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National CACFP Week helps raise awareness of how the USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) works to combat hunger by bringing healthy foods to children in child care centers, homes, and after-school programs as well as adults in day care.

Child care centers across the country will mark National CACFP Week in March, acknowledging the many ways communities -- and children -- across the country benefit from the USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Food service procedures can be a little confusing when mixing age populations. The USDA provides guidance when preK students co-mingle with older students during school meals.