Issue #25                                                               June 19, 2017
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Introducing CAPPA's 2017-18 Board of Directors
CAPPA is excited to announce to the field, our 2017-18 Board of Directors:

Martin Castro 
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation


Rick Richardson
Child Development Associates



Karen Marlatt
Valley Oak Children's Services


Trudy Adair- Verbais
Santa Barbara County Education Office


 

Beth Chiaro
Beth Chiaro
Child Care Resource Center 





Tina Barna
Choices for Children



Abby Shull
YMCA Childcare Resource Service 




Jeffrey Moreira
Crystal Stairs, Inc.

 

Phillip Warner
Children's Council San Francisco


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



Newly Elected
LaVera Smith

Supportive Services Fresno



Newly Elected
Jasmine Tijerino
San Mateo 4Cs



Newly Elected
Michelle Graham
Children's Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County

June 2017 Featured Agency of the Month!
Davis Street Family Resource Center
For more than 46 years Davis Street has provided critically needed services to low-income, uninsured, and working poor families. Beginning as a ministry of the First Christian Church, Davis Street has evolved into the only multi-service agency in San Leandro and the Eden Area providing a comprehensive range of services for families and seniors.

Click HERE to read more.

* Email us here if you would like to be a featured agency!
EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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
April 13, 2017
New Travel Rates effective January 2017- for EESD Contractors  
April 12, 2017
CalWORKS Stage One Child Care Best Practices
April 7, 2017
The California Department of Social Services has scheduled a public hearing for May 24, 2017, to receive testimony on the Calculating Overpayments in the CalWORKs Program (ORD #0716-08) regulations; details can be found by clicking 
April 6, 2017
TO: Holders of the Eligibility and Assistance Standards (EAS) Manual, Division 40
CDSS MANUAL LETTER NO. EAS-17-03
Starting with Section 40-105
April 4, 2017
Subject:
Fiscal Year 2016-17 Request for Applications (RFA), California Renovation and Repair Loan Program
Job Openings

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!

Fill out the employment application Here.
Solano Family & Children's Services

Teacher Assistant
International Institute of Los Angeles

Child Development Inc. is Hiring! See the Recruitment Flyer 
Here.
Announcements
Hands-on Science on a Shoe-String Budget
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Field Happenings!
If you have news to share or an event you want added to CAPPA's website Calendar, 
Child Care & Early Learning Master Calendar



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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Become a CAPPA Monday Morning Update Partner!

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 
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The Children's Foundation is a non-profit organization (501(c)3), Taxpayer Identification Number is 
03-0521444. Your generous donation is tax deductible.
What's Happening
California 
This week, California Assembly and Senate floor sessions will convene on Monday and Thursday.  There are no legislative deadlines this week.

Click here to read all related budget information including hearing information, budget bill language, trailer bill language, and other related information. CAPPA is updating this page on a regular basis.

BUDGET UPDATE:
All budget and trailer bills were sent last week to the governor.  Now it is a wait and see until such time as he signs, vetoes, o blue pencils (reduces) funding proposed in line items.

Here is a summary of their actions:
  •  Increase Spending by $271 Million to Implement Multiyear Budget Agreement and Make Technical Adjustments
  • $159 million to annualize the cost of rate and slot increases initiated in the 2016-17 budget. 
  • $135 million to increase rates for child care and preschool providers. 
  • $8 million to add 2,959 full-day State Preschool slots at local education agencies (LEAs) to begin April 1, 2018. 
  • $30 million reduction due to various other changes. 
  • Make Changes to Eligibility Criteria and Family Income Reporting Requirements.
  • $20 million to (1) use the most recent State Median Income (SMI) when determining eligibility for child care and preschool and (2) set different entry and exit thresholds. Specifically, increase the entry threshold to 70 percent and the exit threshold to 85 percent of SMI. 
  • Allow families to report changes to income and work status less frequently.
  • Allow Part-Day State Preschool Programs to Serve Children With Special Needs Over Income Threshold
Adopted  foster care child care bridge programs with a start date of January 1, 2018 and $15.5 M General Fund in 17-18; $31 M General Fund ongoing along with our trailer bill language. 

