2022 Head Start

Explore tips to modify your menus, discover ways to build a nurturing environment around the kitchen, and discuss the positive impact that can be made by your chef. CACFP continues to support, raise and improve the quality of our Head Start centers around the country, which would not be possible without those who stir the pot.

Head Start has been around for five decades and counting. Its unique design offers comprehensive education, health, and nutrition services to low-income children. Come learn why nutrition matters in Head Start and how you can meet the nutritional needs of our country’s most vulnerable children.

Want to improve nutrition and agriculture education in the classroom? Learn how to educate your children with hands-on activities to explain how food is grown, why eating fruits and vegetables is important, and the importance of trying new foods.

The Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework lays out the skills, behaviors and learning experiences that all programs must offer for all children. Discover the natural learning experiences around meal times and how being intentional in the way we use these experiences can strengthen your programs approach to the HSELOF.

We will focus on the performance standards that govern child nutrition and how they align with the CACFP program to provide good nutrition to children in Head Start. Also, learn what’s new in the HS performance standards concerning child nutrition.