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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
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June 2017 Featured Agency of the Month!
Davis Street Family Resource Center
For more than 46 years Davis Street has provided critically needed services to low-income, uninsured, and working poor families. Beginning as a ministry of the First Christian Church, Davis Street has evolved into the only multi-service agency in San Leandro and the Eden Area providing a comprehensive range of services for families and seniors.
The Alternative Payment Program provides care to 542 Children daily through its Stage 2, Stage 3 and CAPP Contracts. In addition to APP, Davis Street operates 5 licensed childcare centers throughout San Leandro, caring for more than 300 children daily in both our Private Pay and subsidized CSPP/CCTR child care programs. We will soon be opening a 6th center housed at the Marea Alta Housing development - a 115 unit new construction affordable housing complex built near San Leandro BART with an anticipated enrollment of 64 preschool child care slots.
As a comprehensive safety net provider Davis Street has focused on expanding its range of services, most recently completing construction a Primary Care Medical Clinic. The clinic is a state of the art, licensed, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providing integrated Medical, Dental and Behavioral Health Services to our community. Last year the Primary Care Clinic had 6,435 patient encounters. The clinic also provides immunizations and dental screenings for low-income children entering school.
At the core of our organization is the Basic Needs program. Basic Needs provides safety net services to nearly 15,000 low-income individuals each year and is often the point of entry for many of the families we serve. Services include: Food pantry providing more than 32,000 bags of groceries each year; clothing program; housing and utility assistance, Covered California insurance enrollments.
Davis Street also has a number of annual events and programs to help meet the needs of the community and support the families it serves:
* 3rd Annual Health Fair, August 12
- will provide free health screenings, immunizations and dental screenings for children entering school. The community event also features more than 30 community resource booths and linkages to other organizations and resources throughout the area.
* Back to School Program
- providing low-income children with a new backpack and school supplies.
* Holiday Food Basket and Toy Program
each year provides more than 1,000 families and seniors with a complete holiday meal and new unwrapped age appropriate toys for children. The food basket includes a fresh turkey, stuffing and vegetables for a complete holiday meal.
Click HERE to be directed to Davis Street's website.
*Thank you to Daniel Johnson 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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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
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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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Hands-on Science on a Shoe-String Budget
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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
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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,
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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.
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.
The Budget Conference Committee is scheduled to meet at 1:30 today. The Committee is in the last stages of review of all budget related issues and will now be putting together a single version of the budget bill that can go to both houses.
The Senate and Assembly each vote on this final version before it is sent to the Governor. The houses also vote on trailer bills if statutory changes are necessary to implement provisions of the budget bill. 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.
For our field, the following issues are open pending recommendations:
- Child care and preschool slots; licensing changes held open
- Child care foster care bridge proposal
CAPPA will be posting updates. Click here to see breaking budget related information.
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:
The deadline for bills to pass out of their houses of origin was June 2. Last week, the Senate and Assembly held floor session from Tuesday - Thursday and voted on hundreds of bills, moving many on from their houses of origin on to the next house.
Among the numerous bills that were voted on and passed, the following are bills of interest:
- AB 60 (Santiago and Gonzalez) Subsidized child care and development services: eligibility periods.
- AB 227 (Mayes) CalWORKs: education incentives.
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AB 273 (Aguiar- Curry) Child care services: eligibility.
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AB 603 (Quirk- Silva) Child care: alternative payment programs: child care providers.
- AB 1106 (Weber) Child care and development services: alternative payment programs: military families.
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.
Contrary to President's Promises, Budget Would Make it Harder for Many
by Sharon Parrottt
President Trump's 2018 budget includes $2.5 trillion in cuts over the next decade to low-income programs that help struggling families afford the basics.
The Administration has justified many of these proposed cuts by suggesting that its policies will result in people finding work, ignoring that many program participants either already work or are unable to do so.
Instead, the budget features proposals that will make it significantly harder for people left behind by the economy to move up the economic ladder, including cuts in job training, proposals that would make college more expensive, and cuts in programs that support child care.
These cuts would make it harder for people to succeed in the labor market - and would hurt the millions of people already working - making it clear that the budget's real goal is to make large cuts in these areas, not to help those the economy has left behind get ahead.
Click HERE to read the 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.
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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
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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:
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Joint Annual Conference 2017
October 18-20, 2017
DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento
Exhibitor and Sponsor Information is now available!
Registration:
Registration and workshop information will be available in July.
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.
June 2017 Webinar:
Hands-on Science on a Shoe-String Budget
Learning science and engineering practices in the early years can foster children's curiosity and enjoyment in exploring the world around them and lay the foundation for a progression of science learning in K-12 settings and throughout their entire lives. With a little time and effort, you can start the school year with adequately stocked science supply shelves. Teaching science can be costly but it doesn't have to be. This webinar will provide valuable suggestions and creative ways to teach science on a budget.
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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