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What do you have to do?
Participating in the Food Program is great for day care centers. After all, what center couldn’t use a few hundred extra dollars per month? But in order to get that money, you do have to do some work.
First and foremost, you must serve your children the best quality meals. The individual foods you serve and the combination of foods served together must follow the USDA meal pattern.
In addition, you've got to keep detailed documentation. You've got to record what foods you're serving each day, and to whom you serve those foods. You typically need to plan your meals out at least a week head of time. And each month, you will send your records via the internet to Midwest Child Care Association. We try to make this as easy as possible by giving you the software that allows you to record this information quickly and easily, in seconds, and this software is completely free for Midwest’s centers.
Also, you've got to be willing to allow a representative from Midwest into your center periodically throughout the year to conduct unannounced visits and she will answer any of your questions and look over your records. These visits are an important part of ensuring that those tax dollars that go toward your reimbursement check are being spent in the way they were intended--to help you serve healthy meals to the children in your care.
In order to participate in the Food Program, you will contact Midwest Child Care Association after you are licensed through the State and for “for-profit" centers you have a Title XX agreement to provide subsidy care through the State of Nebraska.
402-551-2379 or 800 876-1892
We will train you and your staff on all of the details, including what foods you need to serve at each meal, how to do your paperwork, and more!
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At the end of the month, once you have submitted your records to Midwest, we will mail you a reimbursement check.
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Midwest Child Care Association .
7701 Pacific Street . Omaha, NE 68114
(402) 551-2379 . (800) 876-1892
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