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Texas utility: Open official Texas UNPS →. Texas-specific guides are labeled below.
Working toward your own CACFP agreement, preparing a renewal, or stuck on requested corrections? Find your next step.
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Explore application and renewal support →Texas application guide
See the Texas application process in one place. Find your stage, what you need to prepare, and what happens next.
Find your next application step →Understand what the financial viability review looks for and which records help explain your organization’s financial position.
Prepare for the financial review →Already participating and working on renewal? Start with the instructions and deadlines your state agency provides for your organization. The application roadmap covers new applications.
CACFP Solutions can help you work through an application, renewal, or requested corrections. Explore application assistance or book a call to discuss where you’re stuck.
Start with the guidance that matches your stage: understanding the review, organizing requested records, or responding to findings.
Texas review guide
Understand Texas review types, schedules, document requests, and the difference between findings and serious deficiency.
Understand the review process →Build a requested-records tracker, check the review period, identify missing evidence, and keep a submission record.
Organize requested records →Address each finding with actual corrections, evidence, responsibility, and a procedure to prevent recurrence.
Prepare a corrective-action response →Texas Financial Sampling Tool guide
Understand the Financial Sampling Tool, address missing historical support, and check expenses and the budget before review time.
Understand your Financial Sampling Tool →Understand income statements, balance sheets, ledgers, bank records, and the evidence behind the totals.
Understand your financial reports →Found an expense or budget difference while preparing your records? See what to do about an expense gap.
Want a practical gap check? Use the review-readiness self-assessment alongside the actual request. A checklist does not certify compliance or guarantee a review outcome.
Explore review preparation and corrective-action support, including its scope and client prerequisites. The preparation project is for qualifying existing monthly-service clients. If your notice includes serious deficiency or proposed termination, use the Serious Deficiency, Termination & the NDL guidance and follow the notice's deadlines.
Resolve expense and reimbursement questions, check the records behind your claim, and get help with the monthly work.
Includes Texas financial guidance
Identify missing support, check allowable costs and budget differences, and act on problems before the review.
Work through the expense gap →Texas independent-center checklist
Work through enrollment, eligibility, meal records, expense support, and final figures.
Check your month-end records →Texas UNPS guide
Enter and submit your claim in Texas UNPS, confirm its status, and locate payment information.
Follow the UNPS claim and payment guide →Explore claims-processing and ongoing support, including what your organization provides and submits.
Choose the guidance that matches your notice or current status. A serious-deficiency notice, proposed termination, and an NDL listing call for different next steps.
Understand the process, what to check in your notice, and how to organize your response.
Understand what happens after a notice →Review the records, meal claims, financial management and program duties that can lead to serious-deficiency findings.
See common serious-deficiency causes →Check the action proposed, who is named, and the appeal instructions and deadline before deciding how to respond.
Understand termination and your next step →Verify the listing and understand removal, outstanding debt, and the records to organize.
Understand NDL listings and removal →Explore paid termination and NDL assessment support for a review of your notices, findings, and prior corrective actions. CACFP Solutions is a private team of CACFP specialists; agency decisions and deadlines remain with the responsible authorities.
Evaluate your current sponsor arrangement, decide whether your organization is ready for its own CACFP agreement, or keep the program moving after a staffing change.
Use ten practical questions to evaluate records, claim reports, training, communication, and the division of duties.
Evaluate your current arrangement →Includes Texas application guidance
Compare the responsibilities and costs, check staffing and financial readiness, and understand the Texas application path.
Check own-agreement readiness →Locate records, arrange trained coverage, update responsibilities, and restore authorized access before the next claim.
Use the staffing handover checklist →If your financial records or application need work, explore financial readiness and application assistance, including the current scope and ongoing-support terms. Your state agency makes approval decisions.
Find the documentation that supports a food’s meal-pattern contribution and the portion you plan to serve.
Start with breaded meat and fish products. See when to use the Food Buying Guide, a recipe, a CN label or a manufacturer’s PFS.
Choose the documentation path →Use the USDA Food Buying Guide to understand food yields and meal-pattern contributions.
Explore the Food Buying Guide →Explore food distribution vendors and request documentation for the exact products you plan to serve.
Explore the vendor directory →Start with meal counts: when to record them, what staff should do during service, and how the records connect to your monthly claim.
Follow a practical classroom workflow, see family-style examples, and check daily records before preparing the claim.
Follow the meal-count workflow →Understand the difference between recording meals during service and reconstructing counts from attendance or memory.
Check meal-count timing →Ready to prepare the monthly claim? Check your month-end records before submitting.
If organizing meal records and preparing the monthly claim is taking more time than your team can manage, explore claims-processing and ongoing support to see whether it fits your program.