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Introducing CAPPA's 2017-18 Board of Directors
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CAPPA is excited to announce to the field, our 2017-18 Board of Directors:
Rick Richardson
Child Development Associates
Karen Marlatt
Valley Oak Children's Services
Beth Chiaro
Child Care Resource Center
LaVera Smith
Supportive Services Fresno
Martin Castro
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation
Jeffrey Moreira
Crystal Stairs, Inc.
Public Policy Co-Chair
Phillip Warner
Children's Council San Francisco
Trudy Adair- Verbais
Santa Barbara County Education Office
Tina Barna
Choices for Children
Abby Shull
YMCA Childcare Resource Service
Amanda Al Fartosi
KinderCare Education
Jeanne Fridolfs
Community Resources for Children
Mike Michelon
Siskiyou Child Care Council
Marco Jimenez
Central Valley Children's Services Network
San Mateo 4Cs
Michelle Graham
Children's Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County
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EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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August 11, 2017
Subject: Revised Family Fee Schedule
July 26, 2017
July 21, 2017
July 12, 2017
July 12, 2017
Manual Letter EAS 17-05 includes revisions to the CalWORKs regulations as a result of the repeal of the Maximum Family Grant (MFG) rule. These amended regulations are effective June 19, 2017.
Manual Letter EAS 17-06 includes revisions to the CalWORKs regulations regarding eligibility for pregnant women. These amended regulations are effective July 1, 2017.
July 6, 2017
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ubject: State Median Income(Initial Certification)
Subject: Graduated Phase-Out (Recertification)
Subject: Updated Income Rankings
June 29, 2017
and additional information regarding the implementation of early care and education budget provisions.
May 15, 2017
May 9, 2017
May 8, 2017
May 5, 2017
Transfer of Families into a California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Stage 2 Program
May 5, 2017
The following documents have been revised and are available
HERE.
1) April 26, 2017 PSE Presentation Webinar Slides
2) EESD Form 4001 Instructions for Program Review Instrument
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August 2017 Featured Agency of the Month!
Child Development Associates, Inc.
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Child Development Associates (CDA) is a community-based, non-profit agency in San Diego that has been providing child care and development services since 1974. CDA was founded by a single mother struggling to pay for child care for her four children while working and pursuing a college degree. Her inability to get quality child care assistance inspired her to create CDA. What started as one small child care center serving 24 children, is now a multi-service agency supporting thousands of working parents with child care assistance, operating three high-quality child development centers, and a Child Care Food Program. CDA's mission is to encourage and support the success and well-being of children, families, and child care providers.
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CAPPA Volunteer Opportunities
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Interested in participating on a CAPPA Committee?
Based on outcomes from the CAPPA board retreat, we have some volunteer opportunities we hope you consider. They include:
Public Policy Committee
(Standing Committee) - reviews actions of subcommittees and provides staff input on legislative positions and budget.
Subcommittee 1 focused on "big picture" policies and changes needed to be worked on within the next three years. This subcommittee will be chaired by Jeff Moreira from Crystal Stairs.
Subcommittee 2 focused on more immediate needs. This subcommittee will be tasked with developing language to support our field realizing 12 month eligibility, supporting CDE with MB content and feedback. This subcommittee will be chaired by Phillip Warner from Children's Council of San Francisco.
Membership Committee
(Chair) Abby Shull from the YMCA Childcare Resource Service; This committee will support the continued development of securing member benefits. Additionally, this committee will help develop and identify the trainings, best practices and materials needing to be put together to help our agencies.
Please email CAPPA if you are interested in participating in any of these committees.
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Is Your Organization Hiring?
Post your job announcement here for thousands to see!
There is no charge for CAPPA members.
Non-members will be charged a fee of $75.
Please
email us
your posting!
Children's Council of San Francisco
Solano Family & Children's Services
Child Action, Inc. Sacramento
YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, North Valley Family YMCA
YMCA Metropolitan Los Angeles
Child Development Inc. is Hiring! See the Recruitment Flyer
Here.
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Burnout Busters:
Care for the Caregiver
CAPPA Member Benefit
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If interested, you can also sign up for an Amazon Business account for free. This is similar to a Prime account and will give you free 2-day shipping. You can learn more
Here.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you for your support!
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Highlights of 4Cs of Alameda County's programs and services featuring 4Cs' families, child care providers, staff, and supporters.
