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"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing"
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What happened last week?
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee 2 On Education Finance and the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education have completed their part of the budget process. To date, each Subcommittee have reviewed the governor's January and May Revision proposals, have taken input from the public and have formulated and voted out proposals. Those proposals will be submitted to each full Budget Standing Committee to make recommendations and move forward. Cursory votes from the full Assembly and full Senate are taken. From there, the differences from the Assembly recommendations versus the Senate are moved to a Budget Conference Committee to reconcile and then propose proposals to move forward.
The above is a broad overview of the budget process we are in now.
May 29, 2018 - Early Care and Education Advocacy Day!
Today, advocates are coming together to communicate strong support of increased funding.
The Early Care and Education (ECE) Coalition is a partnership of early childhood education advocacy and service organizations working together to secure access to high quality early learning and care for California's low-income children and families. Early care and education is vital to giving California's kids everything they need for a bright future while supporting working families, and we urge you to support a $1 billion increase in the 2018-19 budget to meet their child care needs.
The severe undersupply of infant and toddler care is creating a crisis for working parents, their families, our businesses, and our state's future. Our youngest children need the most care, but the least help is available for their families. We urge you this budget year to commit to making critical, substantial investments that meet the needs of working families, provide new child care spaces, adequate per-child funding, age appropriate facilities and infrastructure, start-up support, and professional development for all care settings.
California is the 5th largest economy in the world, yet it is providing affordable infant and toddler child care to less than 14% of eligible families. In contrast, England, the 6th largest economy in the world, provides universal early care and education for 3- and 4-year-olds, as well as 30 hours a week of enriching care for infants and toddlers in families making less than $136,000 annually. With support and investment in care for babies and toddlers, California will be creating a more seamless support system for children from the beginning of life to preschool and beyond.
All Department of Finance (DOF) that breaks down the CalWORKs, child care and other noted slot and budget numbers are hosted on CAPPA's Budget Page.
WHAT IS OUR FOCUS...
$1 BILLION FOR BABIES!!
100,000 CHILD CARE SLOTS!!!
WHEN DO WE NEED THEM...
NOW!!!
- Parents need access to 24 hour/7 days per week affordable child care options that meet the demands of full time employment.
- Children need stable and enriching child care settings to attain greater educational outcomes.
- Child care providers and teachers need to be reimbursed livable rates that value their profession and economic contributions.
- Employers need a reliable workforce.
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CAPPA's
2017-18 Board of Directors
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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
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
Joie Owen
Glenn County Office of Education
Denyne Micheletti Colburn
CAPPA CEO
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Featured Agency of the Month
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We like to say that Colusa County is unique. Colusa County is a small, rural, and remote community located 60 miles north of Sacramento, California. Colusa County has a rich agricultural heritage and serves many families who work in non-traditional hours in the farming industry.
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EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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The hearing will take place Tuesday, May 15, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
This is to inform all CDE, EESD contractors that seven more answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) relevant to 12-month eligibility have been posted on the Budget Implementation
April 20, 2018
Public Hearing for the 2019-2021 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) State Plan
The CDE Child Development Contracts office will begin e-mail distribution of fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 child
development contracts on May
21
, 2018.
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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.
Receptionist
Community Child Care Coordinating Council (4Cs) of Alameda County
Family Navigator/Trainer - Bridge Program
Solano Family & Children's Services
International Institute of Los Angeles
Go Kids, Inc., Gilroy
Pomona Unified School District- Child Development
Children's Council San Francisco
Solano Family & Children's Services
North Coast Opportunities-Lake County
Child Care Coordinating Council, Inc. of San Mateo County
Child Development Inc. is Hiring! See the Recruitment Flyer
Here.
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CAPPA Member Benefits now available on the Members Only website:
*BRAND NEW!*
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CAPPA Community Forum
This Forum is an integrated discussion board and will allow members to engage in online discussion, subscribe to your favorite topics, get your questions answered and upload your agency forms- Find answers, stay informed, and make connections!
Email CAPPA for your log-in so that you can access this forum and all other resources that the member's only website has to offer.
Now up on the forum: Do you have any specific questions on 12-month eligibility stopping you from fully implementing?
*All new AP branding templates
from CAPPA's Branding Committee are now available for CAPPA members.
Conflict Resolution in the Classroom- What it really means and what it looks like
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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.
If you have news to share or an event you want added to CAPPA's website calendar, email us!
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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
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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California Senate and Assembly floor sessions will convene on Tuesday and Thursday this week.
