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Videos

A whole month of the food program, narrated start to finish.

The videos are grouped by program.  Each one follows a demo sponsor through a real month, shown with one state's forms, and lists the other states where ChildWatch works the same way.  Your state's own forms are set up for you when you start.

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Overview

ChildWatch in 90 seconds

What ChildWatch does for food program sponsors and centers, and the early partner pilot.

Sponsors of child care centers

Daily counts at the table, menus and records, monitoring, edit checks and the monthly claim, all the way to the payment.

Shown with Nebraska's forms

Sponsor of child care centers

Daily meal counts, weekly menus and records, infants on their own records, the for-profit 25% test, monitoring, and the claim keyed from the state's own sheets.

Also covers: Tennessee, Iowa, Georgia and Alabama.  Same steps; your state's own forms are set up for you.

Shown with Tennessee's forms

Sponsor of child care centers

Reviews on the state's own forms, infant records, food costs, the claim calendar, the claim keyed from a sheet in the state form's order, and claim to cash.

Also covers: Nebraska, Iowa, Georgia and Alabama.  Same steps; your state's own forms are set up for you.

Shown with Florida's forms

Sponsor of catered child care centers

A blanket catering contract, deliveries and deficiencies, the milk audit, food costs, edit checks and Florida's claim.

Shown with Texas's forms

Sponsor of centers and at-risk afterschool

Claiming percentages, TDA's own forms, food costs, a meal watched at every review, and the claim on TDA's clock.

Shown with California's forms

Sponsor of centers and at-risk afterschool

Each center paid the way it chose, the state meal supplement on the claim, a review at every site, and the claim on CDSS's clock.

Shown with Arizona's forms

Sponsor of centers and at-risk afterschool

Centers priced on attendance, ADE's two-hour meal rule, a review at every site, and the claim on ADE's clock.

Shown with North Carolina's forms

Sponsor of centers and at-risk afterschool

The blend rate, the state's drinks list on every menu, a review at every site, and the claim on NCDHHS's clock.

Sponsors of family child care homes

Each home's tier on its own evidence, meals counted at the table on the provider's phone, home reviews, the claim, and paying each provider.

Shown with Nebraska's forms

Sponsor of family child care homes

Tiering, infant records, home reviews, the claim keyed into the state's system, and paying each provider.

Also covers: Iowa, Georgia and Alabama.  Same steps; your state's own forms are set up for you.

Shown with Iowa's forms

Sponsor of family child care homes

Homes, tiering, the three reviews a year, the claim keyed into the state's system, and each provider's remittance.

Also covers: Nebraska, Georgia and Alabama.  Same steps; your state's own forms are set up for you.

Shown with Florida's forms

Sponsor of family child care homes

Tiers, the provider's phone at the table, infants, home reviews and Florida's worksheet.

Shown with Texas's forms

Sponsor of family child care homes

Tiers and TDA's H1659 notice, the provider's phone at the table, home reviews and paying each provider.

Shown with California's forms

Sponsor of family child care homes

Tiers on their own evidence, TrustLine providers, the provider's phone at the table, and the state supplement shared with providers.

Shown with Arizona's forms

Sponsor of family child care homes

Every kind of Arizona home on its own papers, tiers, the provider's phone at the table, and paying each provider.

Shown with North Carolina's forms

Sponsor of family child care homes

Tiers on their own evidence, the state's meal-time and drinks rules, the provider's phone at the table, and paying each provider.

At-risk afterschool

Snacks and suppers after the school bell, check-in at the door, counts at the table and the claim.

Shown with Georgia's forms

At-risk afterschool and centers

The afterschool roster, PINs at the meal line, the school bell on the claim check, supper and snack counts, food costs and the claim keyed from the state's sheets.

Also covers: Nebraska, Tennessee, Iowa and Alabama.  Same steps; your state's own forms are set up for you.

Head Start and Early Head Start

Head Start statements in place of income forms, catered meals, counts on the tablet and the claim.

Shown with Iowa's forms

Head Start grantee with catered centers

Head Start statements, catered meals, counts on the tablet, food costs and the monthly claim keyed into the state's system.

Also covers: Nebraska, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.  Same steps; your state's own forms are set up for you.

Short feature videos

One feature at a time. These work the same way in every state ChildWatch supports.

Every state

Disallowed meals, start to finish

How a disallowed meal is found or entered, decided, told to the provider, and taken out of the claim, the payouts and the reports.

Every state

Food costs and the nonprofit check

Each center's food-service receipts, and the monthly check that the food service runs as a nonprofit.

Running a child care center

For a center's own business, with or without the food program.

Every state

Running your center

Online enrollment, attendance and ratios, tuition billing and payments, the family app, and your staff, in one system.

Is my state covered?

Pick your state to see what's set up for it and which videos show your program.

Alabama: yes

Set up: ALSDE's forms, the claim prepared for the ALSDE CNP portal, and Alabama's claim calendar with its reminder by the 20th.

Arizona: yes

Set up: ADE's forms, centers priced on claiming percentages from attendance, ADE's two-hour meal rule, every kind of Arizona home, and the claim worksheet for CNPWeb.

California: yes

Set up: CDSS's forms, each center's choice of actual counts or the fixed percentage, the state meal supplement, CDSS's meal-time and drink rules, TrustLine providers, and the claim worksheet for CNIPS.

Florida: yes

Set up: Florida's CCFP forms, catering contracts on Florida's terms, the milk audit, and the claim files for MIPS, for centers and for homes.

Georgia: yes

Set up: DECAL's forms, Georgia's thirty-day claim deadline, and ATLAS keying sheets for afterschool sites and centers.

Illinois: yes

Set up: the WINS "Batch Daily Meal Counts" claim file for centers, built from your counts.  Illinois's own ISBE forms are being added now.
  • Closest video for centers: Nebraska centers.  The steps match until the claim, which in Illinois goes to WINS as an upload file instead of being keyed.

Iowa: yes

Set up: Iowa's forms, Head Start statements, and the claim figures for IowaCNP.

Nebraska: yes

Set up: NDE's forms, including the 28017 claim sheet for every center, and Nebraska's claim deadline.

North Carolina: yes

Set up: NCDHHS's forms, the blend rate for centers, the state's meal-time and drinks rules, and the claim worksheet for NC CACFP Connects.

Tennessee: yes

Set up: TDHS's forms, including the H-S 3069 claim and the review guide, and the TIPS keying worksheet.

Texas: yes

Set up: TDA's forms, centers priced on claiming percentages, at-risk meal times from the school bell, and the center claim file TDA publishes.

Ask us: we add states quickly

ChildWatch follows the federal CACFP and SFSP rules everywhere, and we add a new state's forms, deadlines and claim format as part of getting started.  Tell us your state and program, and we'll show you what that looks like.

Not on the food program?  Running your center covers enrollment, billing, attendance, staff and the family app.  You can also try it yourself with a private demo account, or see business management and family eServices.

Ready to try it with your own program?

Join the early partner pilot and we'll set ChildWatch up with you, bring your records over, and support your team while you run it for real.  Want to click around first?  Try it yourself with a private demo account for your state, filled with sample sites, children and meals.

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