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National CACFP Forum Leadership Conference Agenda 

The track will feature inspiring speakers, informative sessions, and opportunities to learn about:
  • Advocacy: CACFP Innovation, Dedication, Celebration
  • USDA CACFP Updates
  • Successful CACFP Strategies: Child Care, Afterschool, and Homeless Programs
  • Innovations in CACFP Procurement: Affordable Healthy Foods for CACFP Child Care and Afterschool Programs
  • Partnerships and Funding Sources to Support CACFP Participation and Healthy Appealing CACFP Meals and Snacks
  • Making CACFP a Multicultural Success: Serving a Diversity of Families
  • Early Childhood Nutrition

The Breakfast keynote will be ...
The Honorable Stephen K. Benjamin, Mayor of Columbia, SC, will be our keynote speaker during the Breakfast Plenary on Monday, February 25.
2019 Anti-Hunger Policy Conference Draft Agenda Now Available
Check out the topics and workshop titles now!


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Members of the Forum Board of Directors relaxing with USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon at the Sunday night reception for attendees of the CACFP Leadership Conference,  March 2, 2014. 

Pictured Front left: Ipek Taffe, The Planning Council; Susanna Reza, El Paso Human Services, USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon; James D. Weill, President FRAC; Marty Campolito, President National CACFP Forum; Carolyn Morrison, CACFP Forum.  Back Row: Elyse Homel Vitale, CFPA; Samantha Daleiden Marshall, T&L Foundation; Geri Henchy, FRAC; Chris Clark, CCFP Roundtable.

Sample AGENDA  

SUNDAY
8:30AM–6:00PM     Registration & Internet Center Open    
8:30AM–10:30AM    Continental Breakfast
10:45AM–12:15PM    Workshop Session I
12:30PM–2:00PM     Lunch and Welcome Plenary Session
2:15PM–3:30PM       Workshop Session II
3:30PM–4:00PM      Break
4:00PM–5:15PM       Workshop Session III
5:30PM–7:30PM       Reception


MONDAY

8:30AM-5:30PM         Registration & Internet Center Open
8:30AM–10:30AM       Breakfast Plenary
10:45AM–12:00PM     Workshop Session IV
12:15PM–1:45PM        Luncheon Plenary Session
2:15PM–3:30PM         Workshop Session V
4:00PM–5:15PM        Workshop Session VI
5:30PM–6:30PM        Regional Meetings


Dinner on Your Own

TUESDAY
7:00AM                          Grab & Go Breakfast
8:30AM                          Lobby Day Kickoff
10:00AM                        Member Visits on Capitol Hill. Please schedule your visits to start after 10AM but feel free to use the
​                                       remainder of the day to complete your visits before traveling back home.

Why should you GO to the National CACFP Forum
​Leadership at the Anti Hunger Policy Conference?

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Who is Going?

Child and Adult Care Food Program leaders; After School/At Risk, CACFP Sponsors, CACFP Tribal Leaders, CACFP Adult Care, CACFP Head Start Leaders, Child Care Leaders, anti-hunger and anti-poverty advocates; federal, state and local government officials; child advocates; representatives of food banks and food rescue organizations;sponsoring organizations and nutrition and anti-obesity groups.

The National CACFP Leadership conference brings together leaders from the CACFP community. Discover your role in CACFP Leadership, policy, best practices, shaping change, meet with USDA officials, and focus on opportunities for cutting red tape, building a thriving CACFP program, and making the most of the new nutrition and wellness requirements.

Everyone in CACFP is a Leader, just in different ways. Find your Leadership Role.​

Go for 10 Reasons

​Hear from the Experts 
Share your Ideas
Stretch your Mind
​Head to Capitol Hill with Colleagues
Attend Standing Ovation-Worthy Sessions
Hear from the Policymakers
Get your Questions Answered
Network and Learn while having fun
Tell Congress Now
Your invested time will make a difference!
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Co-sponsored by the Food Research & Action Center and Feeding America in cooperation with the National CACFP Forum
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