Click here
to be directed to CAPPA's website 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 will also note legislative hearings of interest to our field.
Below are the bills of interest that have been scheduled for a hearing:
- June 6 Senate Education @ 9:00 am in Room 4203
- AB 60 (Santiago)Subsidized child care and development services: stages of child care: CalWORKs
- June 12 Senate Human Services @ 1:30 pm in Room 3191
Below are a couple bills of interest that were amended last week.
- AB 2292 (Aguiar- Curry) Child care: reimbursement rates: start up costs: grants. Below is a partial paste of the amendments:
The bill would establish the Early Education Expansion Program for the purpose of increasing access to inclusive early care and education programs and increasing early learning infrastructure capacity in high-need communities. The bill would require the State Department of Education to award grants on a competitive basis, and would require a grant to be used for one-time infrastructure costs only. The bill would require an applicant to include specified information in its application.
The bill would also establish the Early Education Expansion Program for Local Educational Agencies. The bill would require the department to award grants on a competitive basis, and would require the department's Special Education Division and Early Education and Support Division to provide guidance to local educational agencies on serving young children with exceptional needs in the least restrictive environment. The bill would require a grant to be used for one-time infrastructure costs only. The bill would require an applicant to include specified information in its application.
The act establishes the California Child Care Initiative Project and provides that the objective of the project is to increase the availability of quality child care programs in the state.
AB 2626 (Mullin)
Child care services. This bill makes a number of statewide changes to subsidized child care and development programs, including raising the income eligibility threshold for families; changing the age restrictions for California State Preschool Programs (CSPP); providing opportunities for staff training; and increasing flexibility in the use of contracted funds.
The amendment would delete the 6-month exception for families establishing initial eligibility or ongoing eligibility on the basis of seeking employment.
SB 982 (Mitchell) CalWORKs: grant amount.
The amendments taken would Eliminate the minimum grant aid level. Establish annual maximum grant aid levels for 2019 through 2021. Eliminate the annual increase in grants that is tied to the federal poverty level. Clarify counties' share of cost responsibility.
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AB 2292 - Article from the Sacramento Bee
For many working families, access to quality child care has become an unattainable privilege, leaving parents with a difficult decision: Do they work to support their family, or stay at home to care for their kids?
This dilemma is being faced by more and more California parents, struggling to cobble together whatever child care they can find. This is unacceptable, which is why I authored
Assembly Bill 2292 and will be holding a rally with child care advocates and parents on Tuesday.
This bill would expand our state's child care capacity by increasing the rates paid to providers for infant and toddler care, offering grants to help pay for new and renovated day care facilities, and establishing a fund to recruit and train a new generation of providers.
In addition to AB 2292, I am a proud supporter of the Legislative Women's Caucus budget request for "$1 billion for babies." This is not just a catchy phrase. From birth through age three is when families struggle the most to find child care, when care is the most expensive and where the state has lagged in reinvestment since the devastating budget cuts during The Great Recession. It is also the time when the "wiring" is set for every child's brain for the rest of their lives.
We should be doing everything in our power to help children and their parents thrive. The choice seems pretty simple to me: support working families and those trying to move into the workplace by providing more child care options -- or let these children down and instead support their families through the social safety net.
I am working diligently with my legislative colleagues and the governor to pass AB 2292 and the corresponding budget funding. We have an incredible opportunity during this time of economic recovery to make an investment in the next generation of children. We cannot miss it.
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Immigrant Families' Safety in Early Childhood Programs
Many people are aware that immigration agents aren't supposed to engage people at places like schools, hospitals, and churches. It's less known that early childhood programs are also protected.
"Sensitive locations policies" are internal guidance at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). In short, immigration agents can't apprehend, arrest, interview, or search people at certain locations without a warrant or other prior approval. That includes schools, school bus stops, health care facilities, places of worship, sites of religious or civil ceremonies, and public demonstrations.
Early childhood programs
-including known and licensed child care, Head Start, preschool, pre-kindergarten, and other early learning programs-fall under the definition of "schools."
What you can do to keep immigrant families safe
CLASP's fact sheets on sensitive locations are available in
English or Spanish. Please share them with your networks and encourage early childhood programs to display them prominently for parents and staff.
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Follow up Resources on new Child Care & Development Block Grant Funds
as forwarded to CAPPA by Hannah Matthews from CLASP
These resources from CLASP may be helpful in answering your questions about the new funds:
The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and CLASP are creating a learning community for advocates to facilitate sharing around state strategies for the new CCDBG funds. Click here to fill out the form if you're interested in joining. We will hold monthly calls where advocates can share their best practices, state developments, challenges, and opportunities. This will also be a useful place to discuss maintaining these funds in FY19 and beyond.
