 |
|
|
Introducing CAPPA's 2017-18 Board of Directors
|
|
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
|
|
|
EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
|
|
May 15, 2017
May 9, 2017
May 8, 2017
May 5, 2017
Transfer of Families into a California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Stage 2 Program
May 5, 2017
The following documents have been revised and are available
HERE.
1) April 26, 2017 PSE Presentation Webinar Slides
2) EESD Form 4001 Instructions for Program Review Instrument
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
|
|
|
|
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.
|
Getting to the Heart of Good Leadership
|
 AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support CAPPA every time you shop. When you shop at
smile.amazon.com
,
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!
_________________
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
|
|
|
Featured Agency of the Month
|
|
|
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!)
|
|
|
|
|
If you have news to share or an event you want added to CAPPA's website Calendar,
|
|
|
Child Care & Early Learning Master Calendar
|
|
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!
|
|
|
Support Our Field & Communications
Become a CAPPA Monday Morning Update Partner!
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
California
This week, California Assembly and Senate floor sessions will convene on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Click here to read all related budget information including hearing information, budget bill language, trailer bill language, and other related information. CAPPA is updating this page on a regular basis.
Overall,
both
the Assembly and Senate budget committees that take action on child care and early education not only recognized the governor honoring his promise in the May Revise, but also went above and beyond to provide funding to update eligibility to 70 percent of most recent SMI with an incoming out at 85 percent, as well as funding for 12-month eligibility.
However, the Assembly went further and allocated funding for an additional $30 million General Fund to support additional APP (1,590) and general child care (1,120) slots (2,710 total) and language to be developed that would have full-day slots that are allocated to LEAs to also be available to non LEAs.
For more detailed child care and early education budget details, please see the following:
Click
HERE
to access the ASM May 23rd agenda.
Click
HERE
to view actions taken.
Click
HERE
to access the SEN May 23 agenda.
Click
HERE
to view actions taken.
The Budget Conference Committee is scheduled to meet every day UPON CALL OF THE CHAIR through Sunday. Once the Budget Conference Committee completes it work, that of comparing the Assembly, Senate and other information then making a recommendation to put forward one budget plan. It is that budget plan that will become AB 97, the Budget Act of 2017. Trailer bills also will be forthcoming.
Once the Budget Conference Committee completes its work, then their work goes into a budget report to both the full Assembly and full Senate. It may simultaneously go to the BIG FIVE (Governor, Speaker of Assembly, Senate President pro Tempore, and Minority Leaders of both houses) where they too can meet and compromise to get the simple majority vote in each house.
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:
Last week, the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees took up the suspense file items. The following bills of significance to the field which passed out of appropriations are highlighted as follows:
- AB 60 (Santiago and Gonzalez): Subsidized child care and development services: eligibility periods. - This bill establishes 12-month eligibility for families, establishes income eligibility for services at or below 70% of the SMI based on the most recent data and establishes ongoing income eligibility at or below 85% of the most recent SMI data.
-
Child care and development services: alternative payment programs: military families. - This CAPPA sponsored bill requires that an alternative payment program to have 36 months to expend allocated funds. It also, for the purposes of determining eligibility, excludes allowances for military housing as countable income.
-
AB 1164 (Thurmond):
Foster care placement: funding. This bill would establish the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children for
an eligible child who is placed with an approved resource family, a licensed or certified foster family, or an approved relative or nonrelative extended family member, or who is the child of a young parent involved in the child welfare system.
The following summarizes some other bills of interest which moved on out of appropriations:
(Members: to see a complete list of bills of interest,
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.
To watch live coverage of the Assembly and Senate click here.
The legislature has been working on framing the legislative and budgetary policies for the upcoming 2017-18 session. Click here to see the upcoming calendar of legislative deadlines. Please feel free to forward to us any trainings, conferences or meetings that you think would be beneficial to our field.
