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CAPPA's
2018-19 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
Leslie Reece
Family Resource & Referral of San Joaquin County
Jeanne Fridolfs
Napa County Office of Education
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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EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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December 5, 2018
November 30, 2018
Electronic banking option for provider reimbursement in Alternative Payment Programs (APPs)
November 21, 2018
November 8, 2018
Fiscal Year 2018-19 Request for Applications for General Child Care and Development Program Expansion Funds
MB 18-11:
Fiscal Year 2018-19, Request for Applications California State Preschool Program Expansion Funds
October 26, 2018
October 25, 2018
October 8, 2018
Contractors must mail or deliver one (1) application packet with original signature, and two (2) copies to the ELCD by Thursday, November 8, 2018.
The form for reporting General Child Care data (CDNFS 9500) has been posted to the Child Development and Nutrition
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December 2018 Featured Agency of the Month
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In our first year as a nonprofit
has changed over the last 40 years and so has the definition of DNCCC. Although our roots are grounded, we are flexible with the ever changing trends, needs and opportunities of our Community.
A Big thank you to Melodee Fugate, Executive Director, for the submission!
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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!
Children's Council San Francisco
Growing Place
Infant Child Enrichment Services
MCT Technology
Child Care Resource Center
Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County, Inc.
International Institute Los Angeles
Child Development Centers, Inc.
Pomona Unified School District- Child Development
Children's Council San Francisco
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:
NEW!
Final CAPPA Branding materials added to the Member's only site. APP logo, one-pager and info graphic.
Visit the
CAPPA Member's Only website for more information on this and other benefits available to CAPPA Members.
Mental Health in Early Childhood Education
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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.
If you have news to share or an event you want added to CAPPA's website calendar,
email us!
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The Power of Resilience and Flexibility in disastrous times
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It is hard to imagine that I wrote the words below almost a month ago.
 On November 8, 2018 at 6:30 am the most deadly fire in California history began. By 9:00 all the towns on the ridge (Paradise, Magalia, Concow, Cherokee...) were evacuated. With only a few exits out of the towns, the residents drove through the burning streets, unsure if they would make it to safety. The stories that have been heard are horrendous. I myself was evacuated on the evening of November 8th. I could see the flames from my driveway and as I packed up my animals and a few important papers, I felt it would be the last time I saw my home of 20+ years. However, I was lucky and our house was spared but thousands of people lost everything that day. The horrible, thick, black smoke hung over Butte County for weeks and everyone wore protective masks to avoid health problems. Tents and trailers began to assemble in parking lots, evacuation facilities filled quickly while the towns on the Ridge were destroyed. Despite the tragedy facing our County, staff at VOCS came to work, counted their blessings and served our community.
We listened to hundreds of stories, we cried, we comforted and we assisted members of our community. We have an outpouring of donations for families affected by the Camp Fire. We continue to receive: toys, diapers, stockings, gift cards, personal care items, children's clothes, jackets so many items to help our families recover. In addition our staff volunteered at the animal shelter set up at the airport, at evacuations centers, served meals on Thanksgiving, and staffed a VOCS booth at the old Sears building where FEMS, OES and many other services were set up for the survivors. We just are doing what comes naturally for us, serving our community, one day at a time. VOCS does not wait to be told how to help, we just jump in! We support each other! We get tired and cranky and a little depressed but we use an attitude of gratitude to keep moving forward. We are resilient. Our Last VOCS book club reading was
Option B by Cheryl Sandberg. We are living that theme every day!
Hope lives through survivors! We are survivors!
Here was my message to our funders on November 9th:
The last 2 days have been surreal for Butte County. Here are the facts we know today:
VOCS has remained opened since Thursday November 8th. We have 4 staff members who have lost their homes and a Go Fund Me Page has been set up for them on VOCS Facebook page.
Because we focus our staff training on Strengthening Families and Resilience, all 4 staff are at work today. It provides them with some normalcy despite their heavy losses.
