Maryann Durrant (USBE):
We’ll now go over the training requirements on the food program. New organization owners and directors must either attend the in person new center training held at the Utah State Board of Education, or complete the Canvas training with passing grades on the quizzes and completion of the assignments.
All employees involved in any way with the food program at your center must be trained on the food program at least annually. There are 6 CACFP required key topics that relate to the operation of the food program and two additional required topics on policies. The six key topics that must be trained on are: 1) Meal Pattern and serving sizes, 2) Point of service meal counts, 3) Record Keeping requirements, 4) Reimbursement system, 5) Claim submission, and 6) Review procedures. The two additional required topics are: 1) Outside Employment Policy and 2) Civil Rights. Civil rights must be trained on whether or not the individual has anything to do with the food program at your organization.
As with everything else on the food program, if you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen. You’ll need to document that you’ve completed the training that you give to your staff. You will need to show that you trained new staff upon hire and for the annual training, you’ll need to keep a dated agenda, the list of topics trained on and an attendance sheet for those who attended. Our office has created forms for documenting the training of new staff as well as the annual training for all of your staff. Feel free to use these forms to document the training that you give.
Keeping your training documentation organized is important. It’s easy to misplace the training documentation if you don’t have a set place for it. You’ll want to keep the annual training documentation in a specifically marked folder, and the new employee training can either be kept in a specific folder or in each employee’s file, whichever works best for you.
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