Childcare Mini-Grant Program

About

The Childcare Mini-Grant Program is available in Wyoming to support childcare centers in creating environments that encourage healthy childhood nutrition and physical activity. The program is made possible through a partnership between the Wyoming Department of Health, the Wyoming Head Start Collaboration Office through the Wyoming Department of Education, and CNP. 

Fast Facts

  • Funding opens January 23, 2023 for childcare centers that have not previously received mini-grant funding
  • Funding opens March 23, 2023 for childcare centers that have received previous funding. 
  • Amount: up to $500 per site
  • Purpose: Enable Wyoming childcare centers to adopt nutrition and physical activity supports in the Healthy Policies Toolkit. Funds can be used towards the purchase of materials and supplies that directly support nutrition and physical activity efforts at the childcare center.
  • Application materials:
    • Healthy Policies Scan
    • Mini-grant application

Apply

1. Complete the Healthy Policies Scan

The Healthy Policies Scan is a tool to understand best practices for nutrition and physical activity in childcare settings. It is not a test. Rather, it is a way to check off the practices your center is already meeting and identify practices your center would like to establish. 

All mini-grant applicants need to complete the scan tool. The proposal for funding (in step 2) should connect directly with practices not currently being met, but that were identified on the scan as making progress or interested in starting. 

Go to the scan

2. Complete the application

The application for the mini-grants is very short and includes an about section for the childcare center, a proposal for funding, and a space for sharing links to the items requested in the proposal. All applicants need to complete this application after completing the Healthy Policies Scan. 

Go to the application

* The Cent$ible Nutrition Program is funded by USDA SNAP-Ed and EFNEP. SNAP-Ed assists individuals and families who receive, or are eligible to receive, benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). EFNEP assists families and youth with limited resources  in acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behaviors necessary for nutritionally sound diets and contributes to their personal development and the improvement of total family diet and nutritional welfare. Visit our income-qualification page to learn more. 

This material was funded by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP. This institution is an equal opportunity provider. This material was funded by USDA’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program-EFNEP. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Issued in furtherance of extension work, acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Kelly Crane, Director, University of Wyoming Extension, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming Extension, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071.

The University of Wyoming is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.

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