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This includes relatives, friends , and neighbors caring forchildren enrolled in the CCAP. Within this group of license-exempt providers, child care must take place in the provider’s own home. The capacity set by CCAP must be followed.  \nBoth types of providers may claim their own children if there is a nonresidential child in attendance as long as they are eligible for meal benefits.  \nSponsor Eligibility  \nA sponsoring organization participating in the CACFP must be a not-for-profit or public organization and must have a signed agreement with the Illinois State Board of Education to provide reimbursement to licensed and license-exempt day care homes.  \nSponsoring Organization Responsibilities  \nSponsoring organizations are responsible for the administration of the CACFP for day care home providers.  \n• Sponsoring organizations are required to train, monitor, verify DCFS licensure or IDHS eligibility, evaluate provider menus and meal attendance sheets, and reimburse the providers under their organization.  \n• All sponsoring organizations must follow the same state and federal requirements and reimburse each qualified day care home based on the guidelines.  \n• Sponsoring organizations must offer nutrition education training and other assorted trainings , provide easy-to-understand documents , and offer professional training as well as personable monitors to visit homes for on-site home monitoring visits three times yearly.  \nDay Care Home Provider Responsibilities  \n• Licensed or license-exempt providers must contact one of the sponsoring organizations to participate in the CACFP and sign an agreement with the sponsor of choice.  \n• It is the provider’s responsibility to choose the sponsor who offers the best training, provides easy-tounderstand documents , treats the provider in a professional manner, and has good business practices. If you , as the provider, do not feel comfortable with the sponsoring organization that conducts the introductory visit, do not sign the provider agreement. Select another sponsor from the list of sponsoring organizations and go through their introductory visit procedure.  \n• Once a sponsor selection is made by the provider, an agreement must be signed with the sponsor of choice. The agreement will list the sponsor’s responsibilities and the provider’s responsibilities.  \n• Providers are required to maintain daily meal count records for each child enrolled and menus for each meal type claimed.  \n• Providers must annually collect enrollment forms from the parent/guardian.  \n• Offer the enrolled children in your home, birth through 12 years of age, meals and/or snacks that meet CACFP meal pattern requirements by serving all required food items in appropriate portion sizes. Reimbursable meals include breakfast, a. m. snack, lunch, p. m. snack, supper, and evening snack.  \n• Providers can claim no more than two meals and one snack , or two snacks and one meal per child per day.  \n• Attend all required","cbCaikjqVBCF8RFO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikjqVBCF8RFO","pdf",160477,"English","# Day Care Home Sponsor and Provider Fact Sheet\n## CACFP Overview and Program Administration\n## Day Care Home Provider Eligibility\n## Sponsor Eligibility and Responsibilities\n## Provider Responsibilities\n## Reimbursement and FY2024 Rates","[{\"question\":\"What is the CACFP program and who can receive meal reimbursements?\",\"answer\":\"CACFP is a USDA-funded program administered by the Illinois State Board of Education that reimburses meals served to children ages birth through 12 enrolled in a day care home.\"},{\"question\":\"What eligibility requirements apply to day care home providers?\",\"answer\":\"Providers must sign an agreement with a sponsoring organization before participating. 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