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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:
President
Rick Richardson
Child Development Associates
Vice President
Karen Marlatt
Valley Oak Children's Services
Treasurer
Beth Chiaro
Child Care Resource Center
Secretary
LaVera Smith
Supportive Services Fresno
Past President
Martin Castro
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation
Public Policy Co-Chair
Jeffrey Moreira
Crystal Stairs, Inc.
Public Policy Co-Chair
Phillip Warner
Children's Council San Francisco
Trudy Adair- Verbais
Santa Barbara County Education Office
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
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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.
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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
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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!
YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, North Valley Family YMCA
YMCA Metropolitan Los Angeles
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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It is because of their generous donors that they are able to offer this service. Signing up to become a TechSoup member is the first step toward getting product donations. Once you sign up, you can see the donation programs your organization is eligible for.
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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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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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California
This week, California Assembly and Senate floor sessions will convene on Monday and Thursday. There are no legislative deadlines this week.
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.
Last week, there were some postings that the governor had signed the budget. THE GOVERNOR DID NOT SIGN THE BUDGET.
Rather, the governor signed on June 21st, AB 98, also known as a supplemental appropriation bill or deficiency bill. The funding in this bill is to address unexpected General Funds costs during the 2016-17 fiscal year.
As far as the budget bill and trailer bills pending before the governor, it is anticipated that they will be acted on early this week.
Included in the budget and trailer bills:
- Increase Spending by $271 Million to Implement Multiyear Budget Agreement and Make Technical Adjustments
- $159 million to annualize the cost of rate and slot increases initiated in the 2016-17 budget.
- $135 million to increase rates for child care and preschool providers.
- $8 million to add 2,959 full-day State Preschool slots at local education agencies (LEAs) to begin April 1, 2018.
- $30 million reduction due to various other changes.
- Make Changes to Eligibility Criteria and Family Income Reporting Requirements.
- $20 million to (1) use the most recent State Median Income (SMI) when determining eligibility for child care and preschool and (2) set different entry and exit thresholds. Specifically, increase the entry threshold to 70 percent and the exit threshold to 85 percent of SMI.
- Allow families to report changes to income and work status less frequently.
- Allow Part-Day State Preschool Programs to Serve Children With Special Needs Over Income Threshold
Adopted
foster care child care bridge programs with a start date of January 1, 2018 and $15.5 M General Fund in 17-18; $31 M General Fund ongoing along with our trailer bill language.
CAPPA
will be posting updates.
Click here
to see breaking budget related information.
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:
With the deadline for bills to pass out of their houses of origin having passed, both houses have commenced the next round of policy hearings as bills that have passed out of their houses of origin move on in the legislative process.
Active bills of interest:
- AB 60 (Santiago & Gonzalez) - 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 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 the California Department of Education to provide to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature cost estimates and system analysis for alternative payment programs to develop an electronic timesheet process for the monthly attendance record or invoices, as provided. The bill would require on or before January 1, 2019, an alternative payment program to establish a program of electronic banking for payments made to licensed or license-exempt child care providers that have a contract with that alternative payment program, as provided. This bill would require APPs provide written notice to a child care provider of any changes to service.
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AB 1106 (Weber)
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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. (CAPPA sponsored bill)
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.
A Message from Western Center on Law and Poverty:
Senate HealthCare Bill a Time Bomb for Medicaid
The
Senate's version of the American Health Care Act released today plants a time bomb in the nation's Medicaid program. Current ACA laws expanded coverage and improved access for millions of Americans. But the Republican AHCA bill would guarantee that millions more Americans would lose coverage and access to care, with Medicaid enrollees suffering the most. The Senate version is by no means a "better" version of the House bill that the Senate claimed it would be. The Senate bill cuts deeper to the core of Medicaid by imposing more severe caps on each state's Medicaid program.
Today (6/15/17), the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and the National Women's Law Center released an updated version of Implementing the Child Care and Development Block Grant Reauthorization: A Guide for States published originally in April 2015, following the 2014 bipartisan reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). The updated guide includes an outline and discussion of provisions in the final rule implementing CCDBG issued in September 2016 by the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This guidebook summarizes and analyzes key sections of the law and offers recommendations-and cautions-for policymakers and advocates as they consider how to implement those sections.
The updated guide provides greater understanding of the law and regulations and makes the case for necessary legislative and administrative policy changes at the state level and necessary funding increases at the federal and state level.
Click
HERE to read the full guide.
Learning Mindset and Skills: An Opportunity with the Every Student Succeeds Act
by Ulrich Boser and Perpetual Baffour
ESSA gives state and district leaders a unique chance to advance learning mindsets and skills through their reform efforts. A growing body of research shows that learning mindsets are malleable, not fixed. However, learning mindsets significantly depend on the conditions within a student's learning environment and the messages students receive about their learning ability. When educators nurture positive learning mindsets among their students, students are far better able to view new challenges as a natural part of the learning process. These positive mindsets, in turn, encourage them to develop better habits and skills that ultimately boost their classroom performance.
Read MORE here.
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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A Message from Parent Voices for Alternative Payment contractors:
Increase of the SMI
We are happy to report that the 2017-18 State Budget will include a defrosting of the long outdated State Median Income (SMI), among many other things. Starting July 1, 2017, families' initial income eligibility will be based on 70% of the
most recent SMI and ongoing income eligibility will be determined based on 85% of the
most recent SMI.
We would like to ask Alternative Payment Program Contractors to encourage any families that are deemed "over-income" prior to July 1 to
appeal this termination, so that we do not lose families still in need of services during the interim. Additionally, it would be helpful, where possible, if recertifications and/or scheduled income calculations can be completed after July 1st
. In summary, we ask that where there is additional flexibility for that flexibilty to be utilized, e.g. taking the
maximum allowed time to issue the termination notice, and if appealed, to schedule the hearing.
or the Child Care Law Center at info@childcarelaw.org.
We thank the field in advance for this collaborative effort and all the support and advocacy.
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FYI - Many have inquired as to when the new family fee schedule will be released. It will be released to the field when the governor signs the budget and trailer bills.
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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Joint Annual Conference 2017
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Joint Annual Conference 2017
October 18-20, 2017
DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento
We are offering an Agency pre-payment option and it is being provided for agencies that would like to pay their 2017 Conference Registration Fees in advance. The preliminary program and final conference registration form, including the ability to list all conferees individually and to select workshops, will be released later in July.
We are hard at work creating a conference program that includes a variety of workshops to meet the needs of staff working with parents; staff providing training and technical assistance to child care providers; staff administering AP programs, program staff-supervisors; managers and directors.
Please click:
for general information about the conference and if your agency would like to pre-pay for the 2017 Joint Network/CAPPA Conference. Pre-payment for The Joint Annual Conference is Due by June 30th.
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 do have room blocks at overflow hotels that are very close to the DoubleTree. 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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