Child and Adult Care Food Program

The Child Care Food Program is a federally funded program that gives financial aid to licensed child care centers and care homes. The purpose of the program is to encourage child care centers, programs operating outside school hours, and child care homes to provide more nutritious meals to children twelve years of age and under in nonresidential day care settings.

Who qualifies for participation in the program?
Any public or private nonprofit institution providing nonresidential day care may be eligible to participate. 

Examples of eligible institutions include:

• Child care centers
• Sponsored day care homes
• Infant centers
• Preschool centers
• Head Start centers
• Even Start centers
• Outside-school hours care centers

Contact a sponsoring organization to find out how to receive the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Name of Sponsoring Organization	Counties Served	Telephone Numbers
Day Care Resources	All counties	(309) 263-0701
Association for Child Development	All counties	(708) 236-0863 or (800) 284-5273
Illinois Children’s Alliance	All counties	(708) 579-3366
Better Child Care	Christian, Logan, Macoupin, Mason, Menard, Montgomery, Morgan, Sangamon, Scott	(217) 245-0949 or (800) 659-0898
Child Day Care Association	Macoupin, Montgomery, Sangamon	(618) 345-6213 or (800) 418-3663

Or contact the Illinois State Board of Education, Nutrition Programs at 1-800-545-7892 or at http://www.isbe.state.il.us/nutrition/htmls/child_adult.htm .