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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
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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November 2017 Featured Agency of the Month
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The Chicano Federation, celebrating its 48th anniversary, was founded in 1969 to improve the quality of life for families and children throughout San Diego County. Its mission is to provide empowering opportunities for our diverse community.
In its early years, the Federation was led by a tireless group of advocates dedicated to the advancement in civil rights and civic participation by Latinos. Today, those strong roots empower the Chicano Federation to serve diverse populations through a variety of programs aimed at helping low-income families and individuals access vital and often life changing services. Programs include affordable housing, child nutrition, child development services, including a Head Start program, infant and toddler program, home visitor program, preschool program, and an HIV monitoring program in partnership with the Federal Center for Disease Control.
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EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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October 11, 2017
October 11, 2017
Subject: Digital Applications
October 10, 2017
October 3, 2017
September 29, 2017
September 28, 2017
Implementation of
12-month Eligibility
September 27, 2017
September 26, 2017
Revised Regional Market Rates
September 22, 2017
Enrolling Children with Exceptional Needs into Part-day California State Preschool Programs
September 13, 2017
September 13, 2017
Topical Input Sessions related to development of the Quality Improvement Expenditure Plan for Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) expenditures and other Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) quality improvement (QI) expenditures will take place on October 5, 2017.
August 11, 2017
Subject: Revised Family Fee Schedule
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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!
Child Care Links, Pleasanton
Children's Council of San Francisco
Child Action, Inc. Sacramento
YMCA Metropolitan Los Angeles
Child Development Inc. is Hiring! See the Recruitment Flyer
Here.
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Finding the Work Home Balance in Family Child Care
CAPPA Member Benefit
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Send emails, run promotions, and get feedback, all from one easy-to-use account. Email marketing can help you build stronger relationships with your clients, so they keep coming back. Need help? Constant Contact's award-winning coaches are just a phone call away to make sure you succeed.
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 AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support CAPPA every time you shop. When you shop at
smile.amazon.com
,
you'll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to CAPPA.
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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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 you want added to CAPPA's website Calendar, email us!
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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.
November 2017 Webinar:
Finding the Work Home Balance
in Family Child Care
Balancing work life and family is very difficult
for many providers. It can be tough to keep your home life and work life separate, in terms of the space, your personal time and the needs
of your own family. Work -life balance means something different to every individual, but this webinar will provide tips to help you find the
balance that's right for you.
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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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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During this season of thanks, we extend to you our sincere gratitude for your membership, support and the trust you have bestowed upon us.
We want you to know that CAPPA and the Children's Foundation are here to support you. We are here to provide you, and the families and children you serve, a voice in advocacy, a training and technical assistance resource, real time information, and a link to network and grow. We encourage you to get even more involved and to take advantage of what we can deliver.
But most importantly of all, we look forward to partnering with you and all organizations in unifying our strength in numbers and protecting the most valuable of services for working families and the child care and early learning infrastructures needed by our children.
So during this season of thanks, WE THANK YOU.
The CAPPA and Children's Foundation Board of Directors & Staff.
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With the California Legislature on recess, we are pleased to take advantage of this time to introduce a new segment in our Monday Morning Update: "Meet the Board Member". Here at CAPPA, our biggest strength lies in our Board and Membership, and we look forward to sharing more about each of our individual board members for the next coming weeks.
This week: Meet Marco Jimenez
Marco Jimenez started working as case manager for the California Migrant AP Program (CMAP) in 2001 in partnership with Community Action Partnership of Kern County and Central Valley Children's Services Network (CSN). In 2004, he joined CSN as Family Advocate, and three years later was promoted to the specialist position overseeing the Family Child Care Education Network Contract. In 2013, he was then promoted to the Subsidized Program Manager position overseeing all Center-Based and AP programs. He has been the subsidies director since 2016. Marco studied at "Liceo Cervantino" in Mexico and obtained his teaching credentials as "Profesor de Educación Primaria" (Elementary school Teacher). Marco's career started in Guanajuato Mexico as an elementary school teacher for the second grade. He moved to the states in 1988 and worked for Little Caesar's Corp. for twelve years, starting as a dishwasher working his way up to be promoted to Store Manager managing two locations. Marco studied at "Liceo Cervantino" in Mexico and obtained his teaching credentials as "Profesor de Educación Primaria" (Elementary school Teacher)
Marco is passionate about early education because he believes "Children are the building blocks of country. Investing in quality child care and adequate education is the best inheritance we can leave to our successors. Our children will be the next engineers, doctors, teachers, scientist and it is our responsibility, a society, to provide them with the tools to maximize their skills." After participating on the AB104 Stakeholder's group, Marco saw an opportunity to use his experience in the field to advance and promote CAPPA's goals. Marco believes that the child care and early education field shouldn't be as complicated as they are. In his words, "Child care and early education should be 100% accessible and affordable to all children." Fun fact about Marco!- He loves music. He recorded four albums before coming to this field and enjoys playing guitar, drums, bass, and Latin percussion.
