor at least 24 hours before the closure.

⚠️ Unexpected Closures or Early Closures
If an emergency occurs (illness, weather, family emergency, etc.) and you must close early, please notify your sponsor before the next scheduled meal service time whenever possible.

📌 Example:
If you served breakfast but must close before lunch, please notify your sponsor before lunch meal service begins.

📌 Examples when notification is required:
• Vacation or personal days
• Illness or family emergency
• Weather emergencies
• Licensing closures
• No children in care
• Closing early during the day

This helps ensure that CACFP meals are only claimed for meals that were actually served while the site was operating.

If you need to report a closure or have questions, please contact your CACFP sponsor as soon as possible.

⏰ CACFP Compliance Reminder for Providers!

Serving meals at the correct time is just as important as serving the right foods in the CACFP program! 🍎🥛

To make sure your meals are reimbursable, remember these key points:

✅ Meals must be served within your approved CACFP meal service times
✅ Children must be present and participating
✅ Meals must follow the CACFP meal pattern
✅ Meals must be eaten on-site

🍽 CACFP Meal Types May Include:
• Breakfast
• AM Snack
• Lunch
• PM Snack
• Supper (Dinner)
• Evening Snack

⚠️ CACFP Rule:
Only two meals and one snack OR one meal and two snacks per child per day may be claimed.

Children attending at different times of the day may be claimed for different meal combinations based on their attendance.

Our goal is to help providers stay compliant, confident, and successful while continuing to serve nutritious meals to children every day. ❤️

📞 Questions? Contact PCCPA:
281-912-3054
🌐 pccpa.org

📦 Provider Resource Opportunity

PCCPA currently has a variety of surplus materials available that may help providers improve and maintain the spaces where children learn, play, and grow.

Items may include materials such as:
• Light bulbs and filters
• Paint and maintenance supplies
• Flooring and tile materials
• Lawn and outdoor supplies
• Miscellaneous building and improvement materials

Because supplies are limited, providers will be selected through a short application process, similar to a small resource grant opportunity.

📍 Pickup Location: Sugar Land, TX
📦 Pickup Required

Selected providers will be invited to visit and choose from the available materials, with reasonable limits so multiple programs can benefit.

To apply, please email:

📧 [email protected]

Please include your program name, city, and a short description of how the materials could support your program environment.