"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing"
Issue #51                                                           December 17 , 2018
California Alternative Payment Programs (APPs) - Connecting working families to child care, early education and supportive services
Alternative payment programs (APP) have been supporting working families in each county for nearly forty years.  These community based infrastructures are the go to supports when catastrophes happen such as the most recent Camp Fire.  Click here to read how Valley Oak Children's Services was ready on day one to support families that had lost their homes with access to resources such as housing, food, diapers, clothing and child care that may be located elsewhere.  Still today, it is the APP in Butte County serving as the strong continuity of support for families.

In 2018, CAPPA's monthly "Featured Agency" segment highlighted the amazing work being done by Alternative Payment Programs (APPs) child development contractors throughout the state of California. From border-to-border, APPs provide a variety of supports to working families and children with access to child care and early learning.  Additionally, many APPs may also supports other services that enhance parents achieving self-sufficiency, clothing, diapers, mental and behaviors health, and a host of services coordinated to help break the cycle of poverty.  We are pleased to continue this tradition into 2019 and bring focus to the untapped potential that is the APP community-based "lifting families and children up" system. 
Here are the CAPPA Member Agencies that were highlighted in 2018. Click on each of them to learn more! 

CAPPA will continue to recognize these amazing agencies in 2019. If you would like your agency to be featured in 2019,   please email us!
Quick Links
CAPPA's
2018-19 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 

Members-at-Large
Tina Barna
Choices for Children

Abby Shull
YMCA Childcare Resource Service 
 
Leslie Reece
Family Resource & Referral of San Joaquin County

Jeanne Fridolfs
Napa County Office of Education
Mike Michelon
Siskiyou Child Care Council

Marco Jimenez
Central Valley Children's Services Network

Jasmine Tijerino
San Mateo 4Cs

Michelle Graham
Children's Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County

Joie Owen
Glenn County Office of Education

Denyne Micheletti Colburn
CAPPA CEO
EESD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
Electronic banking option for provider reimbursement in Alternative Payment Programs (APPs)
Fiscal Year 2018-19 Request for Applications for General Child Care and Development Program Expansion Funds
October 31, 2018
MB 18-11:  Fiscal Year 2018-19, Request for Applications California State Preschool Program Expansion Funds
Contractors must mail or deliver one (1) application packet with original signature, and two (2) copies to the ELCD by Thursday, November 8, 2018.
September 24, 2018
The form for reporting General Child Care data (CDNFS 9500) has been posted to the Child Development and Nutrition
 

December 2018 Featured Agency of the Month 
Del Norte Child Care Council (DNCCC) is a nonprofit agency. This spring we will be celebrating 40 years of service in Del Norte County.
In our first year as a nonprofit  has changed over the last 40 years and so has the definition of DNCCC. Although our roots are grounded, we are flexible with the ever changing trends, needs and opportunities of our Community.

A Big thank you to Melodee Fugate, Executive Director, for the submission! 
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Marin Child Care Council
Children's Council San Francisco
Growing Place
Infant Child Enrichment Services

Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County, Inc.
International Institute Los Angeles


Pomona Unified School District- Child Development 
Children's Council San Francisco
Child Care Coordinating Council, Inc. of San Mateo County 

Child Development Inc. is Hiring! See the Recruitment Flyer  Here.
Announcements
CAPPA Member Benefits now available on the Members Only website:

NEW! 
Final CAPPA Branding materials added to the Member's only site. APP logo, one-pager and info graphic.  

Visit the CAPPA Member's Only website for more information on this and other benefits available to CAPPA Members.  

Mental Health in Early Childhood Education

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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.
If you have news to share or an event you want added to CAPPA's website calendar, email us!
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. 

