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Introducing 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:
Martin Castro
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation
Rick Richardson
Child Development Associates
Karen Marlatt
Valley Oak Children's Services
Trudy Adair- Verbais
Santa Barbara County Education Office
Beth Chiaro
Child Care Resource Center
Tina Barna
Choices for Children
Abby Shull
YMCA Childcare Resource Service
Jeffrey Moreira
Crystal Stairs, Inc.
Phillip Warner
Children's Council San Francisco
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
Newly Elected
LaVera Smith
Supportive Services Fresno
Newly Elected
Jasmine Tijerino
San Mateo 4Cs
Newly Elected
Michelle Graham
Children's Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County
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EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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April 13, 2017
New Travel Rates effective January 2017- for EESD
Contractors
April 12, 2017
CalWORKS Stage One Child Care Best Practices
April 7, 2017
The California Department of Social Services has scheduled a public hearing for May 24, 2017, to receive testimony on the Calculating Overpayments in the CalWORKs Program (ORD #0716-08) regulations; details can be found by clicking
April 6, 2017
TO: Holders of the Eligibility and Assistance Standards (EAS) Manual, Division 40
CDSS MANUAL LETTER NO. EAS-17-03
Starting with Section 40-105
April 4, 2017
Subject:
Fiscal Year 2016-17 Request for Applications (RFA), California Renovation and Repair Loan Program
March 24, 2017
Subject:
Fiscal Year 2016-17 Program Self-Evaluation
Subject: Fiscal Year 2016-17 Request for Applications (RFA), Round Three California State Preschool (CSPP) Expansion Funds
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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 Development Inc. is Hiring! See the Recruitment Flyer
Here.
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Developing Early Childhood Training Workshops for Staff and Families
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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
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To help support the CAPPA Board and your Board of Directors moving forward, we have a couple volunteer opportunities for CAPPA Members to sit on one of our Committees and Subcommittees.
Learn more about the CAPPA Committees
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Featured Agency of the Month
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Child Care Links is a Resource and Referral agency located in Alameda County, established in 1976 in response to the State of California's interest in creating innovative systems to deliver quality child care services to low-income families. The agency's dedication to its mission statement of providing support and resources to the Tri-Valley community is consistently seen in its growing efforts to provide innovative services to a diverse population. The agency has built a strong foundation to serve children and families in the community through various programs.
(Big thanks to Laura Page for the submission!)
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.
If you would like to be featured please
email us!
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If you have news to share or an event you want added to CAPPA's website Calendar,
North Coast Opportunities:
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Child Care & Early Learning Master Calendar
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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 that you would like added to CAPPA's website calendar, let us know!
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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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California
This week, California Assembly and Senate floor sessions will convene on Monday and Thursday.
Upcoming child care, early education and related issues main budget hearing days are as follows:
- Tuesday, April 25, 2017 @ 9:00 - ASM Budget Sub 2 on Education: After School Programs
- Tuesday, May 2, 2017 @ 9:00 - ASM Budget Sub 2 on Education: Technology
- Wednesday, May 3, 2017 @ 2:30 - ASM Budget Sub 1 On Health And Human Services - CalWORKs
- Thursday May 11, 2017 @ 9:30 - SEN Budget Sub 1 pm Education - Department of Education
Click here to read all related budget hearings and budget related information.
Prior Budget Hearings:
Click here to read Legislative Women's Caucus Press Release
Click here to read Legislative Latino Caucus Press Release, where
AB 60 was named as 2017 priority legislation.
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 also will be noting legislative hearings of interest to our field. To track and/or review legislation or to create your own tracking list,
click here.
Bills identified as of high interest to our field include:
AB 60 (Santiago & Gonzalez)
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This bill updates income eligibility guidelines that have been frozen for over a decade, taking into account the new minimum wage, and streamlines reporting requirements to minimize disruptions for children, parents, employers and child care providers.
AB 60 Resource Page.
AB 160 (Stone) - This bill would restore CalWORKS eligibility from 48 months to 60.
AB 227 (Mayes) - This bill would create the Educational Opportunity and Attainment Program that would provide education incentive grants to CalWORKs recipients to encourage and support low-income parents who reach certain educational goals and create additional work-study slots and support services for CalWORKs recipients pursuing their education.
AB 273 (Aguiar- Curry) - Child care services: eligibility. This bill would include in the area relating to need, as a requirement that may be satisfied for purposes of eligibility, that the family needs the child care services because the parents are engaged in an educational program for English as a second language learners or to attain a high school diploma or general educational development certificate.
AB 603 (Quirk-Silva) - This bill would require alternative payment programs to: develop an electronic
timesheet process for the monthly attendance record or invoices, offer the electronic time sheet process to child care providers, offer to reimburse the child care provider via a direct deposit transfer into the child care provider's financial institution account.
