Regional Nutrition Assistance, Inc. is a tax exempt, private, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in December 1990, and governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Regional Nutrition Assistance is approved to serve children and family day care providers in the nine (9) parishes of southern Louisiana. Regional Nutrition Assistance operates the Family Day Care Home Food Program which is part of the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

The program is administered by the United States Department of Agriculture, through the Louisiana Department of Education, Division of Nutrition Assistance. Regional Nutrition Assistance, Inc. mission is to educate children, family day care providers, and parents about good nutrition.

Regional Nutrition Assistance administers a federal Child and Adult Care Food Nutrition Program to family child care providers through the Family Day Care Home Food Program. They are committed to the philosophy of this federal food program that all children have the right to be well fed, regardless of income. This program promotes a life long healthy approach to eating for both children and parents and insures that children enrolled in Family Day Care Homes are receiving nutritionally balanced meals.

For more information, please visit http://www.regionalnutrition.org