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State funding request seeks $182,000 to shore up CACFP sponsors and keep family childcare programs running
Summary
Presenters asked an appropriations committee for a $182,000 state appropriation to close an administrative funding gap that has forced sponsor organizations out of Vermont’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), risking participation by family child care homes and meals for children.
Presenters asked an appropriations committee to fund a $182,000 state appropriation intended to close an administrative funding gap that sponsoring organizations say is forcing some sponsors to stop administering the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) for family child care homes.
The request, introduced by an unidentified presenter, aims to subsidize sponsoring organizations that serve as intermediaries and fiscal agents for CACFP. The presenter said there are 203 family child care homes that participate in CACFP and that only three sponsoring organizations remain in the state: Brock Community Action, Capstone Community Action and Winston Prouty Center for Child Development. "If we continue to lose sponsoring organizations like we did in 2024, we'll just reduce our capacity for these homes to be able to participate in the program at all," the presenter said.
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