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The Children's Foundation is a non-profit organization (501(c)3), Taxpayer Identification Number is 
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Request from Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom on California Priorities

We've dreamt big and planned hard, and now we're just weeks away from putting our vision into place. But the decision-making is far from over - we still have so much to finalize, and I don't want any of it done without your input. I want to hear directly from YOU about the way forward.
You're not just part of this state's future. You are California's future. So these next few weeks are when we really have to work together and not just talk, but do. I'm reaching out for your help here to make sure we're tackling the issues that affect every corner of California and we're improving government to work for everyone.
If you have a spare minute or two today, I'd really appreciate hearing straight from you. Can you let me know what's at the top of your list as we lay a foundation for our future?
Here's the link to a quick survey:
Thank you so much, as always,
Gavin

CAPPA Request:  Make your voice heard.  California's children from birth to five need access to child care and early education.  Working families need access to child care in our 24-hour/seven day per week economy.  Let our governor-elect know that access to child care and early learning opportunities starting at birth is not a nicety but a necessity.
What's Happening
California 
Capitol
Our newly elected assemblymembers and senators convened last week to kick off our 2019-20 legislative cycle.  In the time they were here, 210 legislative bills were introduced:  146 in the Assembly and 64 in the Senate.  

In review of what has been introduced and the noted priority of our new governor-elect and stated priorities of legislators, it is encouraged that we all begin to think of our issues not in a silo but as integral parts with other priorities, such as secured housing, safe water and food, transportation and health care all needed by our most fragile of families and children starting at birth.  For our families to achieve true self-sufficiency and children to be supported to be the healthiest they can be and attain higher educational benchmarks in the long term, all must be prioritized, funded and made accessible.

Click here to see all of the legislation identified of interest to our field.  Below are a couple highlights:

AB 2 (Santiago)   Community colleges: California College Promise.
AB 5 (Gonzalez) Worker status: independent contractors.
AB 6 (Reyes)   Early childhood education: Office of Early Childhood Education.
AB 15 (Nazarian)   Children's Savings Account Program.
AB 23 (Burke)   Workforce training programs.
AB 24 (Burke)   Targeted Child Tax Credit.
AB 123 (McCarty)   Early childhood education: state preschool program: transitional kindergarten: access: standards.
AB 124 (McCarty) Preschool Facilities Bond Act of 2020.
AB 125 (McCarty) Early childhood education: reimbursement rates.
SB 4 (McGuire)   Housing.
SB 26 (Caballero) Personal income taxes: working families child care tax credit.
SB 48 (Wiener)   Homelessness: right to shelter.

Update on Early Learning and Care 2018 Legislation
T his is to provide CDE, ELCD contractors with a summary, and the implementation plans for the Statues of 2018, which will impact the early learning and care field in the next few years:
Assembly Bill (AB) 2698
  • Beginning January 1, 2019, California Education Code (EC) 8265.5 will provide an adjustment factor for reimbursement to specified contractors that provide mental health consultation services for children.
  • A Management Bulletin (MB) will be released shortly with more clarification on what mental health consultation services are eligible and how to apply the adjustment factor.
AB 2626
  • Effective July 1, 2019, various sections of EC will be amended to:
    • increase initial income eligibility threshold to 85 percent of State Median Income (EC 8263.1);
    • expand age eligibility and remove restrictions for children that can be served in California State Preschool Programs (EC 8208);
    • increase the opportunities for the voluntary transfer of funds (EC 8275.5); and
    • include two paid professional development days (EC 8272.1).
  • These requirements will be described in more detail with the release of a MB in early 2019.
AB 2960
  • The addition of EC 8209.6 requires the CDE to develop and post an online portal for California's early learning and care services by June 30, 2022. In order to accomplish this, the CDE is required to convene a stakeholder workgroup to evaluate and provide recommendations for the online portal prior to June 30, 2019.
  • Prior to January 1, 2021, the workgroup will evaluate and provide their recommendations and submit a plan to the Legislature for implementing the recommendations of that workgroup.
AB 605
  • Amendments to Section 1596.951 of the Health and Safety Code, require the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to adopt regulations to create a single child care center license to serve infant, toddler, preschool, and school age children, on or before January 2021.
  • The CDSS will work in consultation with stakeholders to develop these regulations. The CDE will provide recommendations as part of the stakeholder workgroup.
  • By January 1, 2024, all day care centers shall be licensed as a child care center with the new single license. The CDE will release more information as the CDSS progresses in the writing of the regulations and the development of the new license.
AB 2370
  • Amendments to Section 1597.16 of the Health and Safety Code, require the CDSS to adopt regulations implementing the provisions of this statute no later than January 1, 2021. Amendments include the requirements for licensed centers to:
    • have their drinking water tested for lead contamination every five years and instate procedures in the event of lead contamination being discovered;
    • provide families with information on the risks of lead exposure, blood lead testing recommendations and requirements, and options for obtaining blood lead testing when enrolling or reenrolling a child; and
    • amend the preventative health practices course for licensed center directors and teachers to include training on prevention of lead exposure.
  • As the CDSS releases information regarding the new regulations, the CDE will release a MB providing guidance and direction to the CDE contractors.
If you have any questions regarding the information in this email, please contact your assigned Early Learning and Care Field Services Consultant. A list of consultants can be found on the CDE Consultant Regional Assignments web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/assignments.asp

