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3/8/2024 Now available: The Child Nutrition (CN) Labeling Manual

3/7/2024 RELEASE: 2024-2025 Income Eligibility Guidelines

3/6/2024 RELEASE: Proposed Rule for Serious Deficiency Process in SFSP and CACFP

3/6/2024 RELEASE: School Data for Area Eligibility Report

2/16/2024 ACTION REQUIRED – Validation of all Unaffiliated CACFP At-Risk Sites

2/5/2024 ACTION REQUIRED! - Sponsors of Unaffiliated At-Risk Sites

2/5/2024 CACFP Training - Reach Out to Your ESC

2/5/2024 Unanticipated School Closure Notification Forms and Guidance

2/5/2024 RELEASE: NEW Duplicative Services FAQs

2/2/2024 RELEASE: SFSP and SSO Rural Non-Congregate Service Regulations

2/2/2024 New features and food yields in the Food Buying Guide Web-Based Tool

1/8/2024 CACFP Menu Planners for Breakfast and Snack in English and Spanish

1/8/2024 Reminder for all TX-UNPS and WBSCM entities

1/4/2024 FAQs Clarify Duplicative Costs and Multiple Contracts for Same Service

12/4/2023 Important Security Reminders for User Access Managers (UAM) of TX-UNPS

12/4/2023 Updated Team Nutrition Resources for the Child Nutrition Programs

12/4/2023 Updated Guidance on Access to Domesticated and Wild Game Animals

12/4/2023 Crediting Tofu and Soy Yogurt Products in the Child Nutrition Programs

12/4/2023 CACFP Menu Planners for Breakfast and Snack in English and Spanish

11/14/2023 Important Guidance for And Justice for All Posters

10/24/2023 New Milk Flexibility Available with Emergency Conditions Notification Form for Contracting Entities Experiencing Milk Service Disruption

10/2/2023 Now Available! New Food Yields Added to the Food Buying Guide

10/2/2023 FDA Issued Recall: Eagle Produce Whole Cantaloupe

9/27/2023 Updated Guidance on the Infant Meal Pattern

9/19/2023 Scholarships Available for CACFP Event

8/29/2023 Important Information about Health Coverage among Child Nutrition Program Participants

8/25/2023 NEW! Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule

7/7/2023 COVID-19 Page on SquareMeals.org Retired

7/7/2023 Remaining COVID-19 Flexibilities and Keep Kids Fed Act Provisions Expired June 30, 2023

12/2/2022 Specific Prior Written Approval (SPWA) Overview

10/29/2021 Minimum CACFP Protocol Threshold Salary Increase Guidance for Staff and General Office Positions

7/29/2021 CACFP Meal Rates Effective 7/1/21

7/19/2021 DCH Meal Rates Effective 7/1/21

7/12/2021 CACFP Program Year 2021-2022 (PY22)

7/2/2021 CACFP Special Processing Guidance

7/1/2021 CACFP Application Processing

5/20/2021 CACFP Compensation Protocol

4/14/2021 Requests for Increases in Compensation

8/30/2020 Multiple Meal Times

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In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
 

Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
 

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:

1. Mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
2. Fax: (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
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