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Issue #4 January 22, 2018
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"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing"
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A BIG THANK YOU to all that attended
CAPPA's 2018 Budget and Advocacy Day!
CAPPA would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to to all that participated last Thursday in legislative visits, educating lawmakers and advocating to make child care and early education a priority, and for sharing CAPPA's budget and policy priorities! Collectively, we were able to connect to 70 plus legislative offices in ONE DAY, and this would not have been possible without all of you. In addition, thank you to our expert group of panelists and speakers from California Department of Education, Department of Finance, Legislative Analyst's Office, California Budget and Policy Center, The Legislative Women's Caucus, Legislative Republican's office, and Western Center on Law and Poverty.
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Federal Advocacy Opportunity! A message from the Child Care Law Center:
Please consider signing on today.
We are trying to get at least one hundred signatures , as it is of the utmost importance that we let our champions in Congress know we support this bold ask.
The deadline is Jan 24.
Support CCDBG Increase in 2018 Appropriations!
Please take a moment today to help increase funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant.
Congressional Democrats and Republicans are beginning to negotiate the final year-end omnibus federal spending bill. Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren have proposed doubling the discretionary funding for CCDBG - an increase of $2.9 billion. Please add your organization's name to the dozens who have already signed on.*
Now is our chance to increase the sequestration caps that have been crippling funding for child care, health care, and many other programs that children and families rely on.
Read more background information here.
Your organization can sign on to the Child Care Law Center letter or
download the letter and send it on your own letterhead to your Representative.
Thank you for taking action in 2018 -
The Child Care Law Center Team
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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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EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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January 20, 2018
A manuel letter containing revisions CDSS' Eligibility and Assistance Standards Manual has been uploaded onto the Departments' website.
Click here
for more information.
January 12, 2018
CDSS has scheduled a public hearing for February 28, 2018, to receive testimony on the "CalWORKs Program: Subsidized Employment, Approved Career Pathways and Post-Aid Services" regulations package.
January 10, 2018
CDE announces 4 all new webinar-based trainings:
ALL COUNTY LETTER (ACL) 17-125. Guidance exempts benefits and related allowances received from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for education, training, vocation or rehabilitation from consideration as income when determining CalWORKs eligibility and calculating grant amounts for veterans, dependents of veterans and spouses, under specified circumstances.
The State Advisory Council on Early Learning and Care (SAC) will now be meeting 3 times per year. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 28, 2018. See future meeting dates
The purpose of this All County Letter (ACL) is to notify the County Welfare Departments (CWDs) of changes to the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) benefiting low-income working families and individuals and their impact on the CalWORKs and CalFresh 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!
Solano Family & Children's Services
North Coast Opportunities-Lake County
Children's Council of San Francisco
Child Care Coordinating Council, Inc. of San Mateo County
International Institute Los Angeles
Go Kids, Inc., Gilroy
YMCA Metropolitan Los Angeles
Fresno County Superintendent of Schools
Child Development Inc. is Hiring! See the Recruitment Flyer
Here.
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NEW!
All new AP branding templates
from CAPPA's Branding Committee are now available for CAPPA members.
NEW!
Curriculum Development for Early Childhood Education
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Here.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you for your support!
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Featured Agency of the Month! Sierra Nevada Children's Services
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Sierra Nevada Children's Services (SNCS) is a private, community-based nonprofit child care resource and referral agency that has served families, early care and education professionals and the community since 1978. Our mission is to enrich the community by supporting quality child care and empowering families to aspire to lifelong success. SNCS administers multiple programs to support parents, caregivers, and childcare providers in Nevada and Sierra Counties.
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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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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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State Legislation
This week, California Assembly and Senate floor sessions will convene on Monday and Thursday.
To date, for the 2017-18 Legislative Session, the California State Assembly has introduced 1,895 Assembly Bills (including 1162 new ones in 2018) and the State Senate has introduced 912 Senate Bills (including 95 in 2018).
Click here
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. To track and/or review legislation or to create your own tracking list,
click here.
