Healthy Centers Healthy Kids
Is your Child Care Center on the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)?
Healthy Centers Healthy Kids is a program that helps Mississippi child care providers succeed in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
If your center is not in the CACFP or if you would like assistance with the CACFP, let Healthy Centers Healthy Kids (HCHK) help you:
· Get on the program and access funds that will pay for food, supplies and cooks
· Complete paperwork and successfully manage the regulations
· Succeed in the food program
About Health Centers Healthy Kids (HCHK)
HCHK is a sponsorship organization which acts as a liaison between the MS Office of Child Nutrition and low-income child care centers that wish to be a part of the USDA food program.
HCHK trains child care centers on the rules and regulations of the USDA Food Program, monitors the centers to help maintain compliance and submits the paperwork at the end of each month for reimbursement.
Are you interested in being in the USDA Food Program?
Fill out the form below and someone will contact you.
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CONTACT PROJECT DIRECTOR MARGIE VAN METER
601-665-0571
This Institution is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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HCHK Project Director Margie Van Meter
CONTACT MARGIE VAN METER
601-665-0571
margery.vanmeter@gmail.com
Margie Van Meter is the project director for Healthy Centers Healthy Kids. Prior to this role, Margie was responsible for collecting and organizing expenditure data in MLICCI’s Step Up Project, a grant from the Kellogg Foundation, to study the financial requirements necessary for centers to participate in Mississippi’s Quality Rating System. Before joining MLICCI, Margie was employed in the policy unit of the Office for Children and Youth, MS Department of Human Services, and also with a local child advocacy organization. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and an MBA in nonprofit management from Yale.