To see all budget related background materials, please visit CAPPA's Budget page.  
 
CAPPA will be posting updates. Click here to see breaking budget related information.

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:

With the deadline for bills to pass out of their houses of origin having passed, both houses have commenced the next round of policy hearings as bills that have passed out of their houses of origin move on in the legislative process.
Active bills of interest:
  • AB 60 (Santiago & Gonzalez)  - This bill updates income eligibility guidelines that have been frozen for over a decade, taking into account the new minimum wage, and streamlines reporting requirements to minimize disruptions for children, parents, employers and child care providers.  AB 60 Resource Page. 
  • AB 227 (Mayes)  - This bill would create the Educational Opportunity and Attainment Program that would provide education incentive grants to CalWORKs recipients to encourage and support low-income parents who reach certain educational goals and create additional work-study slots and support services for CalWORKs recipients pursuing their education.
  • 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.
  • 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. Note: this bill originally required APP's to develop electronic timesheets. Amendments have been made to instead require the CDE to to provide a cost analysis regarding this matter. 
  • AB 1106 (Weber)  -   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)  
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 access the Senate Daily Files,  click here.
To access the Assembly Daily Files,  click here.
To watch live coverage of the Assembly and Senate click here.

The legislature has been working on framing the legislative and budgetary policies for the upcoming 2017-18 session. Click here to see the upcoming calendar of legislative deadlines. Please feel free to forward to us any trainings, conferences or meetings that you think would be beneficial to our field.  

In his proposed budget for the upcoming federal fiscal year, President Trump calls for fundamental changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - CalFresh in California - that would make it harder for struggling families to afford the basics. The President's deep cuts to SNAP would undermine its ability to lift families out of poverty and improve health and well-being, and would also shift a large share of program costs to states.
A new Fact Sheet from the California Budget & Policy Center highlights the local impact of SNAP cuts across our state by mapping the share of residents receiving CalFresh in each of California's 53 congressional districts. In addition to showing that CalFresh reaches every congressional district in the state, this analysis shows that 1 in 4 households in the 16th District (D-Costa) and 21st District (R-Valadao) receive CalFresh, while roughly 1 in 6 households do so in eight other congressional districts.

Click HERE to read the fact sheet by Kristen Schumacher.

Federal 
Today (6/15/17), the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and the National Women's Law Center released an updated version of Implementing the Child Care and Development Block Grant Reauthorization: A Guide for States published originally in April 2015, following the 2014 bipartisan reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). The updated guide includes an outline and discussion of provisions in the final rule implementing CCDBG issued in September 2016 by the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This guidebook summarizes and analyzes key sections of the law and offers recommendations-and cautions-for policymakers and advocates as they consider how to implement those sections. 
The updated guide provides greater understanding of the law and regulations and makes the case for necessary legislative and administrative policy changes at the state level and necessary funding increases at the federal and state level. 
Click HERE to read the full guide. 

Trump Budget Would Shift Huge Costs to States and Localities, Forcing Cuts to Key                                             Programs
President Trump's 2018 budget would deeply cut federal funding for programs that help low and moderate-income people, shifting large and growing costs to states over the next decade. Nationally, the cost shift to states a decade from now would be massive, equivalent to as much as 37 percent of state budgets - about $453 billion - in 2027 alone.
Specifically, the budget would undermine the success of SNAP and end its status as a national program, shifting more than $100 billion of SNAP costs to states over the next decade. States would be forced, for the first time, to pay a share of SNAP benefit costs and would get new flexibility to cut SNAP benefit levels.
States are in no position to absorb more than $100 billion in new costs over the next decade without cutting SNAP benefits and taking other steps that could increase hunger and hardship.
More than half of states are already struggling to close gaps between ongoing costs and revenues in their own budgets; most states could not replace that lost funding without raising taxes significantly.
Instead, they'd very likely cut many key investments and public services.

