Children's Nutrition Connection Annual CCFP Online Training

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Annual Training Course Completion Rules


This *REQUIRED annual training is for owners/directors and/or the person responsible for CCFP meal service and record keeping at your center. 


*REQUIRED - At least one of the required Center Representatives must successfully complete this training by September 18, 2023 or it could result in the non-renewal of your center's CCFP Contract. 


Annual Training Modules

Module 1 - CCFP Overview & New Guidance


Booker Parry, CFM CCFP Manager


This two part module will touch on CCFP Annual Reminders, Tips for Filing a Successful Claim, Free and Reduced Meal Application, Meals You Can Claim, Do’s and Don’t for Online Record-keeping (CNCORK), What is a Milk Test, Allowable Milk Substitutions and CN Labels, Menus, CCFP and field trips, How Does Food Cost Factor Into the CCFP Program, Your Responsibility To Maintain Records Of CCFP Expenses & Receipts, Required CCFP Record-keeping , What Happens If You Are Out of Compliance?, What is a Corrective Action Plan (CAP), How You Get Reimbursed, Code of Ethical Conduct, Safety and Food Sanitation Practices.

Module 2 - Civil Rights



Civil Rights is important! As a participant in the CCFP, you are required to follow all aspects of this training in your business affairs as they relate to the CCFP.  Please pay careful attention to this training


Module 3 - E.M.A. Updates


Rita Wilson, CFM IT Manager

This module will go over the importance of “how to” and “why” you must collect Free & Reduced Meal Applications.  This is a timely module since your center should be collecting application for every child this month.  The Collection of Free and Reduced Meal applications is the most important activity you do as a CCFP site.  This one application dictates how much you get paid.  Not collecting a free and reduced meal application for a child results in you getting paid at the lowest rate and possibly getting a disallowance. The result of not collecting applications could cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars for every month you do not have applications collected for all of your children.  Collecting these application should be a PRIORITY for your center.   We could not have made this easier for you with E.M.A. (our Electronic Meal Application app).  With EMA Parents can complete the applications on their phone or at your center on a tablet and their application is qualified accurately based on the information they provide.   

Module 4 - Meal Pattern, Menus, Meal Service & Monitoring


Jennifer Heartcastle, CFM Nutrition Manager and Theo Valentin, CFM Technical Assistance Coach Supervisor 

In this module, you will review the heart of the CCFP program, “serving nutritious meals to every child in your care.”  This session will cover the components of a compliant meal and the requirements for serving compliant meals.  You will learn about the importance of following the meal pattern required by the USDA for the Child Care Food Program and how you should be serving meals in your center.  Ashleigh will take you through the importance of each meal component and documenting the meals you serve on the compliant menu form.  Theo will review how a compliant meal service is conducted and will go over the items we review when we monitor your site three times each year.  This informative session is a great refresher for everyone on your staff who assists in the preparation and serving of meals!

*Module 5: Infant Feeding - This module is mandatory for centers who serve infants.

About Us

Cornerstone Family Ministries


The mission of Cornerstone Family Ministries is to make a lasting and positive impact in the lives of economically disadvantaged children and their families in our community by nurturing young bodies, developing young minds, and fostering hope through Christ…One Child at a time.

Cornerstone Family Ministries is a leading sponsor in the State of Florida  for the USDA Child Care Food Program through the Florida Department of Health.  Through this program, we sponsor Child Care Centers in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco and Manatee  Counties.  Our CCFP sponsorship makes it possible for our center partners to serve the children in their care a free breakfast, lunch and snack each school day.  In addition, Child Care Centers under Cornerstone’s sponsorship are considered part of Cornerstone’s Children’s Nutrition Connection and receive connections to free and discounted resources, funding and educational opportunities and programing as well as prayer and technical assistance to help them stay relevant and sustain their center so they can keep their doors open for children who really need them so parents can go to work and school.

The mission of Cornerstone Family Ministries is to make a lasting and positive impact in the lives of economically disadvantaged children and their families in our community by nurturing young bodies, developing young minds, and fostering hope through Christ…One Child at a time.

Cornerstone Family Ministries is a leading sponsor in the State of Florida  for the USDA Child Care Food Program through the Florida Department of Health.  Through this program, we sponsor Child Care Centers in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco and Manatee  Counties.  Our CCFP sponsorship makes it possible for our center partners to serve the children in their care a free breakfast, lunch and snack each school day.  In addition, Child Care Centers under Cornerstone’s sponsorship are considered part of Cornerstone’s Children’s Nutrition Connection and receive connections to free and discounted resources, funding and educational opportunities and programing as well as prayer and technical assistance to help them stay relevant and sustain their center so they can keep their doors open for children who really need them so parents can go to work and school.