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Business Helps
Center Job Description Samples (courtesy of Head Start)
- Accounting Clerk/Accounts Payable
- Accounting Clerk/Accounts Receivable
- Child Development Specialist
- Executive Director
- Food Service Manager
- Food Service Worker
Tribal Relations
Walk Softly
and Listen Carefully - Building Research Relationships with Tribal Communities
Childhood Hunger
You CAN make a difference!
Websites:
- Ample Harvest: Connecting gardeners with excess food and local food pantries
- Canstruction: One can make a difference: A canned food drive with a twist
- Feeding America
- Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
- Joshua's Heart: Founded by a five year old boy who had a passion for helping fight hunger
- Montana Food Bank Network
- Montana KIDS COUNT
- Montana No Kid Hungry
- Partnership to End Childhood Hunger
- Share Our Strength
- The Howard G. Buffet Foundation: Working to improve the standard of living for the most impoverished in the U.S. and worldwide
- Ending Childhood Hunger by 2015: Strategies for Achieving the President's Goal
- Fact Sheet: Childhood Hunger in Montana Montana Food Bank Network
- The Good Farmer: Howard G. Buffett's Crusade to Eliminate Hunger in America
- Hunger in Our Schools Share Our Strength's Teacher Report
- Hungry in Montana Montana Food Bank Network
- Role of the Federal Nutrition Programs in Combating Overweight and Obesity
- When Children Go Hungry Montana KIDS COUNT
- Witnessing Child Hunger Firsthand & Tapping Federal Funding for Afterschool Meals
- The Y is 'Serving Up Summer' with the Walmart Foundation to Fight Child Hunger
Food Production
- 1 Cup Food Examples
- Food Buying Guide
- Food Production Records
- Food Production Record Templates (fillable electronically)
- USDA Food Buying Guide Online Calculator
Food Safety and Sanitation
- Food Allergy Book
- Food Safety Lessons (Courtesy of Iowa State University Extension)
- Food Temp Log
- Freezer Temp Log
- Fridge Temp Log
- Is it safe to eat food products beyond the "sell by" date?
- List of Sanitarians
- Thermometer Calibration Log
Infants
- Breastfeeding Friendly Child Care Centers
- Breastfeeding Resources for Child Care Providers
- (Courtesy of Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI)
- (Courtesy of Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI)
- Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI)
- Breastfeeding-Friendly Child Care (BFCC) materials for centers and families
- BFCC general information about the project and toolkit
- (Courtesy of the State of Indiana)
- (Courtesy of Minnesota Breastfeeding Coalition)
- (Courtesy of the State of Texas)
- Feeding Infants - A Guide for Use in the Child Nutrition Programs
- Infant Feeding Schedule
- Investing in Workplace Breastfeeding Programs and Policies
Menu Planning
- Creditable Food Guide - Version 2
- Easy Recipes
- Food and Nutrition Resources
- How to Choose Nutritious Cereals
- Improving Nutrition & Physical Activity Quality: Team Nutrition and Delware CACFP
- Meal Pattern Chart
- Menu Form Templates
- Menu Magic for Children: Menu Planning Guide for Child Care Homes (Courtesy of USDA and CACFP)
- Menu Planning
- Nutrition & Wellness Tips for Young Children: Provider Handbook for the CACFP
- Processed Foods
- Sample 20-day Menu
- Sample 20-day Menu (with no oven or stove)
- What's in Season? (Courtesy of USDA and Team Nutrition) Choosing fruits and vegetables that are in season is a great way to stretch food dollars.
Recipes
- CACFP Menu Planning Guide: Courtesy of USDA Team Nutrition, includes 120 recipes, 16 weeks of menus and shopping lists
- Child Care Recipes: Food for Health and Fun This 1999 USDA publication has been updated (8/23/2012) and includes recipes, tips and posters
- Cook's Training Recipe Booklets & Handouts: Montana CACFP
- Easy Recipes: Montana CACFP
- Florida Child Care Food Program Cookbook
- Healthy Recipes and Cooking Courtesy of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services offers recipes, searchable databases and more
- How to Make Cheese Sauce: Montana CACFP
- Hunger Free Colorado: Afterschool Meal Guide Provides 4-week cycle cooking menus and guides for two types of menus (cooking and non-cooking)
- Kids Love . . . Rice Bowls (Courtesy of USA Rice Federation)
- USDA Cookbook for Child Care Centers
- USDA Cookbook for Homes
- USDA Recipe Finder A searchable database of standardized recipes, quantity recipes, USDA recipes, recipes from the industry and more
Reviews
Snack Ideas
- Healthy Snack Guide For Your After School Program (Courtesy of CANFIT - Communities•Adolescents•Nutrition•Fitness)
- Snack Ideas
- Snack Sense (Courtesy of Illinois Nutrition Education & Training Program): menu planning tool to provide fun, healthy, and budget-friendly snacks.
Links
Center/Home Management
Food Service Management
- Ellyn Satter Associates
- Food Product Dating
- Montana Dietetic Association (Click on "About Us," then "Find a Dietitian.)
- National Food Service Management Institute
- SupermarketGuru: Smarter Shopping, Healthier Eating, Better Living
- USDA Child Care Recipes
- USDA Food Buying Guide Online Calculator
- USDA Food and Nutrition Service
- USDA Recipes for School-Age Children
- What's Cookin II: Recipes for Child Care Providers
Healthy Eating and Living
- Farmer's Markets in Montana - AERO (Alternative Energy Resources Organization)
- Let's Move!: America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids
- Let's Move! Child Care: A nationwide call-to-action to make positive health changes in children
- My Plate: Sponsored by the USDA
- Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry® campaign
- Team Nutrition: An initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service
- Team Nutrition Resource Library
Media Releases
The State agency issues a statewide media release on behalf of all institutions on a yearly basis. Each year the media release is published in six Montana newspapers: The Billings Gazette, The Missoulian, The Great Falls Tribune, The Helena Independent Record, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and The Butte Montana Standard. In 2013 we also began issuing media releases to the following six tribal newspapers: Apsáalooke Nation News, Char-Koosta News, Fort Belknap News, Fort Peck Journal, Glacier Reporter and Rocky Boy Tribal News.
2013 Annual Media Releases
2012 Annual Media Releases
2011 Annual Media Releases
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