We have many providers in the Paradise and Magalia towns that also have lost everything. No residents are allowed in either community. This is still a very active fire and the air is extremely dangerous to breathe. All public schools are closed in Butte County until after Thanksgiving. We anticipate many Paradise families using care in Chico or Oroville and many child care providers are serving school aged children since the schools are closed until December 3, 2018.
Our staff are contacting all providers and families in Butte County to check their status, openings etc. so we can update our referral list. Many have dropped off donations for families here and our staff are getting them to the evacuation centers that need them. Services are continuing and we are working to help Paradise families find care for the time being and offer an ear to listen. There is a great deal of loss in our county. Many services are needed. VOCS remains a flexible community organization offering hope one family at a time.
VOCS has on staff: Behavioral Health Counselor, A trauma Informed Care Trainer, Preventative Health and Safety Trainer, daily connection with Community Care Licensing, 5 child development specialists, 3 Resource and Referral Counselors, 13 Family Support Workers. Anyone at VOCS can assist a family in need.
Here are the Camp Fire Statistics:
- 25 Family Child care Homes destroyed
- 4 Child Care Centers destroyed
- 5 Exempt providers destroyed
- 3 Exempt Centers destroyed
- 150 VOCS families lost their homes
- 250 VOCS children in care lost their childcare
- Unknown how many school age siblings were displaced
- Referrals for our eligibility list has doubled
Karen L. Marlatt
CEO
Valley Oak Children's Services
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Request from Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom on California Priorities
We've dreamt big and planned hard, and now we're just weeks away from putting our vision into place. But the decision-making is far from over - we still have so much to finalize, and I don't want any of it done without your input. I want to hear directly from YOU about the way forward.
You're not just part of this state's future. You are California's future. So these next few weeks are when we really have to work together and not just talk, but do. I'm reaching out for your help here to make sure we're tackling the issues that affect every corner of California and we're improving government to work for everyone.
If you have a spare minute or two today, I'd really appreciate hearing straight from you. Can you let me know what's at the top of your list as we lay a foundation for our future?
Here's the link to a quick survey:
Thank you so much, as always,
Gavin
CAPPA Request: Make your voice heard. California's children from birth to five need access to child care and early education. Working families need access to child care in our 24-hour/seven day per week economy. Let our governor-elect know that access to child care and early learning opportunities starting at birth is not a nicety but a necessity.
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Our newly elected assemblymembers and senators convened last week to kick off our 2019-20 legislative cycle. In the time they were here, 210 legislative bills were introduced: 146 in the Assembly and 64 in the Senate.
In review of what has been introduced and the noted priority of our new governor-elect and stated priorities of legislators, it is encouraged that we all begin to think of our issues not in a silo but as integral parts with other priorities, such as secured housing, safe water and food, transportation and health care all needed by our most fragile of families and children starting at birth. For our families to achieve true self-sufficiency and children to be supported to be the healthiest they can be and attain higher educational benchmarks in the long term, all must be prioritized, funded and made accessible.
Below are some of the bills identified of interest to our field:
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Summary: Existing law establishes the California College Promise, under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, to provide funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to each community college meeting prescribed requirements. Existing law authorizes a community college to use that funding to waive some or all of the fees for one academic year for certain first-time students who are enrolled in 12 or more semester units or the equivalent at the college and complete and submit either a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or a California Dream Act application. This bill would instead authorize a community college to use California College Promise funding to waive fees for 2 academic years for these students.
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Summary: Existing law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903 (Dynamex), creates a presumption that a worker who performs services for a hirer is an employee. Existing law requires a 3-part test, commonly known as the "ABC" test, to establish that a worker is independent contractor. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to include provisions within this bill would codify the decision in the Dynamex case and clarify its application.
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AB 6 (Reyes) Early childhood education: Office of Early Childhood Education.