Of Interest
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.
Of Importance
A Message from Parent Voices for Alternative Payment contractors:
Increase of the SMI
We are happy to report that the 2017-18 State Budget will include a defrosting of the long outdated State Median Income (SMI), among many other things. Starting July 1, 2017, families' initial income eligibility will be based on 70% of the most recent SMI and ongoing income eligibility will be determined based on 85% of the most recent SMI. 

We would like to ask Alternative Payment Program Contractors to encourage any families that are deemed "over-income" prior to July 1 to appeal this termination, so that we do not lose families still in need of services during the interim. Additionally, it would be helpful, where possible, if recertifications and/or scheduled income calculations can be completed after July 1st . In summary, we ask that where there is additional flexibility for that flexibilty to be utilized, e.g. taking the  maximum allowed time to issue the termination notice, and if appealed, to schedule the hearing.

 

For additional support, parent can be directed to Parent Voices by emailing mary@parentvoices.org

or the Child Care Law Center at info@childcarelaw.org.

 

We thank the field in advance for this collaborative effort and all the support and advocacy.

The Governor's May Revise 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.   Please note that Trustline rates are not yet included.
 
The May Revise proposes using the 2016 rates beginning January 1, 2018.
 
Included in the May Revise, is another hold harmless provision for 12 months, which is proposed to start from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019.

*MEMBERS: Please email CAPPA for county specific sheets
Upcoming Events
Regional Technical Assistance Trainings
Summer 2017 
Hosted by CAPPA Member Agencies
10:00am-2:00pm
June 30th- Los Angeles
July 12th- Hanford
July 14th- San Mateo
July 21st- Chico
CAPPA member agencies, with the support of CAPPA & Children's Foundation, are putting together a series of Technical Assistance trainings that will be coming to a region near you!
This series will be delivered in a format that is very participatory. We encourage all participating to come with questions, as well as samples for each of the topics that will be discussed. 
Planned topics include:
  • Best Practices: Parent Handbook & Provider Information, Self-Employment, Broadly Consistent and Provider Payment Calculations.  
  • CAPPA Advocacy Discussion and Legislative Updates
  • Networking & Learning Session:
    This portion of the agenda will allow attendees to share their successful strategies, tools and ideas on the following:
    • How agencies complete their Program Self-Evaluation for CDE
    • Newly released MB 17-06 (Transfer from CalWORKs Stage 1 to Stage 2 child care services)
    • Importance of one-time voluntary transfers
Joint logo
Joint Annual Conference 2017 
October 18-20, 2017
DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento

Agency Pre-Pay Option:
We are offering an Agency pre-payment option and it is being provided for agencies that would like to pay their 2017 Conference Registration Fees in advance.  The preliminary program and final conference registration form, including the ability to list all conferees individually and to select workshops, will be released later in July. 
We are hard at work creating a conference program that includes a variety of workshops to meet the needs of staff working with parents; staff providing training and technical assistance to child care providers; staff administering AP programs, program staff-supervisors; managers and directors.  Please click:
for general information about the conference and if your agency would like to pre-pay for the 2017 Joint Network/CAPPA Conference.  Pre-payment for The Joint Annual Conference is Due by June 30th. 

Exhibitor and Sponsor Information is now available!

Registration:
Registration and workshop information will be available in July.

Hotel Reservations:
Our room block at the DoubleTree is already sold out. We do have room blocks at overflow hotels that are very close to the DoubleTree. If you are still in need of a room, please email
ALL NEW! 2017 Early Learning & Child Care Webinar Series 

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.
June 2017 Webinar:
Hands-on Science on a Shoe-String Budget
Learning science and engineering practices in the early years can foster children's curiosity and enjoyment in exploring the world around them and lay the foundation for a progression of science learning in K-12 settings and throughout their entire lives. With a little time and effort, you can start the school year with adequately stocked science supply shelves. Teaching science can be costly but it doesn't have to be. This webinar will provide valuable suggestions and creative ways to teach science on a budget.

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.