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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:
Rick Richardson
Child Development Associates
Karen Marlatt
Valley Oak Children's Services
Beth Chiaro
Child Care Resource Center
LaVera Smith
Supportive Services Fresno
Martin Castro
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation
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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September 13, 2017
September 13, 2017
Topical Input Sessions related to development of the Quality Improvement Expenditure Plan for Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) expenditures and other Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) quality improvement (QI) expenditures will take place on October 5, 2017.
August 11, 2017
Subject: Revised Family Fee Schedule
July 26, 2017
July 21, 2017
July 12, 2017
July 12, 2017
Manual Letter EAS 17-05 includes revisions to the CalWORKs regulations as a result of the repeal of the Maximum Family Grant (MFG) rule. These amended regulations are effective June 19, 2017.
Manual Letter EAS 17-06 includes revisions to the CalWORKs regulations regarding eligibility for pregnant women. These amended regulations are effective July 1, 2017.
July 6, 2017
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ubject: State Median Income(Initial Certification)
Subject: Graduated Phase-Out (Recertification)
Subject: Updated Income Rankings
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September 2017 Featured Agency of the Month!
Central Valley Children's Services Network
Central Valley Children's Services Network (CSN)
is the premier source for child care resource and referral services in Fresno County. For over 40 years, CSN has proudly provided early support services for parents; child care providers and children that help meet our mission of "Improving the quality of care for all children of the Central Valley." At CSN we understand that quality child care goes beyond meeting the licensing requirements; it enhances the social, emotional, intellectual, physical, linguistics, and creative development of a child. CSN considers children to be our most precious resource; deserving of the most optimal care possible. We want parents with child care needs to be informed about what quality child care is and the programs that we provide aim to help!
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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!
Children's Council of San Francisco
Solano Family & Children's Services
Child Action, Inc. Sacramento
YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, North Valley Family YMCA
YMCA Metropolitan Los Angeles
Child Development Inc. is Hiring! See the Recruitment Flyer
Here.
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Running Dynamic Parent Meetings - strategies for increasing parent participation
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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 you want added to CAPPA's website Calendar, email us!
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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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New! Meet the Board Member
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With the California Legislature now on recess, we are pleased to take advantage of this time to introduce a new segment in our Monday Morning Update for the next 16 weeks: "Meet the Board Member". Here at CAPPA, our biggest strength lies in our Board and Membership, and we look forward to sharing more about each of our individual board members for the next coming weeks.
This week: Meet Abby Shull
After earning degrees in Writing and Gender Studies at UC San Diego in 2002, my first Big Girl Job was as an AP Case Manager at YMCA Childcare Resource Service. I held roles in Quality Assurance and supervision, before my heart led me to San Francisco in 2005. (And as the song goes, I left it there, at least part of it). There I worked for Early Childhood Services with YMCA of the East Bay, PACEAPP, and finally 5 years at Children's Council of San Francisco as an AP Manager and later Interim Director. I had a brief adventurous stint milking cows on a farm in Petaluma, and training dogs at the Oakland SPCA. A 5th generation San Diegan, home called me back, as did my important work in subsidy programs. I returned to the YMCA in San Diego in 2014 overseeing the Stage 1 program, and finally my current role as Alternative Payment Department Head. When I'm not changing the world with my Y team, I'm usually found in a craft store, a tent, or on an old fishing boat with my parents, my 4 sisters, and their brilliant offspring.
My passion for early education and child care is intertwined with my love for the YMCA. Childcare Resource Service (which includes AP and R&R) is part of a region within the Y known as Community Support Services, which encompasses child care and after school, kinship support, counseling, youth transitional housing, opportunities for children and youth with special needs. Our new region has opportunities to connect parents and children to more integrated services in the YMCA. My favorite collaboration has been sending AP children to YMCA Summer Camp at a steep discount, and hearing stories of kids riding horses, hiking, and camping under the stars for the first time in their lives.
The CAPPA board has provided me way to leverage my knowledge from 15 years in the field and my commitment to social justice. I can be at the helm with my colleagues to affect crucial legislation in a daunting political climate, and work alongside our funders to create regulations that remove barriers to stability for families in California.
I am hopeful for the next chapter, as we see the advent of 12 month eligibility. Cumbersome requirements and frequent interruptions to services will give way, and space has been created for us to redefine how we show up for families and providers, in more meaningful, holistic ways. It's an exciting time, and I am thrilled to experience it with my friends in the field.
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California
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:
This past Friday, September 15, the California Senate and Assembly adjourned for the year and will return on January 3, 2018.
The following bills of interest are all currently enrolled and will be presented to the governor in the coming days.
- 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 1106 (Weber) - This bill will allow allocated monies to support working families with child care, to be distributed over a longer period of time. (CAPPA sponsored bill)
- AB 603 (Quirk- Silva)
- The bill would require on or before July 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 and/or electronic notice to a child care provider of any changes to reimbursement.
Now that bills are being presented to the Governor, there are opportunities for continued advocacy!
On this page, you can email the governor regarding specific pieces of legislation and more. To support or oppose specific legislation, on the
contact page, where it says "Please choose your subject", select the
specific piece of legislation that you are writing in regards to by scrolling down to the appropriate bill.
Once you have completed the fields and selected the specific piece of legislation click "continue", at which point you can indicate your position: "pro" or "con" and write a message of up to 6000 characters. If you would like sample support templates, email
CAPPA
and we are happy to be of assistance.
