Family Child Care Homes and the CACFP - Participation After Reimbursement Tiering (An Interim Report of the Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study)

by William Hamilton, Eric Stickney, and Mary Kay Crepinsek

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 established a two-tier structure of meal reimbursement rates for family child care homes participating in USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and mandated a study of the effects of that change on program participation and state licensing of child care homes. Using administrative data, this interim report finds that participation in CACFP by child care homes dropped 6 percent and the number of sponsoring organizations that administer the participating child care homes dropped 2 percent between 1997 and 1998.

Keywords: Child and Adult Care Food Program, CACFP, food assistance, child care

In this publication...

• Entire Report
• Front Matter (Title Page, Acknowledgments, Contents)
• Executive Summary
• Introduction, Background
• Data Sources
• Trends in CACFP Participation
• Trends in the Number of Licensed Child Care Homes
• Family Child Care Homes Who Leave the CACFP: Preliminary Survey Evidence
• Study Tasks in Progress
• Appendix A: Report of the Child and Adult Care Food Program: Form FCS-44
• Appendix B: CACFP Participation by State
• Appendix C: Licensed Family Child Care Homes by State
• Cover of Report