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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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October 2017 Featured Agency of the Month:
Community Resources for Children
Community Resources for Children (CRC) is a nonprofit, community-based organization providing resources for the early care and education of children in Napa County. Established in 1978, CRC serves more than 4,300 people annually by supporting families in need of child care and by promoting quality early learning environments for children ages 0-5.
In addition to the Alternative Payment Program, CRC administers the Resource and Referral program for Napa County and promotes quality early learning through a variety of programs.
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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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Social Media & Marketing for Child Care Providers
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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smile.amazon.com
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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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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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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 Beth Ciaro
Beth Ciaro, Subsidy Programs Director for Child Care Resource Center, has been in her current position for 12 years, and in the field for 13. She has also been a Stage 1 Program manager and her agency has been a part of CAPPA since CAPPA's inception. Beth became a board member because she is passionate about creating a stable Child Care Program to improve the lives of children and families within California.
She brings with her 25 years of Grant Writing and Grant Administration and rich experience through participation in CDE work groups.
Her vision for CAPPA is to contribute to seeing CAPPA become the lead organization which advocates for resolutions to the issues experiences by vulnerable families and children. She brings over 30 years of experience in the Social Services field and has a broad understanding of children and families served within subsidy programs, along with the constraints of State and Federal regulations. Her knowledge and experience brings with it an understanding of the social and political climates which affect the work all APP agencies do to improve the lives of the participants in our programs. As a CAPPA board member, her goal is to help facilitate the vision of the organization in working towards a united voice in order to maintain and improve the services provided to families.
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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 total of 4 individual bills chaptered that grant 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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GOP Tax and Budget Plans Would Benefit the Rich and Unfairly Burden Low- and Middle-Income Families
In recent weeks, the US Senate and the House of Representatives both have approved budget resolutions that pave the way for deep tax cuts as well as significant reductions in support for health care, food assistance, and other supports that help families to afford the basics.
While the details of proposed federal tax legislation will be developed over the next couple months, President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have already expressed support for a tax framework that heavily favors the wealthy.
In the first in a series on emerging federal tax and budget proposals, the California Budget & Policy Center today published a new post from Executive Director Chris Hoene and State Policy Fellow Esi Hutchful that discusses the combination of tax cuts and reduced support for critical public services that is being put forth by the Trump Administration and congressional leaders - and its implications for California and the nation.
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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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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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2017 Joint Network and CAPPA Annual Conference
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Joint Conference Overall Evaluation
On behalf of the Network and CAPPA, we want to thank you for attending the 5th Annual Joint Conference on October 18-20, 2017 at the DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento!
We hope that you found the conference informative and worthwhile. Your presence helped to make this event a great success and your enthusiasm and positive spirit helped make our time together both productive and fun.
In order to make next year's conference even more successful we request that you fill out both the post-event survey and the individual workshop evaluations below. We thank you in advance for your comments and suggestions and we assure you that each will be given consideration so that future conferences and events will be even more of a success.
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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 6, 2017- Fairfield
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.
October 2017 Webinar:
Social Media & Marketing for Child Care Providers
During this webinar, we will discuss how to use social media marketing to attract clients, retain clients, and build a top reputation in your community. We will discuss how to set up, maintain, and establish safety precautions and protocols for using social media networks. Participants will learn how social media networks can help create positive buzz about their child care program.
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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