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Nutrition and food-security groups seek state support for CACFP, Meals on Wheels and farmer-market programs
Summary
Childcare nutrition sponsors, older-adult meal programs, food banks and farm-to-family programs asked the Senate committee for targeted state funding to stabilize child and elder nutrition services and to preserve SNAP matching programs at farmers markets.
Representatives of child nutrition programs, older-adult meal services and statewide food security organizations told the Senate Health & Welfare Committee the state needs targeted investment to sustain nutrition programs that serve thousands of Vermonters.
Amy Fales, nutrition and education manager at BROC Community Action, asked the committee to appropriate $182,000 to the Agency of Education’s Child Nutrition Programs in FY26 to support sponsoring organizations that administer the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Fales…
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