The Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association (MLFCCA)
- a non-profit organization that is the statewide Family Child Care Provider
Association and voice for the child care community.
Training is an important
part of the Child & Adult Care Food Program for licensed family child care
providers. Mandatory Training is a training component that is required by the
USDA for every licensed child care provider participating in the CACFP. The
purpose of this training is to teach providers the basics of the Food Program.
Each provider will receive the ‘General Policies and Procedures’ manual in the
pre-approval book which will provide in-depth information.
Topics within the
Mandatory Training include:
Infants and Infant Meal
Pattern Requirements
- Meal Pattern/Formula
-
Reimbursable Infant Food
Regular Meal Pattern
Requirements
- Meal Pattern
- Meal Counts
- Split Shifts
- Meal Codes
Record Keeping
Requirements
When To Submit Your Claim
Reviewing Your Claim
Reimbursement
Mandatory training is
completed at a home visit with your monitor between October and January (for
each fiscal year). New providers will receive this training at their second (28
day) visit and then each year.
Nutrition Training Opportunities
MLFCCA is committed to
providing child care providers with current nutrition topics which are
specifically targeted to the child care field. This nutrition training is
optional and can be completed any time during the year as a two-hour in-home
training that may count toward your county/state licensing requirements. Check
with your licensor to see if this training will count for those licensing hours
since some licensors may not accept home trainings.
Other options that are
available for nutrition training are:
- Community Education
classes - these must be Nutrition-related with a practical application towards
childcare
- Child Care Association
Meetings - nutrition/foods topic presented by a qualified instructor
- College courses with a
nutrition unit
- Other nutrition training
options are available at www.mnstreams.org
Be sure to send a photocopy
of the Certificate of Attendance if you attend a training.
MLFCCA Food Program
Nutrition Trainings 2008
MLFCCA will bring nutrition training to
your area. The following
Nutrition Education
training Classes are available to Licensed Family Child Care groups and
Neighborhood Associations...
“Risky
Business”
Eschericha coli, Listeriosis, Salmonellosis and
Staphylococcus all add up to Risky Business.
These common food borne illnesses can cause major problems in a child
care environment. During this
workshop, we will learn about bacteria, work in teams, use an ultraviolet light
and a rubber chicken. Food safety is
an issue that you as child care providers hear a lot about.
We will be reviewing many food safety guidelines that will enable you to
be more effective at your job of providing a safe environment for children.
Fats
“Eat a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet”, most of us have
heard this simple recommendation so often over the past two decades that we can
recite it in our sleep.
Unfortunately, this simple message is now largely out of date. Children and
adults need fats in their diets. In
this class we will identify different types of fats and how they have a varied
and admittedly confusing effect on health and disease.
We will also look at the Nutrition Facts food labels as an important
source of information on fats. In
this class we will also review commonly served foods in childcare
and look at substitutions in making them more healthy and nutritious for
the children.
Setting a Healthy Snack Policy
Food is fuel for the human body.
Discovering how food builds
our bones and muscles, aids our organs, and supplies us with energy is important
in feeding children.. A national
survey of toddlers’ diets found that lunches and snacks eaten at childcare were
significantly more nutritious than lunches and snacks eaten elsewhere.
Did you know that meals at childcare were higher in calcium, phosphorus,
magnesium, vitamin D, potassium and riboflavin, compared to meals eaten at home
or away? Learning aids, resources,
and recipes/menus will be available at this class.
MyPyramid (Nutrition 101)
The Food Guide Pyramid and the U.S. Dietary Guidelines
are two tools developed to help promote healthy eating habits.
MyPyramid emphasizes eating a variety and balanced amount of foods
everyday along with exercise. This
is an important message, and we each spend a lifetime making choices about the
food we eat. Children, first and
foremost though need to have access to enough healthy food.
They need to know that food is fun and eating can be an enjoyable
experience. Eating habits are
formed during the early childhood years and last a lifetime.
Good eating habits do not just happen; they must be learned.
As adults, we need to provide them with food and information so that they
can grow to make healthy choices for themselves, at least most of the time.
The
Importance of Breakfast
Did you know any child who skips or does not have
access to breakfast can suffer learning and health problems?
Did you know attention, attendance and achievement improve with
breakfast? And, well nourished children have less behavior problems?
You as a childcare provider are in a unique position to comprehend the
scope of the importance of breakfast.
Promoting the importance of breakfast will help ensure that your
childcare children are prepared for their day.
In this class we will discuss
important nutritional needs that are met by having breakfast, available
resources, and healthy easy menu ideas.
Eating habits developed during childhood have the potential to last a
lifetime
Food Allergies
For many of us, food is more than a daily necessity.
We derive pleasure from eating and nurturing our children with healthy
food. However, food can cause upset
for many reasons. This can range
from intolerance to allergy. For
most people, allergies are just an inconvenience.
But according to the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious
Disease, they are a major cause of disability in the U.S. In fact, it has been
estimated that allergies account for the loss of two million school days per
year. In this class, we will define
the difference between allergies and food intolerance,
discover which foods children tend to be more allergic to and hidden
dangers in many common foods.
Children, Science and Nutrition
People often think of science as learning facts about
the world around us, others may think of science as “the having of wonderful
ideas”. This latter view of science
matches the characteristics of young children as learners.
Young children are naturally curious and passionate about learning.
In their pursuit of knowledge, they’re prone to poking, pulling, tasting,
pounding, shaking, and experimenting.
“From birth, children want to learn and they naturally seek out problems
to solve”. Children are natural-born
scientists. We want to encourage you
through hands on science activities to make science an everyday occurrence.
Discover the Possibilities w/Cooking
Do you struggle
with serving the same foods every day for breakfast, lunch and snack?
This class will explore freezer cooking methods, mix ahead mixes and
crediting those combination meals.
There will be baking hints, ingredient substitutions, avoiding trans fats, along
with cooking and feeding infants
Certificates
Provided for
all Trainings
The mission of the Minnesota
Licensed Family Child Care Association is to support the highest standard of
care for children in licensed family child care homes through education,
resources, recognition, and advocacy; while acknowledging the diversity of
licensed family child care providers
For more information please contact:
Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association
Cathy Johnson, Nutritionist
1821 University Avenue West, Suite 324 S
Saint Paul, MN 55104
651-636-1989 ext. 24 or 1-800-652-9146
cathy.johnson@mlfcca.org
Fax #: 651-636-9146
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