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Issue #44 November 6, 2017
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Alternative Payment Programs (APPs) do so much more than supporting families with support and access to child care. From border-to-border, APPs support each county with a menu of services that have evolved to meet the very unique needs of vulnerable families and populations. Therefore, to better support our field and decision makers with information about agencies and their services, each month CAPPA will be featuring an agency highlighting the contracts and programs delivered.
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November 2017 Featured Agency of the Month:
Chicano Federation of San Diego County
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.
The Chicano Federation impacts more than 8,000 people each year -- predominantly low-income working class families. Their needs are simple but profound: a safe, affordable place to call home, quality care and education for their young children, the opportunity to provide them with nutritious food and give them the foundation to grow up to become strong independent members of the community. Through its multi-faceted programs, the Chicano Federation embraces people of all backgrounds, ages, and races - serving as a stepping stone to help them achieve a better life and more promising future.
Over the past 48 years, the Chicano Federation has developed a strong reputation for addressing the pressing needs of the community through quality programs and a loyal, dedicated staff committed to changing the lives of those they serve. The organization is headed by Raymond Uzeta, President/CEO, who has led the organization for the past 25 years, along with a strong management team and supported by a dedicated board of directors. The organization has received the strong support and endorsement of key community leaders, who recognize the value that the organization brings to San Diego.
Key programs include:
- Preschool Program: The Preschool Program provides quality a quality education and child development services that prepare young children for kindergarten by developing their cognitive, social, motor, and emotional skills.
- Head Start Program:The Head Start Program provides parent education services and counseling to guide, support, and strengthen the relationship between child and parent, and connects families with dental and medical services and community resources.
- Child Nutrition Program: The Child Nutrition Program improves the overall health of children enrolled in home day care by ensuring that young children are provided nutritious meals so they grow up healthy and strong.
- Housing Program: The Housing Program provides well-maintained, affordable housing and gives low-income families a safe and affordable place to call home.
For more information, please call (619) 285-5600 ext. 447.
*Big thank you to Veronica Baker for the submission.
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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
Denyne Micheletti Colburn
CAPPA CEO
VACANCY
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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
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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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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
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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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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 Jeffrey Moreira
Jeffrey Moreira, Family Services Manager, has been in his current position for 7 years, and in the field for 17. He has also been a Department Supervisor, Team Supervisor, and Case Manager.
Jeff is committed to using his skills and experience in the field to support CAPPA in accomplishing its mission by advocating for changes in public policy that will support parental choice and access to early education and child care. Jeff brings to the board excellent communication skills, and, as Public Policy Co-Chair, excels in facilitating active communication amongst groups by educating and collaborating with all stakeholders.
One of Jeff's most valuable skills lies in his technical skills in data analysis, which helps facilitate the collection of data needed for child development programs. Having worked for both medium and large sized agencies, Jeff has a diverse perspective of how changes in the program requirements can affect agencies. Jeff brings a unique skill set to the subsidy arena. With over a decade of direct CDE and CalWORKs Stage 1 program experience and a keen sense of technology's capabilities, he has created greater efficiency and effectiveness through the implementation of small and large technology projects.
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California
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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:
On October 12, 2017 Governor Brown signed all the Individualize Child Care Subsidy bill that were presented to him this year. There were 4 individual bills signed into law that grants 11 counties the ability to pilot individualized child care county plans in an effort to address the unmet child care need within their counties. The bills and counties they impact are as follows:
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AB 258 (Arambula)
Child care and development services: individualized county child care subsidy plan: County of Fresno.
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AB 300 (Caballero)
Child care and development services: individualized county child care subsidy plan: Counties of Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clarita and Santa Cruz
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AB 435 (Thurmond)
Child care subsidy plans: Counties of
Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin,
and
Sonoma.
These bills authorize, until January 1, 2023, the above Counties to develop individualized county child care subsidy plans, as specified. The bills require the plans to be submitted by the counties to their local planning council and their respective county board of supervisors for approval, as specified. The bills require the Early Education and Support Division of the State Department of Education to review and approve or disapprove the plans and any subsequent modifications to the plans and, in specified situations, would require the State Department of Social Services to review the plans. The bills also requires the counties to annually prepare and submit to the Legislature, the State Department of Social Services, and the State Department of Education a report that contains specified information relating to the success of the counties' plans.