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Summary: Existing law designates the State Department of Education as the single state agency responsible for the promotion, development, and provision of care of children in the absence of their parents during the workday or while engaged in other activities which require assistance of a 3rd party or parties.This bill would establish in the department the Office of Early Childhood Education in order to ensure a holistic implementation of early childhood education programs and universal preschool. The bill would require the office to have specified responsibilities, including the responsibility of coordinating services with the State Department of Social Services and the California Health and Human Services Agency, to ensure that social and health services are provided to children in early childhood education programs and to identify families eligible for early childhood education financial assistance.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Every Kid Counts College Savings Program, which requires the Student Aid Commission to implement and administer a grant program that supports local governments and other entities that sponsor one or more comprehensive citywide or regional children's savings account programs to help families, especially low-income families with young children, establish and maintain college savings accounts.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to establish a universal statewide children's savings account program, established for each child at entrance into kindergarten, to ensure that California's children and families save, build assets, and achieve economic mobility.
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Summary: The California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to incentivize systems that better facilitate communication and partnerships between businesses, labor advocates, and educational institutions for the purpose of creating tailored workforce training programs that both increase worker participation and further the attainment of increased skills. The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various programs that provide cash assistance and other benefits relating to health care, food, and housing, among other things, to qualified low-income families and individuals, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act (CalWORKs program), the California Earned Income Tax Credit, Medi-Cal, CalFresh, the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program), and the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program. This bill would declare the Legislature's intent to enact legislation that would establish a Targeted Child Tax Credit as recommended by the task force .This bill contains other existing laws.
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AB 123 (McCarty) Early childhood education: state preschool program: transitional kindergarten: access: standards.
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Summary: The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive. Existing law requires the Superintendent to administer all California state preschool programs, which include part-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children, as provided. Existing law provides that 3- and 4-year-old children are eligible for the state part-day preschool program if the family meets one of several eligibility requirements, including income eligibility. Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. Existing law requires, in the 2014-15 school year and each school year thereafter, and as a condition of receipt of apportionments for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, a child who will have his or her 5th birthday between September 2 and December 2 to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program maintained by a school district or charter school.This bill would make various findings and declarations regarding early childhood education and would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do certain things relating to early childhood education, including expanding the state preschool program and enabling local educational agencies to blend the program with transitional kindergarten.
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Summary: The Child Care and Development Services Act has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support service through full- and part-time programs. The act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, which include part-day age and developmentally appropriate programs designed to facilitate the transition to kindergarten for 3- and 4-year-old children. Existing law establishes the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund in the State Treasury to provide funding for loans for the renovation, repair, or improvement of an existing building to make the building suitable for licensure for child care and development services, and for the purchase of new relocatable child care facilities, as provided. This bill would enact the Preschool Facilities Bond Act of 2020 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $500,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a preschool facility grant program. This bill contains other related provisions.
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Summary: Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement a plan establishing assigned reimbursement rates, per unit of average daily enrollment, to be paid by the state to provider agencies for the provision of those services.This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish a single regionalized state reimbursement rate system for childcare, preschool, and early learning services that would achieve specified objectives.
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Summary: Under existing law, various agencies administer programs to preserve and expand safe and affordable housing opportunities and promote sound community growth.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would limit restrictive local land use policies and legislation that would encourage increased housing development near transit and job centers, in a manner that ensures that every jurisdiction contributes its fair share to a housing solution, while acknowledging relevant differences among communities.
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Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity to federal income tax law, authorizes a credit for household and dependent care expenses necessary for gainful employment, as provided. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2025, for a taxpayer with an allowable credit in excess of tax liability, would allow a payment to the taxpayer in excess of that credit amount, subject to the annual Budget Act or a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Act, as provided, not to exceed a specified amount.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various entities and programs to provide assistance to homeless persons, including, among others, the Homeless Emergency Aid Program, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program, homeless youth emergency service pilot projects, and the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that creates a right to shelter for unhoused residents throughout the state, which would be required to include the navigation center model. The bill would state the purposes of this legislation, including ensuring that every person living on California's streets has the ability to promptly secure shelter that is safe and supportive. The bill would specify certain elements that this right to shelter would include. The bill would specify that the right to shelter is not intended to be in lieu of prioritizing permanent housing for people who lack housing.
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Public Charge Early Childhood Template for Public Comments
Our friends at CLASP have put together some very helpful resources for all of us to participate and send our comments during the public charge open comment period. Submitting organizational and individual comments is crucial as its a way to make our voices heard and make it clear that immigrant children and their families could be greatly affected if this proposed rule is finalized.
