Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) provides qualified applicants with the opportunity for a home-based business providing day care homes for working parents and their children. CACFP reimburses home day care owners for food served to the children in their care.

Are you a licensed Child Care Provider? Or in the process of being licensed?

We invite you to join C.A.R.D. Child & Adult Care Food Program.  By joining CACFP, your Child Care business will prosper, and the children in your care will be healthier, happier, and more attentive.  Parents will be glad to know that their children are receiving nutritious meals.

C.A.R.D. sponsors approximately 350 licensed child care providers in 17 counties in northeastern Oklahoma to ensure that infants and children have healthy meals.  In these home-based child care businesses it is difficult to keep child care rates affordable and provide a variety of nutritious meals and snacks for children.  The Child & Adult Care Food (CACFP) Program offers childcare providers funding to purchase healthy food and assistance in menu planning for meals and snacks.  An average reimbursement for serving 2 meals and 1 snack per day for 7 children, the monthly reimbursement check would be approximately $700 per month and approximately $1,200 per month for 12 children.

C.A.R.D. monitors the childcare homes to ensure that high standards are met.  C.A.R.D.  educates child-care staff on portion sizes, improving food choices, preparation, and sanitation. 

Here are just a few advantages offered by C.A.R.D.’s CACFP

• Easy to use, Internet based software for submitting electronic claims.
• Choice of claim submission; Electronic, Online, or Manual Hard Copy.
• We offer direct deposit of your reimbursement money or check by mail.
• Yearly reimbursement statement for tax purposes.
• Friendly, knowledgeable staff to provide in-home training and support
• Yearly workshops held in numerous different locations.  Our workshops are informative and fun with lots of games and prizes.
• CPR and First Aid classes available.
• Monthly newsletter filled with information and recipes.
• Record keeping is a breeze with your choice of forms; computerized or our original easy-to-use forms.
• CARD website; online forms and online newsletter.
• 24 hour drop box at the Claremore office
• Free CARD address labels to make mailing easier.
• New providers receive free refrigerator thermometers.
• Other Community Action Programs available to you are Early Head Start, Home Head Start, Housing Assistance, Weatherization, Senior Nutrition and Emergency Services.
• Toll-free telephone number and e-mail addresses for contacting sponsor.

You will be supported by a Community Action Agency that has been serving Northeast Oklahoma since 1964!

CACFP is funded by USDA and the Oklahoma State Department of Education  Child Nutrition Programs Division.

For more information about C.A.R.D. Child & Adult Care Food Program please call 918-341-5000 ext. 315 or 1-800-662-1180 ext. 315