Bills of interest to the child care and early education field are as follows:
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AB 1183 (Weber) Child care and development services: military families: alternative payment programs.
*CAPPA sponsored bill.
This bill would clarify that military basic allowance for housing (BAH) of a person who is on state or federal active duty, active duty for special work, or Active Guard and Reserve duty in the military not be considered income for purposes of determining child care eligibility. This change is consistent with the IRS that also lists BAH as one of the tax-exempt military allowances not considered as earned income when determining eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Head Start and other assistance programs.
- AB 605 (Mullin) Day care center: birth to first grade license option - This bill would create a single integrated license for child care centers thus reducing vacancies and enabling the current system to serve more children. BACKGROUND: In the 1970s, California led the nation in creating a licensing system for community care facilities, and pioneered recognition of the special needs of infants and toddlers with a license distinct from that of preschool-age care. While the standard of care in California statute remains appropriate, the bifurcation of early care licensing in California into two separate licenses is unnecessary and problematic. California is one of only two states in the country which employ a separate infant-toddler license, and family child care providers are not subject to the dual-license requirement.
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AB-1754 (McCarty) Pre-K for All Act of 2018
- Pre-K for All Act of 2018. The intent of this bill is to to ensure a fair start to all low-income children by providing quality early care and education for all low-income children whose families wish to enroll them in early care and education programs.
- SB-837 Transitional kindergarten: enrollment for 4-year-olds - Essentially, this bill is seeking to expand enrollment in Transitional Kindergarten to younger 4-year-olds.This bill would require progressively younger 4-year-old pupils to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program maintained by a school district or charter school, as provided, until, in the 2022-23 school year and each school year thereafter, the bill would require all 4-year-old pupils to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program maintained by a school district or charter school. The bill would authorize, from the 2015-16 school year to the 2021-22 school year, inclusive, a 4-year-old child who is not required to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program, as provided.
Upcoming dates of importance in regards to 2-year bills:
- All of these bills have to be out of their house of origin by January 31st.
For child care and early education, our need and our ask is quite simple...
WHAT DO WE WANT...CHILD CARE SLOTS!!!
WHEN DO WE WANT 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.
CAPPA's priorities will be:
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To increase the number of and access to subsidized child care slots to address a huge unmet need for working families -
In 2015, an estimated 1.5 million children from birth through age 12 were eligible for care, according to a Budget Center analysis of federal survey data. In California's Alternative Payment voucher program and General Child Care there are fewer than 33,000 child care slots allocated to support working poor families.
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Building
workforce
capacity of providers with livable rates that are at least comparable to the minimum wage
The fact is that infant and toddler care is an extremely low profit area. For a child care provider, costs are high when factoring in housing, supplies, insurance and labor. State law requires that child care center providers maintain a ratio of one staff member for every four children under 18 months and one staff member to every six children who are under 18 months to three years. The ratio is one staff member to every 12 children for preschool aged three and four.
In California, the state's minimum wage is increased to $11.00 per hour beginning January 1, 2018. Infant/toddler full time child care rates vary from region to region, but average $9.16 an hour in a child care center, $5.70 an hour in a family child care home, and $3.99 in a family, friend and neighbor licensed-exempt care.
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alue all child care and early education providers and centers with rates that recognize the value of their contributions to children, while meeting the financial requirements of operating small businesses as state and local minimum wage increases
State Budget Update
will be available to CAPPA Members and subscribers only. On this new and improved webpage, CAPPA will begin hosting enhanced budget information and strategic communications. Annual subscriptions will be available to non-members for $50/year.
On Wednesday, January 10, Governor Brown released his
Click
here to read the summary and
here
for detail.
