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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.
If you would like to be featured please email us by clicking
here!
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May 2017 Featured Agency of the Month!
The International Institute of Los Angeles
The International Institute of Los Angeles (IILA) makes a real difference in the world. IILA was founded in 1914 to find solutions to the challenges facing newly arrived refugees and immigrants. In the last century, we have helped hundreds of thousands of new arrivals and low income families in Los Angeles County, to overcome the barriers they face in becoming successful and contributing members in our society. IILA offers hope to the faces of children in our preschool and full day care programs, offers assistance to seniors and others with their utility and phone bill charges, and offers a helping hand to newly arrived immigrants and refugees who resettle here and begin their first job with our help.
IILA has changed the lives of so many people by giving our participants a new start in life...a new beginning.
Learn more about International Institute and their various programs
HERE.
(Big thank you to Susan Eckert for the submission!)
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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!
Fill out the employment application Here.
Solano Family & Children's Services
Child Development Inc. is Hiring! See the Recruitment Flyer
Here.
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Getting to the Heart of Good Leadership
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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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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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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, 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 information including hearing information, budget bill language, trailer bill language, and other related information.
Budget priorities are:
- Support funding for child care programs in this year's budget and holding the Administration to their promise of continued funding
- Increase all provider rates
- Increase the State Median Income (SMI)
- Allow contracting for 0-5 child care and early education to be delivered by California's mixed delivery system
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.
The California Budget & Policy Center is committed to promoting a greater understanding of budgeting and policymaking processes, with an eye toward broadening engagement in these deliberations. This is the idea underlying our popular guide and infographic on the state budget process.
We're pleased to now release a similar resource - and a companion infographic - on county budgeting in California. Dollars and Democracy: A Guide to the County Budget Process provides an overview of the year-round county budget cycle; details the roles of the key players (including the authority counties have to raise local revenues); and lays out the timeline for county budgeting as well as opportunities for input. Read the county guide.
Federal
Following widespread criticism that its benefits were weighted toward the very
wealthy, the Trump Administration appears to be pivoting from an earlier child care tax deduction proposal to one based on tax credits. This proposal is couched within a blueprint for tax reform that would give enormous tax cuts to wealthy Americans and corporations. But a modest step towards addressing child care affordability for some families cannot compensate for the Administration's overall tax and budget proposals that put low-income families at grave risk of economic insecurity and hardship.
The new child care proposal is
reported to expand the value of the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (DCTC) and potentially make it refundable so more low-income families could benefit. The DCTC allows parents to claim a tax credit for a portion of their child or dependent care expenses. Details of the plan are not yet available, along with other components of the proposal. A plan to improve the DCTC would be markedly better than the prior tax deduction proposal; yet, this proposal on its own would likely leave millions of low-income working families still struggling to pay the high costs of child care.
How much do you kno
w about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
Since its inception in the early 1960's, when it was known as the Food Stamp Program, SNAP has proven to be the singular most effective anti-ginger program in the county.
At ThisIsSNAP.org you will find:
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Faces of SNAP: Video testimonials from SNAP participants, do
ctors, business people, and others who see the benefits of SNAP every day.
- The Case Against Block Grants: An interview with SNAP expert Jared Bernstein on how policymakers can preserve SNAP's ability to respond quickly to economic hardship.
- What's SNAP Called In Your State? Dig into what SNAP looks like in your state and who it helps.
This is just a sampling of the the resources and data on ThisIsSNAP.org. Please visit and explore all the data and stories to discover how SNAP has helped improved the lives of millions and see some of the faces of people who count on this proven and cost-effective program.
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
EESD Confidentiality of Records Regulations: "Package 1" of the California Code of Regulations, Title 5 has been submitted to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL).
The package contains the following sections:
- 18117: Confidentiality of Records
- 18246: Confidentiality of Information
OAL Notice Registers can be found HERE. the proposed change to Title 5 can be found in Register 2017, No. 16-Z, April 21, 2017 beginning on page 569.
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 public commentary period begins on April 22, 2017 and ends on June 5, 2017. Please feel free to forward comments to CAPPA, so that we may be aware of your concerns, as well will be providing a response, as well. A public hearing will be held on June 5, 2017 at 1:30pm at 1430 N Street, Room 1801, Sacramento, CA.
*CDE, EESD's Title 5 Web Page, can be found HERE.
*CLICK HERE to be directed to CAPPA's regulations web page where we will be posting regular updates and resources as we receive them.
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CONTINGENCY FUNDS APPLICATION PROCESS
The purpose of this letter is to provide alternative payment program (APP) contractors with information regarding the process to apply for contingency funds.
Pursuant to Education Code Section 8222.1, per the Budget Act of 2016, the CDE shall reallocate funds as necessary to reimburse APPs (excluding CalWORKs) for actual and allowable costs incurred for additional services. An APP may apply for reimbursement of up to three (3) percent of their contract amount, or for a greater amount subject to the discretion of the Department, based on availability of funds. Applications may be submitted as early as May 1, 2017, but no later than September 30, 2017. The CDE will approve or deny applications submitted pursuant to this section, but will not consider applications received after September 30, 2017, of the current calendar year for additional costs incurred during the 2016-17 fiscal year.
The CDE will distribute reimbursement funds for each approved application within 90 days of receipt of the application if it was filed between May 1 and July 20 inclusive of the current calendar year. Applications received after July 20 are not subject to the 90 day requirement for the distribution of funds. If requests for reimbursement pursuant to this section exceed available funds, CDE will assign priority for reimbursement according to the order in which it receives the applications. Funds received by an APP pursuant to this section that are not substantiated by the program's annual audit must be returned to CDE and are not subject to the appeal process. Beginning May 1, 2017, the Contingency Fund Application, form - CDNFS 1571 will be available on the Internet HERE.
Please note, this form cannot be submitted electronically, and must be received by the CDE no later than September 30, 2017. If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact Corey Kai at 916-324-6611, or by e-mail at Ckai@cde.ca.gov.
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Informational Conference Call on the
Governor's May Revise: What's In and
What's Out?
May 17, 2017
9:00am-10:00am
Hear from the experts on the Governor's May Revise without leaving your office!
- Virginia Early, Legislative Analyst's Office
- Ted Lempert, Children Now
There will be no charge for CAPPA members. Non-members will be charged a fee of $99.
Call-in information will be sent the day before the call to the email address provided.
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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.
May 2017 Webinar:
Getting to the Heart of Good Leadership
Strong leadership in the child care field is strongly linked to quality outcomes and ultimately, better programs for serving children and families. This workshop will get to the core qualities of what makes for a good leader and help you identify concrete ways in which you can strengthen your leadership skills.
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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