USDA's Team Nutrition provides numerous webinar series to further support CACFP providers, sponsoring organizations and State agencies and provide quality training. Practice what you've learned, answer scenario-based questions for a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Credit toward your CACFP Professional Certification.
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Join the USDA Team Nutrition for training webinars on hot topics related to the CACFP Meal Pattern requirements. All of these trainings count toward Specialty 1 or 2 for the CACFP Certification Program education requirements.
This webinar shows CACFP operators how to plan and prepare reimbursable meals and snacks for adult participants.
Este seminario web muestra a los operadores del CACFP cómo planificar y preparar comidas y meriendas reembolsables para los participantes adultos.
Watch On DemandThis webinar highlights the added sugars limit for breakfast cereals and how to identify cereals that meets this limit.
Watch On DemandThis webinar will highlight the new added sugars limit for yogurt and how to identify yogurt that meets this limit.
Watch On DemandThis webinar shows CACFP operators how to plan nutritious and appealing breakfasts that meet CACFP meal pattern requirements.
Este seminario web muestra a los operadores del CACFP a planificar desayunos nutritivos y atractivos que cumplan con los requisitos del patrón de comidas del Programa de Alimentos para el Cuidado de Niños y Adultos (CACFP).
Watch On DemandThis webinar highlighted resources, training materials, and frequently asked questions related to using ounce equivalents for grains.
Este seminario web muestra a los operadores del CACFP. Este seminario muestra diferentes herramientas para implementar las onzas equivalentes de granos que los operadores del Programa de Alimentos para el Cuidado de Niños y Adultos (CACFP) pueden usar para planificar comidas en sus sitios.
Watch On DemandThis webinar will show CACFP operators how to plan and prepare snacks for children and adults in their care.
Este seminario web les muestra a los operadores del CACFP cómo planear y preparar meriendas/refrigerios reembolsables para los niños y adultos en su cuidado.
Watch On DemandThis webinar will show CACFP operators how to identify store-bought combination baby foods that may be served at reimbursable meals and snacks to infants. Attendees will have a chance to submit questions to the presenters and check their knowledge through interactive polling questions.
Este seminario web muestra a los operadores del CACFP cómo identificar los alimentos combinados para bebés comprados en la tienda que se pueden servir en comidas y meriendas/refrigerios reembolsables para bebés.
Watch On DemandThis webinar shows Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) operators how to use the Nutrition Facts label to identify items that may be served at reimbursable meals and snacks.
. Este seminario web muestra cómo usar la etiqueta de información nutricional para identificar alimentos que se pueden servir en comidas o meriendas reembolsables.
Watch On DemandThis webinar shows CACFP operators how to credit single-serving packages of grains toward a reimbursable meal or snack.
Este seminario web muestra a los operadores del Programa de Alimentos para el Cuidado de Niños y Adultos (CACFP) cómo acreditar paquetes individuales de granos que cuenten hacia una comida o merienda/refrigerio reembolsable.
Watch On DemandThis webinar will include practical tips for how CACFP operators can meet meal pattern requirements while addressing a toddler’s developmental needs.
Este seminario web incluye consejos prácticos sobre cómo los operadores del CACFP pueden cumplir con los requisitos del patrón de comidas, mientas atienden las necesidades de desarrollo de un niño pequeño de 1 a 2 años de edad.
Watch On DemandBe in the Know!
Team Nutrition's webinar series on implementation of the changes in child nutrition programs.
The webinar provides an overview of the crediting updates resulting from the Request for Information and provides crediting technical assistance with hands-on practice specifically for tempeh and surimi.
Watch On DemandThe webinar will provide an overview of the CN Labeling Program with crediting updates resulting from the Final Rule: Child Nutrition Program Flexibilities for Milk, Whole Grains, and Sodium Requirements and the Request for Information, in addition to crediting technical assistance specifically for the CN Labeling program.
Watch On DemandThis webinar provides an overview of the crediting updates resulting from the Request for Information and provides crediting technical assistance with hands-on practice specifically for vegetable noodles and coconut.
Watch On DemandThe webinar provides an overview of the crediting updates resulting from the Request for Information for these foods and provide crediting technical assistance with hands-on practice specifically for Popcorn, Hominy, Corn Masa, and Masa Harina.
Watch On DemandThe webinar provides an overview of the crediting updates resulting from the Request for Information and provides crediting technical assistance with hands-on practice specifically for dried meat products.
Watch On DemandFood Buying Guide
Team Nutrition's webinar series on how to use the Food Buying Guide in child nutrition programs.
Trainers' Circle
These quarterly webinars will focus on tactics and techniques that trainers can use to empower program operators with the knowledge and skills needed to provide high-quality meals and snacks in the CACFP.
This webinar provides an interactive overview of Team Nutrition’s new resource, the CACFP Trainer’s Tools: Feeding Infants Kit. This kit includes a trainer’s guide, presentation slides and trainer notes, videos, and digital interactive games. Hear how these components help trainers deliver information on hot topics like developmental readiness, hunger and fullness signs, handling and storing breastmilk and infant formula, and much more!
Watch On DemandThis training will highlight effective training strategies used by the Kansas State Department of Education and resources from the Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN).
Watch On DemandState agency staff from Iowa, Massachusetts, and Nebraska will share experiences in developing and implementing online learning modules.
Watch On DemandThis webinar will spotlight interactive approaches used by the Maryland State Department of Education and the Texas Department of Agriculture to actively engage participants during in-person CACFP trainings.
Watch On DemandThis webinar shows tips for preparing and supporting children, training staff, and meeting CACFP meal pattern requirements to successfully serve meals “family style.” The Nebraska Department of Education also shares how they developed and utilized tools to train child care providers on family style meal service.
Watch On DemandThis webinar will help state agencies, CACFP sponsoring organizations, and independent centers provide training on using ounce equivalents instead of “servings” to determine amounts of grains. CACFP operators are required to use ounce equivalents for grains by Oct. 1, 2021 (“Delayed Implementation of Grains Ounce Equivalents in the Child and Adult Care Food Program Final Rule”). Webinar participants will learn about existing training tools and strategies available on grains ounce equivalents. Additionally, Oregon’s Department of Education will share how they used virtual training techniques to provide training for CACFP operators.
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