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Now days everyone is a huge fan of Facebook.  We are always checking our news feeds, updating ourselves with the trending topics and seeing what our friends are up to.  Well it's official, Altoona Family Child Care Center has joined the Facebook family!!!  We can't wait to get networking with all of you. 

If you LIKE us on Facebook you will receive our most up to date promotions, updates on community events, weather closings, upcoming enrollment opportunities, educational events, activities to do at home, links to child friendly meals, access to exclusive content, and much much more!

Nutrition to Nurture By

Altoona Family Child Care Center is a strong advocate against childhood obesity and a strong supporter of nutritional growth.  We are a proud sponsor of the Child and Adult Care Food Program.


CACFP is a federally funded voluntary program that helps pay for the cost of serving healthy meals and snacks to participants in qualifying facilities.  The CACFP also improves quality of care and makes it more affordable for many low-income families.  Overall, wellness is an important part of providing quality care for children at Altoona Family Child Care Center.  We strive each and every day to make healthy and nutritional meals. 


Healthy eating and physical activity are two components of wellness that are encouraged by the CACFP.  Through resources and educational opportunities offered, we as providers can increase daily movement, plan healthy menus, and improve the overall nutrition and physical activity environments at AFCCC. 


In addition, CACFP participation:

• Provides funding to supplement the cost of healthy meals and snacks.
• Teaches children at an early age a healthier way of eating that will last a lifetime.
• Provides participants good nutrition which allows them to stay independent longer.
• Gives parents and caregivers confidence knowing that you are invested in the health and well-being of their children.
• Offers guidance in menu planning and recipe ideas.
• Offers technical assistance and consultation to assist in your program's success.

Overall; participating CACFP facilities serve complete, wholesome meals by following the meal patterns established by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).  Meal components and serving sizes are dependent on the age of the participants. 

The Fabulous World of Facebook

In class today I learned about "Facebook Privacy" and the what is available for "anyone" to see if you do not properly set up your Facebook privacy wall.  These security systems with in your settings of Facebook make it able for you to block users from seeing your page, your posts, your pictures or even sending you a message.




My current settings in my "Facebook Privacy" made it able for anyone to contact me as well as see my pictures. That is a little scary that just anyone could come and look at my page and pictures of my children.




As soon as I learned this I immediately changed the setting to lock up my wall.  I recommend that many of you do this as well.  There are so many people in the world that you do not need perusing your sight and looking at pictures of you and your family.

Tweet with Me

Altoona Family Child Care Center is proud to announce that we have joined the widely growing social media outlet, "TWITTER".


 AFCCC will be using this account to announce offers or events, promote new blog posts, or keep readers up to date with links to important news stories. 


We hope to reach a new audience and generate more popularity to our social media outlets.  We hope that this doesn't become a burden to any of our parents and will still offer our paper copies of our events and offers as well. 


Examples of "Tweets" that AFCCC will post:


Engaging Tweet- "Our Youngstar rating came through today and it is official, we are a 4 star center.  Click on this link to read about our Youngstar Program and how we were able to reach 4 stars."


Entertaining Tweet"  "


Informing Tweet "We have had 3 cases of strep throat this week at the center.  If your child is showing any symptoms we ask that you take them in to the dr for a strep test. "


EEI Tweet w/ hashtag "What are your feelings on Illness in Child Care? #sickatschool"


EEI Tweet w/mention "Weau has posted a great post about child care in Wisconsin @weaunews"


We are so excited for all of our families and potential families to start following us so check us out at https://twitter.com/altoonafamccc