1. Best Practices for Center Program Operations CACFP RT Conference October 27, 2014

2. Out of these five areas of compliance for CCFP center operations:  Menu Planning  Mealtime Environment  Documentation  Monitoring  Training Which area do you have the most success and best practices established and which area do you need more tools and resources?

3. Menu Planning and Mealtime Environment Best Practices: Cycle Menu and Family Style Meal Service Menu Features  5 week seasonal cycle menu  menu planning and purchasing for centers made easier with a cycle menu  whole grains, seasonal fresh fruit/veggies, no juice, lean meats, no fried foods, 1% milk (plain)

4. Menu Planning and Mealtime Environment Tools  Mealtime Rating Scale – centers self assess their mealtime environment for level of quality  Menu Customer Satisfaction Surveys – we survey children, parents, and teachers and use their feedback to create the menu

5. Menu Planning and Mealtime Environment Resources  Agency Healthy Environment Wellness Policies  Healthy Environment Tip Sheets  Meal Service Guidelines – support Family Style meal service and Division in Responsibility in Feeding  Seasonal Fruits and Veggies website – http://www.cuesa.org/eat-seasonally http://www.cuesa.org/eat-seasonally

6. At your tables discuss… What best practices, tools and resources do you utilize to ensure compliance in Menu Planning and Mealtime Environment?

7. Documentation Best Practice: Minute Menu CX Reasons why we switched:  Compliance  Accuracy  Efficiency (time savings)

8. Features of Minute Menu  Attendance/Meal Count by name and combined  Meal Benefit Form preprinted  Rosters  Menu Production Records calculated  Racial-Ethnic data  Office Error Reports  Scanning Technology (one point of entry)

9. Documentation Tools  Sample Attendance/Meal Count  Sample Menu Production Record  Sample Office Error Report

10. At your tables discuss… What best practices, tools and resources do you utilize to ensure compliance in Documentation?

11. Monitoring and Training Best Practices:  Monitor Report Corrective Action Plan  Follow up documentation  Narrative Notes  On-site Trainings  Learner-Centered trainings

12. Tools and Resources  monitor report (last page)  narrative notes  30 day follow-up form  training sign-in sheet  Minute Menu Program  Compliance Overview that explains each compliance area of the monitor report

13. At your tables discuss… What best practices, tools and resources do you utilize to ensure compliance in Monitoring and Training?

14. Each Table Group… From each of the four compliance areas present to the large group:  at least one new best practice  at least one new tool  at least one new resource

15. Reflection Individually take a moment to reflect on the best practices, tools, and resources that were shared today and write down at least two that you will use right away when you return to work.