2023 NCNC
The Ecological Approach to Family Style
EAT Family Style is an online professional development program that provides training for childcare providers to implement responsive feeding practices in childcare. Responsive feeding practices include role modeling and supporting children’s self-regulation to improve children’s dietary intake and promote a positive mealtime environment in childcare.
Read MoreAdvanced CACFP Meal Patterns
You’ve been participating in the CACFP for years now and feel that you know the meal pattern like the back of your hand. But do you? From food components to required serving sizes to substitutions and variations of the meal pattern by age groups, there is so much more to know than the basics. Test your knowledge as we cover advanced-level topics.Â
Read MoreFarm to Early Care & Education in the CACFP
Are you interested in Farm to ECE but unsure of where to begin? Discover how we assisted child care programs in two counties in North Carolina to implement Farm to ECE at their sites. Get our best practices for how to guide programs with attainable and sustainable strategies that have proven successful.
Read MoreCACFP Administrative Review Advice
Get tips, suggestions, and best practices to prepare for an administrative review. Discover how to find success, avoid findings, and communicate with the review team.
Read MoreMaintaining Employee Engagement & Organizational Support Remotely
Working from home became a widely used resource for agencies and organizations to maintain stability and productivity within the workplace during the pandemic. Yet, where are we now? What obstacles are we now faced with as a result of such flexibilities? What responsibilities are organizations now faced with when considering operational oversight, employee well-being and engagement, and agility?
Read MoreSerious Deficiency Intervention: Supporting Successful Changes
The serious deficiency process is not a one-size-fits-all approach to making lasting program change. Learn about an intervention style technical assistance model adopted by one state agency to provide additional support to help programs address their administrative and operational capacity to operate under CACFP.
Read MoreClean, Separate, Cook, Chill: Food Safety in Child Care
Ever wondered if you reheated that casserole to the right temperature or cooled that chili correctly? What’s the difference between cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting anyway? Get best practices to keep children and staff healthy and safe.
Read MoreBellevue School Lunch Updates and Impacts on Student Behavior
Discover how free lunch affects nutrition and how effective compostable utensils are at reducing food waste based on survey results of BSD students.
Read MoreExploring the Value of Mobile Produce Markets
Food access in America is unequal. Discover how mobile produce market programs are part of the solution to increasing affordable, fresh, and healthy food access to underserved communities.
Read MoreAvoid Processed Foods: A Nutrition Sound Bite or a Sound Nutrition Bite?
We hear “avoid processed food” (PF) often. Is that sound nutrition advice even if the basis of some PF categorizations is neither processing nor nutritional quality, but the presence of ≥6 ingredients or additives including nutrients? Wise PF choices build nutritious diets and optimize scarce resources including time and money.
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