0.1 Welcome

Course title:
CACFP New Sponsor Training

Course ID:
ISBE-120

Length:
4 hours

Course description:
The CACFP New Sponsor Training is designed to provide initial training for those who are new to the CACFP or for participating sponsors with new staff. The training includes important topics such as Civil Rights, Meal Service Planning, Recordkeeping, Financial Management, Documentation, and Responsibilities, Maintaining a Nonprofit Food Service Program and Program Oversight.

Support:
This course is self-paced, not instructor led.

Requirements:
Access to the Internet and a valid email address.

Format:
This course requires no face-to-face classroom instruction. Lessons will be available via the course web site. You will complete the course lessons whenever it is most convenient for you. You may work on lessons at any time of the day or night on any day of the week. This course is estimated to take 4 hours to complete. The course web site will track the completion of each lesson and assignment. You will be able to exit the course without completing it and pick up where you left off at any time.

Learning objectives:

  • Define civil rights
  • Explain why civil rights are important
  • Understand who is required to have civil rights training
  • List the civil rights responsibilities of sponsors
  • Understand the meal service requirements in the CACFP
  • Identify requirements for accommodating special dietary needs in the CACFP
  • Summarize CACFP menu planning basics
  • Recognize the meal pattern requirements for the CACFP
  • Identify the minimum quantities of the required meal components by age group
  • Identify the records required to document institution and facility eligibility to participate in the CACFP
  • Identify the records that must be collected and maintained for participants in the CACFP
  • Identify the records required to support meals claimed for CACFP reimbursement
  • Identify the various miscellaneous records that must be maintained to document CACFP compliance
  • Understand the key elements of an effective financial management system
  • Identify expenditures that are claimed as operating costs
  • Identify expenditures that are claimed as administrative costs
  • Recognize the limits and conditions that impact allowable costs
  • Understand how claims are compiled, submitted and paid
  • Clarify what is meant by “nonprofit food service program”
  • Understand how a nonprofit food service program is determined
  • Identify the records required to document the nonprofit food service program
  • Understand what to expect if the nonprofit food service program can’t be documented
  • Distinguish between the various levels of program oversight in the CACFP
  • Determine when monitoring is required by sponsors of sites participating in the CACFP
  • Identify the factors involved in determining a serious deficiency
  • Understand how a serious deficiency impacts CACFP participation

Means of developing competencies:

  • Online presentations with voice narration and interactivity Workbook that complements online course content
  • Online resources available through internet links
  • Downloadable resources
  • Quizzes

Course completion requirements:
In order to complete this course successfully, you must complete all of the course assignments and score an 80% or higher on the final examination.

Workbook:
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If you choose to print the workbook it can serve as a good way to take notes with pen or pencil while viewing the presentations in each lesson.