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Witness urges $182,000 for CACFP sponsors to keep meals available to Vermont family child care homes
Summary
Hunger Free Vermont told the House Education Committee that federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) access for family child care homes depends on sponsor organizations and recommended a $182,000 appropriation to the Agency of Education to support sponsors after two organizations dropped sponsorship in 2024.
Keeley Egan, the early childhood nutrition manager at Hunger Free Vermont, told the Vermont House Education Committee that appropriating $182,000 to the Agency of Education would help Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) sponsor organizations remain viable so family child care homes across the state can continue to serve federally funded meals.
Egan said the appropriation would be distributed by the Agency of Education to CACFP sponsor organizations as an incentive to participate. "Without CACFP sponsors, many children in Vermont would not be able to access nutrition in their early childhood education programs," she said.
The request came during the committee's discussion of the state's budget adjustment act. Egan and Hunger Free Vermont urged the committee to follow a recommendation from the advocacy group…
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