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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:
The legislature is currently on interim recess and will return on January 3rd, 2018.
Interim Hearings that may be of interest:
- Wednesday, December 6, 2017 - Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color, INFORMATIONAL HEARING SUBJECT: Reducing Youth Incarceration and Setting a Path to Success and Sustainability
- Thursday December 7, 2017 - Select Committee on Housing Affordability for the Middle and Working Class: SUBJECT:The Housing Needs of Employees in Metropolitan and Urban Areas
Click here
to be directed to the Senate Committee Hearings Daily File.
Click here to be directed to the Assembly Committee Hearings Daily File.
BUDGET UPDATE:
 This last week saw a release from the Legislative Analyst's Office of California's Fiscal Outlook as it stands in preparation and deliberation of the upcoming 2018-19 budget. The 2018-19 Budget Process has now begun!
The near-term budget outlook is positive. Under our current estimates, the state would have $19.3 billion in total reserves (including $7.5 billion in discretionary reserves) at the end of 2018-19, assuming the Legislature makes no additional budget commitments. The Legislature can use discretionary resources to build more budget reserves, increase spending, and/or reduce taxes. We also estimate the Legislature will have $5.3 billion in uncommitted school and community college (Proposition 98) funds to allocate in 2018-19. We provide more detail on our estimates of Proposition 98 funding in a separate report accompanying this outlook.
The state has made significant progress in preparing for the next recession. To assess the longer-term budget outlook, we present two illustrative economic scenarios for fiscal years after 2018-19. Under a moderate recession scenario, the state has enough reserves to cover its deficits until 2021-22, assuming the Legislature makes no additional budget commitments. Additional budget commitments in the near term could cause the state to exhaust its reserves earlier in the next recession.
Below are links to the LAO report and shorter Health and Human Services and other areas.
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CAPPA Public Policy Principles: Partnering in 2017-18
The California Alternative Payment Program Association (CAPPA) will set policies and take actions on issues based on securing the most advantageous outcomes for working families and children. We are committed to working collaboratively towards greater access for parents to choose early care and educational programs that best support family stability while leading to greater academic outcomes for our earliest learners. We believe the best outcomes for parents and children are achieved when delivery of services is provided via California's 40 plus year mixed delivery system.
Click here to read our 2017-18 public policy priorities.
In an effort to expand and broaden collaborative efforts, we would like to share the public policy principles of our partners, as well. We are pleased that there is an organic process unfolding wherein the field has come together and is staying together to realize and achieve better outcomes for families and children.
Below find the policy principles of some of our partners:
Please email us
HERE if you would like us to share your policy principles in subsequent updates.
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2017 Child Care and Early Education Survey
In 2016, a child care and early education survey was put out to our field asking for data that would support field efforts to realize 12-month eligibility for families, an increase in the State Median Income (SMI) and an increase in funding for child care and early education.
In large part due to the data collected from our field, we were able to make those efforts a reality when the 2017-18 budget was enacted. However, our work is far from over.
This year, the following partners
and
Parent Voices, are again asking for your help in completing a survey that will allow us to collectively be strategic in our "asks" for 2018 and build upon the momentum we have experienced.
Additionally, based on your input from last year wanting to keep a copy of the survey for your records,
click here for a fillable PDF file of the survey.
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2017 Legislative Victories for California Families
(A message from the Child Care Law center)
We are happy to share our
California blazed new trails this year, creating better prospects for families and a brighter future for children.
Among these legislative wins are:
- Parental leave for three million more new parents
- Child care for parents taking ESL and GED courses
- More diapers for low-income families
Thank you for your work. Our strength is grounded in our ability to work together.
Watch for our update in the new year about policies going into effect January 1st, 2018.
