YourVoice.Now Summary
Designates the third week of March 2026 as National CACFP Week, recognizing a program feeding 4.5 million children.
The details
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) provided meals and snacks to more than 4.5 million children and 120,000 adults in 2025 — nearly 1.7 billion meals total — through child care centers, family day care homes, emergency shelters, and after-school programs. This resolution designates the third week of March 2026 as "National CACFP Week," recognizing how the program helps low-income families access nutritious food and improves the quality and viability of child care, especially in rural areas.
Congressional Summary
This resolution designates the week beginning on March 15, 2026, as National CACFP Week. It also recognizes the role of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) in improving the health of the children and adults in child care centers, family day care homes, emergency shelters, adult day care facilities, and after-school care in the United States by providing nutritious meals and snacks.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Status
- introduced
- Action
- Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1523; text: CR S1517-1518)
- Action Date
- 2026-03-22
- Date Added
- 2026-04-03
- Source
- Congress.gov →
Record 84604b61-653e-431a-a730-6352437ac187 · JSON
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