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Child and Adult Care Food Program—New Institutions Wanting to Apply

Welcome! We encourage you to participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Your institution may qualify to receive reimbursement to provide nutritious meals and snacks to the children in your care. CACFP offers reimbursement to many different types of programs. Programs may be operated by a public, private non-profit, or private for-profit organization. Private for-profit institutions are eligible, when they receive subsidized childcare payments for at least 25 percent of their Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) license capacity OR 25 percent of their total enrollment, whichever is less. Institutions may also use free/reduced-price applications to meet the 25 percent eligibility. For detailed program information, click on and review the following Fact Sheets to ensure your institution meets program requirements before attending the mandatory CACFP Orientation for New Institution Training session.

You may apply to participate in CACFP at any time during the year. There are five phases to the application process.

Phase 1—Attend a mandatory CACFP Orientation for New Institutions training where you will gain knowledge on CACFP policies and procedures and receive forms and documents for the application process and daily CACFP operation.

Register for the training by clicking on CACFP Orientation for New Institutions. You may register up to two people employed with your institution. Staff that should attend the training includes the owner of for-profit institutions or principal/key individuals of non-profit institutions responsible for the overall administration of the food program and an individual responsible for daily administrative activities should attend the training.

Phase 2—Complete the application packet received at the training and mail back to the Illinois State Board of Education. If you need additional copies of the application documents received at the training, click here.

Phase 3—Establish and implement the necessary Child and Adult Care Food Program procedures discussed at the CACFP Orientation for New Institution training.

Phase 4—Once your paper application packet is reviewed and considered complete by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), you will receive a Pre-Operational Visit Request Form. Complete and fax this document back to ISBE when you have ALL your CACFP procedures in place. An ISBE monitor will then call to schedule an appointment for your on-site Pre-Operational Visit. You have two attempts to successfully pass the Pre-Operational Visit.

Phase 5—After completing the Pre-Operational Visit successfully, you are given an approval date, you will be notified to complete the electronic CACFP application on the Internet.

Your institution will then be able to receive reimbursement for providing nutritious meals and/or snacks to the children in your care! Thank you for your interest in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

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