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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.
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July 2017 Featured Agency of the Month!
North Coast Opportunities - Rural Communities Child Care (RCCC)
What we do:
RCCC provides child care subsidies for low-income families, child care referrals to licensed facilities and continuing education for childcare providers. We serve children, families and child care providers through education, resources, and the promotion of quality child care services. RCCC also provides advocacy for children, parents and child care providers.
How we serve: RCCC provides a variety of direct services including individual conferences with families, determination of family eligibility, family needs assessment, assisting families with accessing services, referring families to other community resources, educating parents, maintaining eligibility lists, doing business with child care providers as independent contractors and providing technical assistance to parents and child care providers. RCCC staff takes pride in our work and our commitment to and responsibility for the children and families we serve. We strive to maintain a non-judgmental attitude in supportive relationships with each other and clients. We believe in fostering an atmosphere of mutual respect, open communication and cooperation. We recognize initiative, self-discipline and positive attitudes as leadership qualities and strive to foster these qualities among all staff.
RCCC is made up of several programs to provide child care for children and foster self-sufficiency in parents.
R&R - The Resource and Referral program provides free child care referrals to child care facilities and community resources and events, free information on starting and managing a family child care home business or child care center, and a resource library for child care providers and parents. Specialized workshops are offered for child care providers on child related topics. The program also provides a community resource directory.
APP/CalWORKS - The Alternative Payment Programs subsidizes childcare payments for eligible families who are working, in school or training or participating in a welfare-to-work activity.
CACFP - Child & Adult Care Food Program reimburses family child care providers who provide nutritious meals and snacks to children. Ongoing nutrition training is provided.
FCCHEN - The Family Child Care Home Education Network provides subsidized childcare services for eligible families who are working, in school or training, or looking for work. A select group of family childcare homes provide specialized early child development services and developmental assessments.
Funding we bring -
In 2016/17, our budget is approximately 5.7 million dollars. Since the program's inception in 1975, we've brought more than 235 million dollars to our communities.
Click HERE to learn more about North Coast Opportunities!
* Big thanks to Teri Sedrick, Program Director 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:
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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EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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and additional information regarding the implementation of early care and education budget provisions.
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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Helping Angry and Aggressive Children
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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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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,
Congratulations to Child Development Associates on being selected by ASM Shirley Weber as Non-profit of the Year for the 79th Senate District!!
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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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Message from CAPPA's Newly Elected Board President
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Dear CAPPA members,
It is an absolute honor to be elected as President of the 2017-18 CAPPA Board. I want to thank the outgoing President, Martin Castro, for his leadership over the last year. I am currently the President and CEO of Child Development Associates in San Diego and serve on the CAPPA Public Policy and Branding Committees. I see great value in CAPPA as an association that unites agency voices and promotes member collaboration while being a strong and respected champion for children and families.
I am excited about the upcoming year and what we can accomplish together. There are three areas that I would like to ask the board and membership for their support. First, is enhancing the benefits of CAPPA membership. With many positive changes in the State Budget to implement, the CAPPA Monday Morning Update Newsletter will remain an important communication channel where members can share useful information with the field. CAPPA will continue to be a conduit for shared best practices from the field through webinars and training opportunities across the state. CAPPA will also remain a strong voice for the field by representing member agencies in Sacramento and through its respected public policy advocacy.
Second, I believe we should strive to increase communication with the California Department of Education (CDE). With the extensive changes in the state budget, it is time to strengthen our partnership with CDE by opening more opportunities for dialogue. Members of the CAPPA board will meet with CDE leaders on a regular basis and support CDE by scheduling and hosting coordinated training opportunities.
Lastly, I am optimistic about the Alternative Payment Program (APP) branding project and the work we will continue to do this year. The goal is to provide communication tools that agencies can use to tell the APP story. Examples include 1, 2, 5, and 10 minute messages, imagery, social media, infographics, and video to help agencies better explain the invaluable work and positive impact APPs have on children, families, and the community.
There are many other great things happening at CAPPA, but if I listed them all here it would fill this newsletter! I am grateful for the opportunity to serve the members of CAPPA and welcome your suggestions at any time. Feel free to contact me at
rrichardson@cdasandiego.com.
Sincerely,
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California
This week, California Assembly and Senate floor sessions will convene on Monday and Thursday and will be observing the 4th of July holiday. There are no legislative deadlines this week. July 14th is the deadline for policy committees to hear and report fiscal bills to fiscal Committees.
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. CLick HERE to read the press release.
As we move towards the July 14th deadline for policy committees to hear and report bills to fiscal committees, this week and the next will be the last week for bills that need to be heard in appropriations to be heard. Check our website more detailed information.
Active bills of interest:
- 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.
New Early Education and Support Division Leader
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced on June 26, 2017, that he has appointed Sarah Neville-Morgan as Director of the California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education and Support Division (EESD) effective July 10, 2017.
Neville-Morgan will oversee a division that provides leadership and support to the early learning and care community, providers, and contractors statewide, ensuring high-quality early education programs for young children.
Neville-Morgan most recently served as Deputy Director of Program Management at First 5 California, and she worked as a CDE EESD Child Development Consultant from 2011 to 2013.
"I am pleased to have such an experienced and dynamic early education leader back on the CDE team," Torlakson said. "Sarah brings tremendous knowledge, dedication, and teamwork that will help provide top-quality services for our earliest learners."
As State Superintendent, Torlakson has placed a priority on early childhood education and serving the whole child so that young students arrive at kindergarten prepared to learn and able to succeed in classroom settings.
"As CDE realigns its organization to meet the needs of students, teachers, and educators, Sarah will be able to foster deeper collaboration with our partners in early education," Torlakson said.
At First 5 California, Neville-Morgan managed a team of professional staff and managers focused on closing the achievement gap and enhancing early brain development. She also worked as the Deputy Executive Director of the California Early Learning Council, and as an Academic Child Development Specialist at the University of California - Davis (UC Davis) Center for Child and Family Studies.
Neville-Morgan earned a B.A. in Psychology at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana and a M.S. in Child Development at UC Davis.
Federal
CBPP Analysis Round on the Senate GOP Health Bill
June 29, 2017
The
Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would leave 22 million more people uninsured while raising premiums and out-of-pocket costs for tens of millions more - and giving a tax windfall to those at the top.
We have compiled our
key analyses and charts
that illustrate how the Senate bill would hurt coverage and affordability for millions of Americans.
The Wrong Path for Children: Anti-Immigrant Proposals at the Federal and State Level
By: Wendy Cervantes - June 29, 2017
June is Immigrant Heritage Month, a time when we celebrate our country's rich immigration history, including the many contributions of immigrants and their children. A proud daughter of Mexican immigrants, I've dedicated my career to fighting for justice alongside my community and have previously shared my own family's story to commemorate the significance of this month. Yet, this year has been exhausting and heartbreaking, and it has taken me more time to think about what I want to say. To continue to believe in a bright future for our country-which depends entirely on the ability of our increasingly diverse child population to succeed-can be difficult when millions of children and their families face a continued onslaught of threats ranging from increased xenophobia in their classrooms to budget and policy proposals that endanger their safety and wellbeing.
Of Interest
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
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
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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 first week of August.
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.
July 2017 Webinar:
Helping Angry and Aggressive Children
Often times, children express their anger through behaviors that are perceived as aggressive. As child care
providers, we may often feel helpless or unsure in knowing how to respond to these behaviors. This
webinar will help you deconstruct these behaviors and understand the root cause and reason for the
behavior. By understanding the specific emotions and causes of aggressive behavior in children,
we can then more effectively assist the child in managing and meeting needs in a positive, healthy
manner.
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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