AB 1106 (Weber) - This bill will allow allocated monies to support working families with child care, to be distributed over a longer period of time. Additionally, the proposal will allow active military personnel to not have their basic housing allowance considered as part of their income when they apply for a child care subsidy.
AB 1164 (Thurmond) -
Foster care placement: funding. This bill would establish the Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children (bridge program). The bill would authorize county welfare departments to administer the bridge program and distribute vouchers to children between birth and 4 years of age, placed with an approved resource family or the child of a young parent involved in the child welfare system.
To watch live coverage of the Assembly and Senate click here.
The legislature has begun work on framing the legislative and budgetary priorities for the upcoming 2017-18 session. Click here to see the upcoming calendar. Please feel free to forward to us any trainings, conferences or meetings that you think would be beneficial to our field.
On March 17, 2017,
Policy Analyst Kristin Schumacher attended the California Child Development Coalition Retreat in Sacramento to deliver her presentation:
Areas covered included: Economic growth and decline data, poverty rates in California, the importance of affordable child care and preschool, child care costs in relation to income, cuts and reinvestments made to CalWORKs, Child Care, and Preschool during and
after
the Great Recession, information on slots, and the income eligibility limit.
Last month, President Trump released a budget blueprint - the so-called "skinny budget" - that laid out his administration's priorities for federal funding. As part of this blueprint, President Trump calls for eliminating two key K-12 education programs that are targeted to learners from low-income families.
Federal
The White House and congressional leaders seem headed for a clash ahead of an April 28 deadline to stave off a government shutdown, with budget negotiations on the Hill threatening to derail over the administration's push to crack down on sanctuary cities, cut federal agency spending and increase funding for a border wall.
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has reportedly told lawmakers the White House wants to see the must-pass spending bill restrict funding to cities that have sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with federal officials on immigration enforcement. Such a provision would be met by Democrats as a "poison pill," and they have vowed to block any legislation that includes it, Politico reported Wednesday.
CLASP estimates that an increase of $1.4 billion is needed in FY 2018 to fully fund the CCDBG reauthorization without further reducing the number of children served. Implementing the CCDBG Act in 2018 will cost an estimated $775 million.6 This does not account for the costs of maintaining current caseloads. CLASP also estimates an additional $612 million would be necessary to prevent additional children from losing child care assistance. 7 Our estimate assumes the costs of maintaining a caseload of 1.4 million children-although insufficient investments in 2016 and 2017 could already have resulted in a further reduction in children served.
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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EESD Confidentiality of Records Regulations
Pursuant to the requirements of Government Code section 11346.4(a), the State Superintendent of Public Instruction is providing notice of the proposed regulatory action with regards to the above-entitled regulations. The proposed regulatory action can be found HERE.
The 45- day public comment period begins on APril 22, 2017 and ends on June 5, 2017.
*CAPPA requests that any comments that are submitted be cc'ed to us as well
(click here) so that we may be aware of your concerns. We, too, will be providing a response.
CLICK HERE to be directed to CAPPA's regulations web page where we will be posting regular updates as we receive them.
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Hosted by: CA coalition for Equity in Early Care and Education & California Coalition for Equity in Early Care and Education
When:
Monday, April 24 at 10AM - 1PM
Where: California State Capitol
1315 10th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Whether you are an ECE teacher or administrator, a parent or an advocate, come join us as we rally to advocate for more funding for early care and education in California!
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Upcoming State Advisory Council Meeting
When:
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 : 9:00am - 12:00pm
Where: California Department of Social
Services
744 P Street, Auditorium, rm 9-02-205
Sacramento, CA 95814
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Early Learning and Educational Support Stakeholder Group
When:
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 : 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Where: California Department of Social
Services
744 P Street, Auditorium, rm 9-02-205
Sacramento, CA 95814
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Members Only: "Insights and Advocacy" Call: Federal Child Care and Early Education Updates
Who:
Hannah Matthews, Director of Child Care and Early Education, Center for Law and Social Policy (
CLASP)- a national, nonpartisan, anti-poverty organization advancing policy solutions that work for low-income people
When: Friday, April 28th 10- 11:00am
Where: Conference Call
Topics covered: Federal budget, appropriations and legislative updates, and CCDBG implementation.
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Joint Annual Conference 2017
October 18-20, 2017
DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento
Hotel Reservations:
Our room block at the DoubleTree is already sold out. We are currently working on 3 separate overflow hotels. If you are still in need of a room, please email
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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.
April 2017 Webinar:
Developing Early Childhood Training Workshops for Staff and Families
The knowledge and skills of child care workers are significant factors in how children are prepared for entry into school, amongst other things. For this reason, ongoing professional development of staff is crucial, in addition to providing the same consistent information to parents. This workshop will show you how to take initiative in developing workshops for two of the most prevailing forces in a child's life.
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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