Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)

The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers, Inc., (FOCH) is a New York State-contracted sponsoring agency of the federally funded Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) — a nutrition education and meal reimbursement program helping providers serve nutritious and safely prepared meals and snacks to children in licensed child-care settings. Through this program, we directly support a network of 275 Group and Family Child Care providers for whom we administer reimbursements and deliver nutritional training and other technical supports. These providers together serve approximately 2,450 children in the City of New York. As a CACFP sponsoring agency, FOCH ensures that all meals served by participating providers meet minimum guidelines established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). We also deliver the technical support and administrative oversight required to ensure that providers in our network consistently meet the federally mandated nutritional standards of the program and obtain timely reimbursement for the expenses they incur.