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Federal
With the state legislature on Interim recess, our attention and focus
has turned to the federal government. Of particular interest is the Child Care
for Working Families Act, introduced by Senator Patty Murray
(D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate education committee. This bill aims to be a comprehensive early learning and child care bill with the goal of increasing access and affordable, high-quality child care for working families across the country.
As highlighted in Senator Murray's press release, the main tenants of the bill are as follows:
- Establish a new federal-state partnership based on Medicaid to provide high-quality, affordable child care from birth through age 13;
- More than double the universe of children eligible for child care assistance, and increase the number of children who could receive such assistance by more than 13 times the current amount;
- Provide incentives and funding for states to create high-quality preschool programs for low- and moderate-income 3- and 4-year olds during the school day, while providing a higher matching rate for programs for infants and toddlers, who are often harder and more expensive to care for
- Increase workforce training and compensation, including by ensuring that all child care workers are paid a living wage and early childhood educators are provided parity with elementary school teachers with similar credentials and experience;
- Improve care in a variety of settings, including addressing the needs of family, friend, and neighbor care and care during nontraditional hours to help meet the needs of working families;
- Build more inclusive, high-quality child care providers for children with disabilities, and infants and toddlers with disabilities, including by increased funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; and
- Help all Head Start programs meet the new expanded duration requirements and provide full-day, full-year programming.
Test for the bill can be found by clicking
A fact sheet can be found
HERE.
A press release can be found
HERE.
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1 in 7 Children Will Be Excluded from House GOP CTC Increase
The House Republican tax bill would increase the maximum Child Tax Credit (CTC) from the current $1,000 to $1,600 per child, but not every family will see that benefit.
It would completely exclude 10 million children whose parents work for low pay - about 1 in 7 of all U.S. children in working families, including thousands of children in every state.
Another 13 million children in working families would receive less than the full $600-per-child increase (in most cases, much less).
Altogether, 1 in 3 children in working families would either be excluded or only partially benefit from the CTC increase.
Our state-by-state data shows the thousands of children left behind in almost every state - nearly 25 percent of all children in working families.
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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.
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CAPPA & Children's Foundation
Fall Regional Technical Assistance Trainings
Hosted by CAPPA Member Agencies
CAPPA member agencies, with the support of CAPPA & Children's Foundation, have put together a series of Informational and Networking Sessions that will be coming to a region near you!
December 5, 2017- Costa Mesa
December 15, 2017- Stockton
Agenda:
10:00am-12:00pm
12-month Eligibility Determination/Redetermination
Policy & Procedures Discussion
During this group discussion, we will:
- Review the webinar that was recorded by CDE on September 28th
- Review Management Bulletin 17-14: 12-Month Eligibility
- Share best practices and policies on implementing 12-month eligibility (bring your samples or email ahead of time so they can be sent out to the group)
12:00pm-12:30pm- Lunch (provided)
12:30pm-1:15pm
CAPPA Public Policy Discussion:
Now that 12-month Eligibility is a reality- what is next for
- CalWORKs
- Eliminating the hold harmless sunset
- Rate restructuring
- Full inclusion on a mixed delivery system and that values all provider types
1:15pm-2:00pm
Peer to Peer Networking Session
Come prepared with your questions!
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CAPPA Budget & Advocacy Day
January 18, 2018
California Endowment
Adelante Meeting Room
1414 K Street, #500
Sacramento, CA 95814
10:00am - 5:00pm
The day will begin with an expert panel sharing their input, reactions and top priorities on the 2018-19 Governor's Budget. Confirmed presenters include:
- Kristin Schumacher, California Budget and Policy Center
- Brianna Bruns, Department of Finance
- Sarah Neville-Morgan, California Department of Education, Early Education & Support Division
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Mike Herald, Western Center on Law & Poverty
We will then move into an orientation training about the legislative process and how to conduct visits with your representatives.
In the afternoon, attendees will experience the legislative process
first-hand by spending the 2nd half of the day at the Capitol participating in legislative visits, educating lawmakers and advocating to make child care and early education a priority.
Schedule of Events
(You will receive a schedule, room assignments, and legislative advocacy packet when you check in.)
9:30am: Check in at the California Endowment- 1414 K Street,
Suite 500, Sacramento, CA 95814
10:00am-11:45am: Opening remarks and budget panel discussions
11:45am-12:15pm: Legislative orientation
12:15pm- 12:45pm: Lunch
1:00pm-5:00pm: Legislative Visits
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