Update on
AB 1250 (Jones-Sawyer)
- CAPPA has STRONGLY OPPOSED this bill because it may eliminate the funding of non-profits to provide health and human services based on funding through counties. It also fundamentally changes the relationship between counties and the manner in which they are able to contract out services such as child care. This bill is being held in the Senate Rules Committee.
Those of you that communicated your opposition to
AB 1250
are to be commended. Since Wednesday, individual legislators that were inundated with concerns from their respective districts and special constituencies such as child care, refused to support moving this legislation forward this year without the opportunity for a public hearing. What that means is that more than likely this bill will be moved in 2018.
Below are lin
ks to other organizations that are tracking legislation that may be of interest to you.
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.
Click here to see the upcoming calendar of legislative deadlines and other field meetings. CAPPA is offering to host a field calendar to help us all better coordinate our conferences, trainings, and meetings. If you would like to add to the calendar, email CAPPA.
New Census Data on the Official Poverty rate in California- California's Official Poverty Rate declined in 2016, but Federal Proposals Could Increase Economic Hardship
The US Census Bureau today publicly released American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2016, which include new figures on the official poverty measure and other key social and economic indicators. The California Budget & Policy Center has published an
analysis of the new poverty figures, which show that California's 2016 overall poverty rate (14.3 percent) and child poverty rate (19.9 percent) are both down from 2015 (15.3 percent and 21.2 percent, respectively), yet still above their pre-recession levels. In addition, this analysis discusses how current federal proposals to significantly cut public supports that help individuals and families make ends meet would increase economic hardship.
The Budget Center's analysis also looks at how the official poverty rate varies significantly for different parts of the state. At the county level, the overall poverty measure ranges from 6.5 percent up to 25.6 percent, while the child poverty rate ranges from 5.2 percent up to 37.9 percent.
Federal
2 Million Parents Forced to Make Career Sacrifices Due to Problems with Child Care
by: Leila Schochet and Rasheed Malik
How Tax Reform Can Raise Working-Class Incomes
President Trump has consistently promised to help working class families, yet his tax plan released in April would
betray those promises.
For a
fraction of the cost of the Trump tax plan, tax reform could deliver
meaningful help to the working class by closing gaps in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC)- or even more ambitious expansions.
For example,
a major EITC expansion proposed today by Representative Ro Khanna and Senator Sherrod Brown would fix a flaw in the EITC that gives workers not raising children a smaller credit and then roughly double the maximum EITC amount for all groups.
That would be a well-targeted way to help working-class households that have been hard hit by the economic trends of recent decades.
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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Child care plays an important role in the U.S. economy, helping to generate 15 million jobs and more than $500 billion in income annually. Yet, on average, millions of working families pay more for child care than they do for mortgage or rent, transportation, or even food every month.
That's why it's critical to fund child care programs, especially for low-income families, at a level where they can afford to continue working and also support their family.
Support child care for all families!
- More than double the number of children eligible for assistance under the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), and ensure these children gain access to high-quality early learning programs.
- Help states create universal preschool programs for three and four year olds during the school day, and provide a higher matching rate for infants and toddlers.
- Support the child care workforce through increased training and compensation by ensuring they are paid a living wage.
TAKE ACTION!!! Click here!!!
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Members only: Insights and Advocacy
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CAPPA Insights and Advocacy
Members Only Conference Call
September 29, 2017
10:00am - 10:45am
Topic: Federal Update
Presented by: Marguerite Ries, Federal Policy Liaison, California Department of Education
Join us for an ALL NEW Insights and Advocacy Conference Call.
For this call, Marguerite Ries, Federal Policy Liaison from the California Department of Education's Government Affairs Division will be providing us with relevant Federal Policy and Budget updates in relation to child care and early education.
Topics will vary from month to month and will include: relevant legislation, budget updates, caucus priorities, reports from policy experts and more. The purpose of these calls is to share with our members, information that is relevant to our field.
These calls will be available to CAPPA members only.
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
NEW!
We Want Your Pictures!!
CAPPA and The Network are putting together a collection of member photos for a conference slide show. We would like 3-5 photos from every agency. They can be from years past, or you can start taking pictures today! Email photos to
Danielle
by Friday, October 6th. Pictures are all compiled into a slide show that is premiered during a time at the conference where we all come together and celebrate the work we do.
NEW! CDE Meet and Greets during the Conference
During the Joint Annual Conference, CDE staff from the following departments will be on-site for meet and greets with Conference attendees: Child Development Management Information System (CDMIS), Field Services, Policy Office and Parents Appeals. If you are interested in meeting one on one with any of these departments to get questions answered, get clarification on something, etc., please complete the
Meet & Greet Sign-up Form and send it to
Danielle.
Registration is Now Open!
For more conference information and to see the Preliminary Workshop Program,
Click Here.
Conference Sponsorship or exhibitor opportunities are still available!
Hotel Reservations:
Our room block at the DoubleTree is sold out. If you are still in need of a room, please email
Danielle.
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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.
September 2017 Webinar:
Running Dynamic Parent Meetings - strategies for increasing parent participation
Developing a partnership and fostering collaboration between parents and child care providers can lead to a more consistent home/care environment for a child. By approaching parent meetings in a systematic manner, a caregiver can work to facilitate an effective flow of communication between parent and caregiver. Increasing parent participation in the process can lead to better outcomes for children while ensuring that a parent's voice is heard and empowered throughout the process.
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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