If you have news to share or an event you want added to CAPPA's website Calendar,
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Support Our Field & Communications
Become a CAPPA Monday Morning Update Partner!
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Our Monday Morning Update supports our Early Learning & Child Care field with timely information about what is going on in California and nationally; as well as dates to be aware and upcoming events.
Our weekly (50 times per year) Monday morning distribution is to more than 4,000 federal and state local agencies, resource and referrals, contractors, legislators and their staffs', centers, parents, providers, state departments and advocates.
To help support the continuation of this resource and or advertise in the Monday Morning Update, click
HERE.
You can also make a donation to CAPPA and CAPPA Children's Foundation HERE.
The Children's Foundation is a non-profit organization (501(c)3), Taxpayer Identification Number is
03-0521444. Your generous donation is tax deductible.
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The CAPPA Board
has made it a priority to support our field with a coordinated calendar to note upcoming statewide conferences, federal conferences of relevance, CDE and DSS stakeholder meetings and legislative and budget deadlines and hearings.
- Click here to see the calendar.
- If you have news to share or an event that you would like added to CAPPA's website calendar, let us know!
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California
This week, both the Senate and Assembly will have floor sessions on Monday and Thursday. All policy bills must pass out of fiscal and policy committees by this Friday, September 1, 2017. From September 5 - 15, only Floor sessions will meet.
Bills of interest to the field that are still active in the process:
- AB 273 (Aguiar- Curry) - Child care services: eligibility. This bill would include in the area relating to need, as a requirement that may be satisfied for purposes of eligibility, that the family needs the child care services because the parents are engaged in an educational program for English as a second language learners or to attain a high school diploma or general educational development certificate.
- currently on suspense in Senate Appropriations
- AB 603 (Quirk- Silva) - This bill would require the California Department of Education to provide to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature cost estimates and system analysis for alternative payment programs to develop an electronic timesheet process for the monthly attendance record or invoices, as provided. The bill would require on or before January 1, 2019, an alternative payment program to establish a program of electronic banking for payments made to licensed or license-exempt child care providers that have a contract with that alternative payment program, as provided. This bill would require APPs provide written and/or electronic notice to a child care provider of any changes to service.
- currently on suspense in Senate Appropriations
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AB 1106 (Weber)
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This bill will allow allocated monies to support working families with child care, to be distributed over a longer period of time. Additionally, the proposal will allow active military personnel to not have their basic housing allowance considered as part of their income when they apply for a child care subsidy. (CAPPA sponsored bill)
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*CAPPA has elevated this bill as a high priority bill.
This bill would establish specific standards for the use of personal service contracts by counties including, but not limited to - requiring the county
to clearly demonstrate that the proposed contract will result in actual overall costs savings to the county
and also to show that the contract does not cause the displacement of county
or city
workers, require the to conduct an audit of contracts for personal services in excess of $100,000 annually to determine whether cost savings have been realized and would require the contractor to reimburse the county for the cost of the audit. The bill also would impose additional disclosure requirements for contracts exceeding $100,000 annually.
Click HERE to read CAPPA's letter of opposition.
NOTE: Upcoming Appropriation Hearings
- Monday August 28, 2017 - SEN Appropriations @ 10:00am
- Friday, September 1, 2017 - ASM Appropriations Upon adjournment of Session
- Friday, September 1, 2017 - SEN Appropriations - Suspense - For Vote Only - Upon adjournment of Session
for more detail on specific bills being heard.
Below are links to other organizations that are tracking legislation that may be of interest to you.
Click here
to see all of the legislation that has been identified to be of interest to our field. You can find fact sheets and sample letter templates when available. On this page, CAPPA also will be noting legislative hearings of interest to our field. To track and/or review legislation or to create your own tracking list,
click here.
To watch live coverage of the Assembly and Senate click here.
Click here to see the upcoming calendar of legislative deadlines and other field meetings. CAPPA is offering to host a field calendar to help us all better coordinate our conferences, trainings, and meetings. If you would like to add to the calendar, email CAPPA.
Learn What Federal Budget Cuts Could Mean for Your Congressional District
The Trump Administration and leaders in Congress have proposed deep cuts to various critical services and systems. If enacted, these cuts would harm millions of individuals and would be particularly damaging for certain populations, such as older adults, people with disabilities, and families struggling to make ends meet. Especially troubling is the fact that these spending reductions are being put forth alongside a set of tax cuts that would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy and large corporations.