CAPITOL HILL: House Committee Releases Draft TANF Reauthorization
Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee published draft legislation that would reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, including making significant changes to child care entitlement spending by states.
In its current version, the legislation proposes raising the cap by allowing states to transfer up 50% of TANF funds to CCDF. However, it would prohibit these funds from being spent on child care activities. While CCAoA supports giving states more flexibility on child care investment, we fear that this proposal could negatively affect families and communities who depend on this support.
Child Care Aware® of America provided comments on the draft bill to the Committee that you can review here . The official introduction and consideration of the bill may happen soon.
As of now, there is no Senate companion legislation.
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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. Please make sure that you have a link included to an online version or viewing
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Tell State Leaders:
Do More for CA's Babies
Help ensure that the 2018-19 California State Budget funds critical home visiting supports for babies and families living in poverty.
Children's earliest brain development is the foundation for their lifelong health and success. Yet too often families, especially those who are struggling to make ends meet, don't have the support they need during the stressful time of pregnancy and the baby's earliest days.
By matching new and expectant parents with trained professionals, home visiting programs provide ongoing, individualized support during pregnancy and through a child's first years of life. Home visiting is proven to boost both parents and children by increasing healthy births, fostering positive parenting practices, reducing child maltreatment, and increasing family self-sufficiency.
Over the next couple of weeks, state leaders will make critical decisions on state budget investments around voluntary evidence-based home visiting for families in poverty.
Join local First 5's and other early childhood leaders in urging state policymakers to invest more in California babies and their families!
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California's next governor must choose children
The race for the next California Governor is on. At last Tuesday's gubernatorial debate, all the candidates commented on early childhood education, making it a top issue in the next election. We couldn't be more thrilled! With just a few weeks until the June 5th primary, we urge you to register to vote and support candidates who Choose Children this election.
If you didn't catch the debate, watch it in full here .
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Dear Early Learning and Care Partners,
I wanted to share with you information from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child Care (OCC) related to allocations of Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds in light of the increased budget appropriation for fiscal year (FY) 2018. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 includes $5.226 billion in
discretionary funding for the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program. This is a $2.4 billion increase from the discretionary funding for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2017. Combined with the mandatory funding that was awarded in October, FFY 2018 funding for the CCDF program is $8.143 billion. California's federal CCDF allocation for FFY 2018 is now $827,230,552, which is an increase of $231.649 million from FFY 2017.
Due to the late notice in receiving our funding amount and the timing of the Governor's May Budget Revise, the plan is to have a robust input process in the summer. This lets us be more thoughtful on the use of these additional, discretionary funds. At this time, we don't expect these will be part of the 2018-19 state budget.
Per a recent OCC discussion with Shannon Christian, this additional funding provides an opportunity for lead agencies to invest in some of the expensive systems-building and infrastructure efforts that have come with implementing CCDBG reauthorization. These efforts include purchasing equipment for doing fingerprinting for background checks, building more consumer-friendly websites, and developing data systems that allow for integration across agencies. This funding also provides an opportunity to support quality improvement efforts for
informal child care that may currently be excluded from or underrepresented in such initiatives as quality rating and improvement systems and professional development.
This substantial increase in federal resources devoted to child care is a major milestone that presents significant opportunities. We look forward to working with partners and stakeholders as we continue to implement the CCDBG in California and increase access to quality early learning and care for California's most vulnerable children and families.
Thank you for all you do!
Sarah Neville-Morgan
Director, Early Education and Support Division
California Department of Education
1430 N Street, Suite 3410
Sacramento, CA 95814-5901
Message regarding FI$CAL
Dear Executive Directors of Child Care
and Development Programs:
The Child Development and Nutrition Fiscal Services (CDNFS) Office is forwarding you a copy of the "Implementation of Statewide Accounting System: FI$CAL" letter. This letter notifies all contractors that the CDE is converting to a new automated statewide accounting system, the Financial Information System of California (FI$CAL) beginning July 1, 2018. The implementation of FI$CAL will impact certain deadlines as well as timing of apportionment payments.
If you have any questions regarding this subject please contact your assigned fiscal analyst.
CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE STUDY
We are writing to announce the launch of data collection for the California Child Care Study in May 2018. This is a state-wide study about subsidized child care and the families who use it. For this study, we will collect data about the local agencies that manage child care subsidies, the families who use that care, and the early care and education providers who serve them. State departments will use these data to inform policies and potential changes to child care services for eligible families. This study is being conducted by Child Trends (visit the Child Trends Web site at https://www.childtrends.org/) for the California Department of Social Services and the CDE. You can visit the California Child Care Study Project Web site at http://www.childtrends.org/project/california-child-care-study/ for more information.
Learn more
In January, we offered informational webinars (which can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6n7l2dsD6A&feature=youtu.be) that provided an overview of the California Child Care Study. Our upcoming webinar will focus on specific details about the local agency, provider, and family data collection processes and what to do if you are contacted to participate in the study. Please feel free to forward this information to people you know who may be interested in joining. You can register for the webinar below.
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Regional Technical Assistance Trainings-
Summer 2018
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May 31, 2018
Orland
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June 11, 2018
Fresno
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June 14, 2018
Santa Rosa
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CAPPA member agencies, with the support of CAPPA & Children's Foundation, are putting together a series of Technical Assistance (TA) 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.
Topics to include:
- Best Practices Session (10:00am-11:45am):
- How to successfully prepare for a GAU in the age of 12-month eligibility-discussions based on recently conducted reviews
- Provider Reimbursement Methods
- CAPPA Budget and Legislative Discussion and Updates (12:15pm-1:00pm)
- Peer-to-Peer Networking Session (1:00pm-2:00pm):This portion of the agenda will allow attendees to share their successful strategies, tools and ideas.
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CAPPA Statewide Meeting-in partnership with CDE
2860 Gateway Oaks Drive
Bldg. B, Ste. 100
Sacramento CA 95833
Classrooms 121/122/123
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To better support our field, CAPPA, in partnership with CDE, will be hosting an informational training for our field in Sacramento!
These Statewide Meetings will bring our field together to share insights and experiences, explore ideas, shape policy, and discuss best practices.
Both locations will offer the same format, agenda and presentations. We hope you can join us!
Agenda:
9:00am
Registration
9:30am-11:00am
Improper Payment Elimination and Recovery Act Results
The purpose of this informational session is to present information and results regarding the Improper Payments and Elimination Recovery Act (IPERA) review for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2015-16.
11:00am-12:30pm
Overview of the Alternative Payment, CalWORKs Child Care and Family Child Care Home Education Networks Review Guide
This workshop presents an overview of the Alternative Payment review guide and provides clear written information that will be used in Alternative Payment monitoring reviews.
12:30pm
Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm
Attendance Recording, Reporting and Provider Payments (Alternative Payment Programs)
This workshop presents an overview of the changes to attendance reporting as prescribed in AB 274. It will provide information on provider payment requirements and parent and provider responsibilities for attendance recording for reimbursements, proration, monthly maximums, provider examples of actual calculations and how to deal with oddities like if hourly rates exceed daily rates.
A BIG Thank you to our event partners!
Interested in sponsoring these events?
We look forward to seeing you!
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Network and CAPPA Joint Annual Conference 2018
DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento
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The California Child Care Resource & Referral Network and the California Alternative Payment Program Association look forward to hosting our 6th Joint Conference together this fall.
Registration information, along with a preliminary conference program, will be released in July. At that time, online registration will be open and attendees will be able to indicate their
workshop selections when they register for the conference.
Conference registration includes four meals, two plenary sessions, over 60 workshop selections and all conference materials.
WHAT: Joint Network/CAPPA Conference
WHEN: October 17-19, 2018
TIME: Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. to Friday at 12:00 p.m.
WHERE: DoubleTree Hotel
2001 Point West Way
Sacramento, CA 95815
(916) 929-8855
CONFERENCE COST: Member Agencies, 5 or More Staff - $359 per person
Member Agencies - $405 per person
Non-Member Agencies - $525.00 per person
Hotel Reservations:
Our room block at the DoubleTree is already sold out. If you are still in need of a room, please email
Danielle.
NEW!! Exhibitor and Sponsor Information is now available!
Registration:
Registration and workshop information will be available in early August.
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To help the field better coordinate the calendaring of information valuable to all, we are hosting a field calendar. On the calendar will be national, state and regional meetings, legislative and budget hearings, and any other events brought to our attention. To add to the calendar, simply email
CAPPA.
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Register Today for an Entire Year's Worth of Training!
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All New Early Learning & Child Care Webinar Series for 2018!
Build or Add to your
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 staff, providers and the community on the most requested child care topics for 2018 at an affordable price in an incredibly convenient format.
Click Here to see more details, topics and to register for the all new 2018 series.
The 2010- 2017 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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