How President Trump's Proposed Budget is Bad for Californians and for the Economy
by Budget Center
President Trump this morning released his
full budget proposal for the upcoming federal fiscal year, calling for deep cuts across a range of critical public services and systems as well as a set of tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit corporations and the wealthy.
A new
post from the California Budget & Policy Center offers some initial impressions on the President's proposed budget and highlights some of the most important risks it could pose to California, other states, and our nation as a whole.
Click
HERE to read the entire post.
Enrollment in Subsidized Child Care and Development Programs Varies by Race and ethnicity
By Kristin Schumacher
Following on an earlier analysis showing the tremendous
unmet need in California for subsidized child care and preschool, a
new report looks at access to care by race and ethnicity. This analysis shows that while the share of eligible children enrolled in a subsidized program is low across all racial and ethnic groups, this level of access varies widely. This analysis highlights, for instance, the large number of Latino children - nearly 1 million - who are eligible for subsidized care but not enrolled in a state program. The report also offers a set of policy recommendations for improving eligible families' access to child care and development programs and helping address existing disparities by race and ethnicity.
Click
HERE to read the entire report.
Trump Administration Would Cut Child Care and Early Education Investments
by Hannah Matthews
The proposal would cut billions of dollars from health, human services, nutrition, and education-redirecting those funds as tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy. While giving lip service to the importance of child care and early learning programs, the president's budget would reduce early childhood funding. This would undermine efforts to raise quality of care and make programs more effective, as well as rip away services from hundreds of thousands of children. These cuts would be compounded by disinvestment in SNAP, Medicaid, and other benefits that promote healthy development and well being for millions of young children and families.
The president's budget would fund the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) at the FY 2016 level, eliminating the $95 million increase gained in the FY 2017 omnibus spending bill. CCDBG is the primary source of funding to help low-income families meet high child care costs and improve quality of care for all children.
Click
HERE to read the entire report.
CBO: Million Would Pay More for Less Under House GOP Health Bill
Along with increasing the number of uninsured by 23 million, the House Republican bill to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would
force millions of people
in the individual market to pay more for health insurance and health care, the
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
found yesterday.
The CBO finds that breaking the ACA's fundamental structure would result in people paying much higher premiums for skimpier coverage that requires them to pay much more in deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs.
The CBO report shows that in all states, millions of people would pay more under the House GOP health bill due to its less generous tax credits and elimination of cost-sharing subsidies.
Click
HERE to read the entire report.
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.
|
The Governor's May Revise reflects 75th percentile
rates using the 2016 Market Rate Survey.
Click here to see that survey and the rates as they relate to your county.
Please note that Trustline rates are not yet included.
The May Revise proposes using the 2016 rates beginning January 1, 2018.
Included in the May Revise, is another hold harmless provision for 12 months, which is proposed to start from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019.
*MEMBERS: Please email
CAPPA for county specific sheets
|
|
The CDE, EESD and California Department of Social Services (CDSS), Child Care Programs Bureau
will hold a joint public conference call to present and review the following recently released communications:
- The CDE Management Bulletin 17-06 Transfer of Families into a California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Stage 2 Program
- The CDSS
Information on the joint public conference call is as follows:
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Time: 9:00am - 10:30am
Call-in Number: (712)432-0075
Participant Access Code: 575469#
|
Regional Technical Assistance Trainings
Summer 2017
Hosted by CAPPA Member Agencies
10:00am-2:00pm
June 30th- Los Angeles
July 12th- Hanford
July 14th- San Mateo
July 21st- Chico
CAPPA member agencies, with the support of CAPPA & Children's Foundation, are putting together a series of Technical Assistance trainings that will be coming to a region near you!
This series will be delivered in a format that is very participatory. We encourage all participating to come with questions, as well as samples for each of the topics that will be discussed.
Planned topics include:
|
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
|
|
|
ALL NEW! 2017 Early Learning & Child Care Webinar Series
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
