QCC Aids 90 GA Child Care Programs With Daily Meals and Snacks

More Than 4,300,000 Meals Provided to Children Across Georgia in FY2017

Quality Care for Children (QCC) today announced that two new Georgia child care programs are being sponsored for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). In 2013, as an effort to help child care providers deliver a better quality food program and aid children living in food insecure homes, QCC began sponsoring child care food programs across Georgia. Since then, QCC has grown its program to include 90 child care centers, providing more than 10,000 young children each weekday with consistent, nutritious and tasty meals and snacks while in their early learning environment.
“Hungry children are less focused and are sick more often, making it even harder for them to learn.” said Pam Tatum, president and chief executive officer for Quality Care for Children. “Our CACFP helps the child care program provide better meals and snacks with assistance to cover their food costs, which helps them purchase fresher, more nutritious foods that supports the development of these young children.”
Providing children with consistent and highly nutritious meals is critical to their development. Without proper nutrition, children lag behind their peers in cognitive development and often have poor health overall, including a higher chance at being obese. Many families who live in food insufficient households rely on child care programs for daily meals and snacks to supplement what their children eat.
Meals are available to all children enrolled in the program at no separate charge, helping to provide them with regular and nutritious meals daily at their child care program.
The newest early learning child care programs sponsored by Quality Care for Children are:
Trainers Childcare Center (Gwinnett County)
2341 Beaver Ruin Road, Norcross, Ga., 30071
Herrington Academy East (Gwinnett County)
3555 Lee Road, Snellville, Ga., 30039

The Child and Adult Care Food Program was established in 1968 by Congress to ensure children in licensed or approved daycare centers, settlement houses, and recreation centers were receiving nutritious meals.
Approximately 20 years later, following the passage of the Older American Act, new amendments allowed for participation by select adult day care centers, which initiated the name change to its current Child and Adult
Care Food Program name. Ten years later, the program was further updated to allow for “at-risk” afterschool programs and shelters housing homeless children to participate.
In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race,
color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.
Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.
To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:
(1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights 1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;
(2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or
(3) email: program.intake@usda.gov.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services, Child Nutrition Programs – Income Eligibility Guidelines for Free and Reduced-Price Meals are used to determine the rate that the center will be reimbursed for meals served in this program.
For more information regarding QCC’s sponsorship of Child and Adult Care Food Programs, please contact Reynaldo Green, Vice President of Health and Nutrition, at 404-479-4251.
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About Quality Care for Children:
Quality Care for Children (QCC) is Georgia’s leader in equipping parents and child care providers with the resources they need to receive and provide high quality, affordable child. The organization provides on-site consulting, training, business resources, and nutrition programs to child care programs and supports parents with a free referral service and tuition assistance for low-income families. Please visit www.QualityCareforChildren.org or call (404) 479-4181 for more information.
Media Contacts:
Sonia Fuller Jeff Ader
Sonia Fuller Communications Quality Care for Children
404-660-1261 404-479-4181
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