What is the Child Care Food Program (CCFP)?
The CCFP is a USDA Child Nutrition Program that assists licensed and TrustLine Registered child care providers with the high cost of feeding children. The primary goal of the CCFP is to provide nutritious meals and snacks to children who are in a day care home setting. Children who are introduced to good nutrition at an early age have proven to do better in school and go on to become healthier adults.
Who is Eligible?
Solano Family and Children Services offers the CCFP to licensed and TrustLine Registered child care providers who live in Solano, Napa, or Yolo county. It is available to all children from infant through 12 years of age, regardless of family income. Providers can claim their own children if they meet the income qualifications and complete the eligibility application. Provider’s children can only be claimed when child care children are present during the same meal.
What are the Benefits of Participating?
Providers who participate in the CCFP receive a monthly reimbursement check for providing nutritious meals and snacks to enrolled children. The reimbursement rates are set by the USDA and are based on a flat rate for each meal or snack served that meets the requirements. Providers can be reimbursed for up to two main meals and one snack per child, per day, or one main meal and two snacks per child, per day.
Providers also receive information and assistance regarding nutrition, meal planning and program requirements.
How do I Participate?
There is no cost to join. As a sponsor of the program, Solano Family & Children Services supplies all the required forms for documentation of daily menus and attendance. Providers will have the option of claiming online and submitting their claim electronically at the end of each month, or manually completing menus to submit by mail or drop off at our office.
The CCFP staff will visit each provider 3 times throughout the year to offer program guidance and training. These visits are on a drop-in basis, usually at meal time in order to observe a meal service and provide you with nutrition, health, and safety information.
Is there daily paperwork to fill out?
SFCS uses Minute Menu, an internet-based software system for providers to record their menus and meal attendance daily. It does away with having to write your menus down and mail them to us each month. Now with the click of a button, you submit your monthly claim! You can access your data online, so you won’t have to keep paper copies of your claims. The only forms you have to print out are the enrollment applications when new children enter your program.
If you have access to a computer that uses Internet Explorer, you can keep your data up to date on the Minute Menu website. Any computer will do: your personal computer, a borrowed computer, library computers, etc. You are given a log-in code and password that allows access to the website. (Apple computers cannot currently use this software.)
Those providers that do not have access to a computer can still claim using the Minute Menu scannable forms to log menus and meal attendance each day.
How do I get started?
It’s easy to join. As soon as you have your day care license or TrustLine Registration, and have at least one child in care, contact us and we will schedule an in-home training session with you. This usually takes about an hour and we bring all the information needed to get you started claiming that day!
Please give us a call at (707) 863-3950 or email us at info@solanofamily.org
Food Assistance Programs
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano distributes food directly to low income people. Learn about direct programs, member agencies and other resources for people who need food assistance.
Online information is available at www.foodbankccs.org 
Solano County
1891 Woolner Avenue, Suite 1
Fairfield CA 94533
707-421-9778
SNAP - The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Formally the Food Stamp Program - helps low-income people and families buy the food they need for good health. You apply for benefits by completing a State application form. Benefits are provided on an electronic card that is used like an ATM card and accepted at most grocery stores.
Online information is available at www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/
Fairfield/Suisun
275 Beck Avenue
Fairfield CA 94533
707-784-8051
Vacaville
354 Parker Street
Vacaville CA 95688
707-469-4500
Vallejo
355 Tuolumne Street
Vallejo CA 94590
707-553-5681
WIC - The federal Women, Infants and Children program (WIC)
Provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.
Online information is available at www.fns.usda.gov/wic/
Dixon
Dixon Family Services
155 N. Second Street
Dixon CA 95620
707-678-0717
Fairfield/Suisun/
Health and Social Services
Travis AFB/Rio Vista 2101 Courage Drive
Fairfield CA 94533
707-784-2200
Vacaville
Health and Social Services
233 Dobbins Street
Vacaville CA 95688
707-446-6346
Vallejo/Benicia
Health and Social Services
355 Tuolumne Street
Vallejo CA 94590
707-553-5381