As Congress prepares to go back into session early next month and confront a number of key budget decisions, it is important to underscore what is at stake. With this goal in mind, the California Budget & Policy Center has created a set of 53 Fact Sheets - one for every congressional district in the state - that highlights the potential impact of proposed federal spending cuts, in terms of people served or levels of support. These new publications include figures on:
- CalFresh food assistance participation
- Rental assistance receipt
- Medi-Cal enrollment
- CalWORKs participation
- Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) receipt
- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) receipt
- Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) state grants
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants
Federal
New Resources From the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance (ECQA Center) is pleased to announce the release of new and updated resources that support states and territories in the implementation of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) requirements. These and other resources are available on the
ECQA Center Web page
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Program Standards
National Program Standards Crosswalk Tool
The Head Start Program Performance Standards1 and Child Care and Development Fund Regulations, both issued in 2016, are now included in the
National Program Standards Crosswalk Tool. The Crosswalk Tool is designed to help states and territories that are developing and aligning program standards for licensing, quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS), and prekindergarten programs to search and compare the content of several sets of national standards (e.g., Head Start, accreditation, Caring for Our Children).
Child Care Licensing
Developing and Revising Child Care Licensing Requirements
Having clearly written, research-based, measurable licensing requirements is the first step in protecting children from health and safety risks and in promoting quality care. Licensing requirements-supported by monitoring, enforcement, and technical assistance (TA)-provide protection through prevention and reduce risks to the health, safety, and well-being of children in care. This new document presents steps for
developing and revising child care licensing requirements
based on several states' successful practices.
Designing Family-Friendly Consumer Education on Child Care
This new brief provides research-based information to support state and territory agency staff members as they
design and implement family-friendly consumer education websites and other resources
, such as QRIS programs. Consumer education efforts are undergoing revisions in response to provisions in the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 20143 and CCDF regulations. The brief provides information that will allow state leaders to understand the general applicability of research findings while acknowledging that multiple approaches are needed to address families' diverse needs.
NOTE: If you would like to share your newsletter or items of interest with our field via the Monday morning e-Newsletter, then please
email us a link.
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Early Education and Support Division
Subject: Revised Family Fee Schedule
Number: 17-11
Date: August 2017
Expires: Until Rescinded
Authority: California Education Code sections 8263, 8263.1, 8273, 8273.1, and 8447(b)(1), (c) and (f)
Attention: Executive Directors and Program Directors of Child Development Programs
The purpose of this Management Bulletin (MB) is to notify contractors of the Revised Family Fee Schedule and other changes impacting the assessment of the family fees as required by Assembly Bill (AB) 99, enacted by the Budget Act of 2017. The Revised Family Fee Schedule is effective July 1, 2017, and can be downloaded at
http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/documents/famfeeschedjuly2017.xls.
This MB rescinds MB 12-05 and MB 14-03a.
CDE received Department of Finance approval for the updated Family Fee Schedule. The Management Bulletin was posted on Friday.
NOTE: Early Education and Support Division (EESD) Consultants are available to provide assistance and answer questions about early education and support, and are assigned by region. Find the county in the list below to identify the assigned EESD Consultant to contact.
Click here to find yours.
Energenius Out of School Time Program tr
aining modules were created through a partnership between PG&E and CalSAC. The program is designed to engage children and youth to think about how they use energy, how energy is measured and paid for, and ways to save energy. Children and youth will understand how they can help reduce the impacts of energy use and production on the environment, and also practice influencing others to take energy-saving actions. These new modules are uniquely and intentionally designed to engage families in what youth are learning as well as provide families with resources for CARE, a PG&E program that incentivizes families to put energy saving practices to use and save on their energy bill, ESA, as well as Rate Awareness and Education.
CalSAC is excited to offer funding for programs in PG&E service areas to host a family engagement event through the Energenius® OST Program. Strengthen the quality of your program and deepen your program's impact on energy conservation through hosting a family engagement event.
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On Friday, July 28th, CAPPA supported CDE/EESD with a webinar focused on MB
17-08,
17-09 and
17-10 in addition to answering submitted questions regarding 12-month eligibility.
Click
HERE to read the CDE PPT presentation of the webinar. The full audio version of the webinar is available
HERE.
