Action Alert! CACFP bill to be introduced in the House needs your organization's support

The Early Childhood Nutrition Improvement Act will soon be introduced by Representatives Bonamici (D-OR) and Herrera Beutler (R-WA). This bipartisan bill would strengthen CACFP in a number of ways, including:

• allowing another meal or snack for children in a full day of care
• improving reimbursement rate adjustments for child care home providers
• moving to annual eligibility for for-profit child care centers
• maximizing technology to eliminate overly burdensome and outdated paperwork; and
• making improvements to the serious deficiency process.

It's important for our community to show up strong with organizational sign-on to this bill so that others in Congress and throughout the child nutrition world understand this bill is important and impactful to you and our CACFP community at large. Here is a link to the fact sheet for more information. Here is a link to the quick from to fill out to add your organization's name.

Not sure if you should sign on? Some considerations:

• This is for organizations, agencies or companies to sign on, not for individuals at this time (there will be a time for individuals to take action soon!)
• Child care centers, family child care providers or other businesses - please do sign on but be sure to use the business name (not your individual name)
• If you are not a national organization, such as a child care center or school etc, choose the "state/local organization" option for the question "Is this a National Organization or a State/local organization?"
• If you're not sure what to do, contact [email protected] and we'll figure it out together

Fun note, when the bill was originally introduced Representative Bonamici spoke about it during our CACFP 50th Birthday Celebration.  You can listen to her champion CACFP about here!