{"id":3253,"date":"2024-06-05T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2025-02-24T03:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:07:26","slug":"home-grown-collaborates-with-partners-and-providers-to-develop-detailed-comments-to-usda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/home-grown-collaborates-with-partners-and-providers-to-develop-detailed-comments-to-usda\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Grown Collaborates with Partners and Providers to Develop Detailed Comments to USDA","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a proposed rule and opened a 90-day public comment period on one, very large, aspect of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): the serious deficiency process. In response, <a href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Home-Grown-final-letter-5.21.24-1.pdf\">Home Grown collaborated with partners and providers to develop detailed comments to USDA<\/a> regarding the proposed rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/final-sign-on-letter-5.21.24-1.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/final-sign-on-letter-5.21.24-1.pdf\">Thirty-six national organizations<\/a> representing early childhood educators in family child care, child care centers, Early Head Start, Head Start, and others serving millions of children in care joined Home Grown in an additional letter. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/Relevant links: https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/rules-revisions-for-cacfp-offer-opportunities-to-improve-program-accountability-and-equity\/\">shared goal<\/a> is that children, families and caregivers receive the health, economic and food security investments needed to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, we share USDA\u2019s commitment to improving the serious deficiency process as a crucial step to ensuring children can access healthy meals and snacks in child care from providers and CACFP sponsors who they trust and rely on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Home-Grown-final-letter-5.21.24-1.pdf\">Read Home Grown&#8217;s Final Letter<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/final-sign-on-letter-5.21.24-1.pdf\">National Partner Sign-On Letter<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Grown is collaborating with partners and child care providers to develop detailed comments about the Child and Adult Care Food Program to the USDA. <\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":3258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"resource-categories":[63,53,52,51],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","resource-categories-cacfp-hunger","resource-categories-family-child-care-fcc","resource-categories-family-friend-and-neighbor-ffn","resource-categories-policy"],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"resource-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-categories?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}