If you did not listen to the webinar, we encourage you do so as it was full of rich information. Additionally, it was very clear particularly during the Q&A portion of the webinar, that there are clear objectives that CDE is using as reference to answering questions and drafting Management Bulletins (MBs). They are:
1.
CDE directives and input will fall on the side of what is in the best interests of the child.
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Continuity of care for 12 months.
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Hold Harmless will be applied to agencies that are implementing the increase in the SMI, family fees and 12-month eligibility consistent with the 2017-18 budget bill and trailer bill intent. As noted during the webinar, "Errors and overpayments will not be looked at (Hold Harmless) if implemented in accordance with Education Code Section 8263(i)1:
Hold Harmless will be applied to agencies that are implementing the increase in the SMI, family fees and 12-month eligibility consistent with the 2017-18 budget bill and trailer bill intent. As noted during the webinar, "Errors and overpayments will not be looked at (Hold Harmless) if implemented in accordance with Education Code Section 8263(i)
To understand the intent behind these directives, it is strongly suggested that Education Code Sections 8263(h) and (i) be read and memorized, as clear language on the guiding principals behind anticipated directives is given.
Again, it could not have been emphasized any stronger that if your agency implements in accordance with the the changes in law enacted as part of the 2017-18 budget package above laws that went into effect on July 1, 2017, CDE will have a hold harmless applied for purposes of reviews.
This webinar was very clear that the work we do is going to get greatly streamlined and will definitely support families with continuity of care and greater stability for children.
CAPPA is going to work with CDE to write out answers to the six pages of questions that you have all submitted. CDE will host these responses on their website, but CAPPA will have a link to them on the same page where we will host this webinar and PPT for reference. The page where all information will be hosted is
here.
If you have additional questions, please contact
CAPPA.
Q: What is the October 1, 2017 deadline?
A: That is the deadline wherein CDE must provide through MBs or letters of instruction on how to implement the laws that are now in place. Below is the language clarifying October 1, 2017 in the Education Code Section 8263.
(j) (1) Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code) and Section 33308.5 of this code, until regulations are filed with the Secretary of State to implement subdivision (h), the department shall implement subdivision (h) through management bulletins or similar letters of instruction on or before October 1, 2017.
MB 17-11: Revised Family Fee Schedule is currently in the approval process, and will be posted in the near future. Additional MBs associated with implementation of the Budget Act of 2017 are forthcoming.
Finally, EESD has put a hold on issuing more answers to questions regarding past MBs. The reason for this is that the newly enacted 2017-18 budget has provided the conduit needed to reexamine and do away with burdensome reporting requirements and transfer issues that exist between CalWORKs Stage 1 and Stage 2 child care.
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The 2017 -18 Budget Act reflects 75th percentile
rates using the 2016 Market Rate Survey.
Click here to see that survey and the rates as they relate to your county.
Included in the budget is another hold harmless provision for 12 months, which is proposed to start from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018.
*MEMBERS: Please email
CAPPA for county specific sheets
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Joint Annual Conference 2017
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Joint Annual Conference 2017
October 18-20, 2017
DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento
Registration is Now Open!
For more conference information and to see the Preliminary Workshop Program,
Click Here.
Conference Sponsorship or exhibitor opportunities are still available!
Hotel Reservations:
Our room block at the DoubleTree is sold out. If you are still in need of a room, please email
Danielle.
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ALL NEW! 2017 Early Learning & Child Care Webinar Series
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Build or Add to Your Center Resource Library!
This is Your Opportunity to Receive Professional Development in a Format Convenient to You.
CAPPA Children's Foundation, in partnership with MCT Technology, brings you an ALL NEW Series of trainings, all for one low price per center or program location. View the webinar series and be connected without ever leaving your location. This is a fabulous opportunity to train your staff on the most requested child care topics for 2017 at an affordable price in an incredibly convenient format.
Click Here
to see more details and to register for the all new 2017 series.
August 2017 Webinar:
Burnout Busters: Care for the Caregiver
Self-care is important in any line of work. However, it is particularly important in the helping and caring professions. By taking care of ourselves, we are ensuring that we are functioning at our highest capacity, therefore providing the best services to the families and children that we serve. This webinar will assist you in creating and identifying self-care strategies that suit you and your needs.
The 2010- 2016 series' are still available for purchase. Purchase the 2010, 2011 and 2012 webinar CDs for 50% off!!
For more information or to view past topics,
Click Here.
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