These bills also authorize the local policy to supersede California state preschool eligibility periods, as specified, and would delete the above provisions relating to superseding eligibility criteria relating to CalWORKs participation and the exceptions.
To learn more about existing individualized county plans,
CLICK HERE to read a policy paper written by Santa Clara County.
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CalChamber-Supported Workforce Development Bill to Become Law
A California Chamber of Commerce-supported bill that will help increase California's skilled workforce by authorizing a competitive grant program was signed earlier this month by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
AB 1111
(
E. Garcia; D-Coachella)
is designed to assist individuals who face multiple barriers to employment by providing them with remedial education and work readiness skills to prepare them for training, educational, apprenticeship or employment opportunities.
The bill establishes the Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and calls for the formation of partnerships between community-based organizations and workforce development boards to successfully deliver assistance to one or more targeted populations, including unskilled or underskilled, low-earning workers, workers displaced by the movement of an employer, long-term unemployed individuals, women seeking training or education to move into nontraditional fields of employment, as well as other individuals who face barriers to employment.
The
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) has projected that the state will produce 1.5 million fewer workers with some postsecondary education than the workforce will need by 2025. Not only is this skills gap a concern for employers, it also has serious implications for individuals hoping to find middle-class jobs that can support their families.
AB 1111 will help California reduce this skills gap and address the needs of employers, by ensuring that those individuals who need the most assistance and who face the greatest barriers to employment receive the remedial education and work readiness skills they need to prepare them to participate in training, educational, apprenticeship, or employment opportunities.
Staff Contact: Karen Sarkissian
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California Already Has a Basic Income Policy - It's Called the EITC and It Should Be Expanded
In recent years, there has been a growing discussion about using a "universal basic income" (UBI) as a means of addressing economic insecurity. Whether at the federal, state, or local level, a UBI policy would provide a direct cash payment to every person, regardless of their economic circumstances.
In a new post on California Budget Bites, the Budget Center's Alissa Anderson, Sara Kimberlin, and Chris Hoene examine the concept of a UBI and how California might best advance a basic income policy. This post points out that while a meaningful state-level universal basic income policy might not be financially feasible - and also would raise concerns as to expected outcomes - an ambitious targeted basic income approach could be both realistic and effective. The post further discusses how building on an existing support, the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), provides a way forward on basic income in California.
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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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The Importance of Child Care Safety Precautions
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ld care is a necessity for most working families, and millions of parents across the country rely on it each day. Parents of young children expect that providers have successfully passed a background check, are well-trained, and are recipients of regular inspections that ensure that the children in their care remain safe.
Child care safety protections have garnered bipartisan support. In 2014, Congress reauthorized the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and included additional safety protections for child care programs. States have also been making gradual progress toward improving child care standards. This issue brief discusses the importance of child care safety protections and explores how these protections can help ensure that parents are able to choose among child care providers who provide safe, high-quality child care. Deregulating the child care system would be a step in the wrong direction for families and providers alike, and millions of children's lives would be put at risk as a result.
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House GOP Tax Plan: A Bad Deal For Most of Us
The bill would
double the value of estates that is exempt from the estate tax, then repeal the tax altogether after six years. It would immediately deliver large tax cuts to the heirs of the nation's wealthiest estates.
This would give the very wealthiest estates a tax cut of up to $4.4 million per estate (for a married couple). That's about the same as the cost of 1,100 Pell Grants sending low-income students to college.
Middle- and low-income people would see little benefit from the overall tax plan, but they would bear much of the brunt of harm that's likely to be done at the state and local levels. That's a bad deal for most of us.
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A Tax Proposal That Can't Be Fixed
GOP leaders plan to bring the tax legislation to a vote by the entire House - which includes 14 Republican members from California - before Thanksgiving. This bill follows on the recent approval of a joint House and Senate budget resolution that included the overall GOP framework and allows for a "fast track" approval process, by which the tax package would be able to pass with no Democratic votes in either chamber of Congress.
Updated Meal Pattern (Required Starting October 1, 2017)
The updated meal standards for the CACFP was published in the Federal Register on Monday, April 25, 2016. CACFP centers and day care homes must comply with the updated meal standards by October 1, 2017.
Regulations
One-Page Summaries of the Updated Meal Standards
Updated Meal Standards Charts
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!
November 16, 2017- Redding
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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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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