Add a New Participant [Feature]
This feature allows users to add new participants as they are enrolled in a family child care home, center or site.
To use this feature:
- Click on Participants & Rosters from the main site dashboard
- Select the existing household or create a new household
- If this participant already has a parent or guardian in the system, click on the name of the parent or guardian and skip to the section below on adding participant information
- If this is a new family, then click the box to Add New Household
- From here on out, remember:
- Add the household address.
- Add the parent/guardian
- Click the box that says Add Guardian
- Fill out the information
- Click the green "Save" button and you're back to the household page
- Add participant information
- Click the blue Add Participant button to open up a blank participant page
- Fill out the fields; required fields have a *
- Update participant status, if needed
- You can leave Participant Status alone if today is the first day the participant is in care.
- Otherwise, change the "start date" to the first day they were in care.
- Update participant program, if needed
- You can leave this section alone unless this is a participant who does not participate in the CACFP, in which case, you should switch their program to Non-CACFP.
- Otherwise, keep going!
- Set participant schedule
- Click the yellow Edit Schedule button and enter the participant's schedule.
- This will be the typical days and meals that will populate on the enrollment form.
- Click Save and you are back to the participant page
- Update infant feeding information, if needed
- If this is a child under 12 months, click the blue "Add" button and enter information about whether the parent is providing formula/breastmilk and/or solid foods