Upcoming Budget hearings are as follows:
- January 23: State Assembly Budget Committee: Overview of the Governor's 2018 Budget
Assemblymember Phillip Ting, Chair
10 a.m. to 12 noon - State Capitol, Room 4202
California Budget & Policy Center: Our Analysis of Governor's Proposed Budget
On January 10, Governor Jerry Brown released a proposed 2018-19 budget that prioritizes building up reserves amid deep uncertainty about looming federal budget proposals, the impacts of the recently enacted federal tax bill, and future economic conditions. The Governor forecasts revenues that are $4.2 billion higher (over a three-year "budget window" from 2016-17 to 2018-19) than previously projected in the 2017-18 budget enacted last June, driven largely by continued economic growth. The Governor's budget assumes no changes to current federal policies and funding levels and is not yet able to account for the potential impacts of the Republican tax bill passed in late December.
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Federal
Federal Government Shut Down- The Federal Government will enter a third day of a partial shut-down as votes to pass a spending bill fell short and weekend negotiations failed to break an impasse. At the helm of this shut done, lies disagreement between Senate Democrats and Republicans over extending the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), for low-income children.
On Thursday January 18, 2018, the House had passed H.R. 195, the vehicle for the Continuing Resolution (CR), by a primarily party-line vote of 230-197 vote. Eleven Republicans voted in opposition, while 6 Democrats voted in favor.
The CR, as passed by the House, would extend government funding until February 16, and would extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for 6 years.
In the Senate, some GOP lawmakers voiced opposition to the CR because repeated short-term funding measures harm the military, while Democrats opposed the bill because it does not address the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which currently protects about 800,000 young immigrants born outside of the United States.
Federal funding for roughly 850,000 non-essential federal workers and government operations ceased as of midnight Friday. Negotiations on a way out of the impasse continued throughout the weekend, but how long the shutdown will last is unknown. The last government shutdown was in 2013, and lasted for 16 days.
In the immediate, it is unknown of the impact the shutdown will have on child care specifically. What has been reported is should the shutdown extend into February, federal grants for Head Start programs would lack funding.
The sad fact is that families across the United States are struggling to afford high-quality child care and child care teachers are having trouble taking care of their own families. Meanwhile, Congress rammed through a tax bill that provides massive giveaways for corporations but little to no relief for families facing these high costs. And there is still no movement on raising wages for the people who do this work. We need a real solution.
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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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SAVE THE DATE!
CAPPA Statewide Meeting, in partnership with CDE
April 5, 2018
The Village Conference Center
Pomona Unified School District
9:30am-2:30pm
Registration will be available soon!
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ALL NEW! 2018 Early Learning & Child Care Webinar Series
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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 2018 at an affordable price in an
incredibly convenient format.
Click Here
to see more details and to
register for the all new 2018 series.
January 2018 Webinar:
Curriculum Development for Early Childhood Education
Jamie Apostol, M.A., Faculty CSULB Departments of Child Development & Family Studies and Human Development
During this webinar, you will learn how to equip, plan, and implement a developmentally appropriate curriculum and learning environment for young children. Explore techniques for practicing positive guidance, planning successful group experiences, and facilitating cultural diversity within the classroom setting. Emphasis is on developing a child-centered, integrated, and developmentally appropriate curriculum for the early years. A variety of curricular approaches will be modeled and assessed.
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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California Department of Education - Upcoming Webinars
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- Webinar: Webinar for the California Child Care Study, January 24, 2018
- Webinar: Eligibility, Certification, Recertification, and Notice of Action, January 25, 2018
- Webinar: Need and Fees, January 25, 2018
- Afternoon Session only
Time: 1:00pm
Register HERE.
Event Number: 661 888 769
Event Password: 147426
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Join with Other Early Care and Education Advocates for Early Learning Advocacy Day.
Registration fee ($50) includes keynote presenter, education, morning snacks and lunch, followed by legislative visits.
Confirmed Speaker: 
Kristin Shumacher, Policy Analyst
California Budget and Policy Center
Kristin Schumacher joined the Budget Center as a policy analyst in 2013. Prior to joining the Budget Center, she taught public policy and public administration courses in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver and held research positions with the University and the Feminist Majority Foundation. She also worked in fundraising and development with the Colorado AIDS Project in Denver. She received a PhD in public affairs from the University of Colorado Denver and a master's degree in social work with an emphasis in policy and administration from the University of Texas, Austin.
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