More background and action items:
On October 10, the long-anticipated "public charge" proposed rule was published in the federal register for a 60-day comment period. The rule proposes to expand the forms of public assistance that are counted in a "public charge" determination, which may be used to deny individuals entrance to the United States or lawful permanent residency. It establishes standards for income, health, age, and English language proficiency for immigrant families seeking long-term stability. If enacted, the rule would make immigrant families afraid to seek programs-such as Medicaid and SNAP-that keep children and families healthy and fundamentally change who we are as a nation.
This proposal will have a major impact on millions of young children in immigrant families.
Please find attached template comments written especially for the early childhood field. We ask that you modify these comments to reflect your unique perspective or expertise and have included prompts in the template for you to do that. The
Protecting Immigrant Families
campaign is using a sector-based strategy for generating a large number of unique comments in opposition to this rule. Template comments are being written from the perspective of 40+ different sectors. If you receive more than one template for commenting, we encourage you to use the template or sections of the templates that are most relevant to your expertise or perspective. By law, every unique comment must be read and considered by the federal government. Public comments must be submitted to the federal register by December 10th.
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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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Regional Technical Assistance Trainings-Fall 2018
December 11th
Bakersfield
Community Connection for Child Care- Kern County Supt. of Schools
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!
This series will offer a variety of Hot topics for the field and ALL staff are encouraged to attend.
If you would like to add any topics to the agenda, please let us know!
Agenda:
Best Practices Session (10:00am-11:45am):
- 12-month initial and recertification - Do you still have questions?
- Provider Reimbursements
- Technology
- Where are you with direct deposit?
- Digital signatures
- Moving towards a paperless work environment
- How to strengthen communications between parents and providers
- Lunch (11:45am-12:15pm)
- CAPPA Political Update and Election Discussion (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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Child Care Advocacy Day
January 23, 2019
9:30am-4:00pm
California Endowment Building - Downtown
Sacramento
We invite you to partner with those noted above for a Child Care Advocacy Day!
The day will begin with an expert panel sharing their input, reactions and top priorities on the 2019-20 Governor's Budget.
In order for us to be successful securing more services for families and children, we must work together, collect the data, and educate our elected officials about the past successes we have had, but of huge unmet need that still must be addressed.
In the morning we will hear from experts about what Governor-elect has proposed in his January budget. We then will have time to ask questions and discuss our collective strategy for meeting with legislators in the afternoon. The legislative meeting times will be set up and you simply need to share with us who you would like to meet with, i.e., your elected representatives. It is encouraged that if you have district specific information relevant to a specific legislator, bring it.
Finally, in the afternoon, we are working to schedule for legislators and those interested a showing of the child care documentary
No Small Matter. This showing is the first major theatrical documentary to kick start the public conversation about early car and education.
Planned Schedule of Events
CAPPA staff will be scheduling the legislative visits. You will receive a schedule, room assignments, and legislative advocacy packet when you check in. If you have a specific member you would like to visit, click here.
9:30am: Check in at the California Endowment- 1414 K Street,
Suite 500, Sacramento, CA 95814
9:45am-12:00pm: Opening remarks and budget panel discussions
12:00pm-12:30pm: Legislative "prep-talk" and lunch
1:00pm-4:00pm: Legislative Visits
1:30pm: Tentatively planned at 1:30pm in the State Capitol we will be showing
Interested in Sponsoring this Event?
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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.
Topic for December 2018:
Mental Health in Early Childhood Education
Ash Archambeau, Youth Program Director & Teacher, Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies Kids Programs
The science of child development shows that the foundation for sound mental health is built early in life, as early experiences-which include children's relationships with parents, caregivers, relatives, teachers, and peers-shape the architecture of the developing brain. Disruptions in this developmental process can impair a child's capacities for learning and relating to others, with lifelong implications. During this webinar we will discuss;
- What is mental health in early childhood?
- Getting in early for children's mental health
- Mental health difficulties in early childhood
- What causes children's mental health difficulties?
- What parents and caregivers can do
- Where can I learn more?
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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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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