Information from the Legislative Analyst's Office

The LAO has recently released a couple of reports of interest.

Child Care Attendance Records:  Comparing Paper and Electronic Processes - The Supplemental Report of the 2018-19 Budget Act required our office to identify the pros and cons of Alternative Payment agencies using a paper versus electronic process to collect monthly child care attendance records. This report fulfills this requirement.

Cal Facts 2018 - With a state as big, as populous, and as complex as California, quickly summarizing how its economy or state budget works is impossible. Instead, Cal Facts is a visual guide-using a variety of different charts-to the state's economy, revenues, and major program trends.

The Great Recession and California's Recovery.  Nearly ten years ago today, Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year projected a $42 billion deficit. This shortfall was stunning, but in fact, turned out to be optimistic. In the months that followed, the Governor released three more budget projections, each one addressing even larger shortfalls. California was called "ungovernable," "a wreck," and "a failed state."
Today, California's fiscal position is dramatically different. While the budget still faces challenges, the state has made undeniable progress: the Legislature has enacted budgets that consistently increased savings, addressed many of the state's outstanding debts, and most recently passed a budget with a higher level of reserves than the state has seen in decades. Few could have predicted this turnaround.

The 2019-20 Budget California's Fiscal Outlook - In anticipation of the upcoming state budget process, our office publishes California's Fiscal Outlook each year. This year, the report is shorter and more focused, but we have supplemented it with a fuller discussion of the outlook for Proposition 98's minimum guarantee over the next several years. Additionally, we have provided shorter pieces in Health and Human Services and other areas.
  • The Budget Is in Remarkably Good Shape. It is difficult to overstate how good the budget's condition is today. Under our estimates of revenues and spending, the state's constitutional reserve would reach $14. 5 billion by the end of 2019-20. In addition, we project the Legislature will have an additional $14. 8 billion in resources available to allocate in the 2019- 20 budget process. The Legislature can use these funds to build more budget reserves or make new one-time and/or ongoing budget commitments. By historical standards, this surplus is extraordinary. 
  • Longer-Term Outlook Is Positive.  The nearby figure displays our longer-term General Fund outlook under two different scenarios and assuming current law and policies stay the same. The first scenario shows continuing economic growth and the second shows a recession beginning in 2020-21. If the economy continues to grow, as shown on the left side of the figure, the state has operating surpluses averaging around $4. 5 b illion per year, but declining over time. In the recession scenario, as shown on the right side, the state has enough reserves to cover its deficits over the outlook period. 
  • With More Commitments, Reserves Might Not Fully Cover the Budget Problem. Both of these scenarios assume the Legislature makes no new commitments (such as spending increases or tax reductions) in 2019-20 or later. That is, under these scenarios, the Legislature would use all of the nearly $15 billion in available resources in 2019-20 to build more reserves (reaching a total reserve level of about $30 billion by the end of 2019-20). If the Legislature makes new ongoing commitments in 2019-20, however, reserve levels under a recession scenario would be lower and the state would face higher operating deficits. Depending on the extent of these commitments, reserves might not fully cover a budget problem that emerges during a recession.
  • More Reserves Would Be Needed to Mitigate Reductions to School Funding.  In our Fiscal Outlook publications, we assume the state funds schools and community colleges at their minimum level. More explicitly, this means under our assumptions that General Fund spending on K- 14 e ducation declines even as the state maintains other programmatic spending using reserves. This assumption is in keeping with the publication's aim to show spending under current law and policy, which generally has been to fund schools and community colleges at the minimum required level. If instead the Legislature wanted to mitigate the impact on schools and spend above the minimum level, the state's operating deficits would be larger and more reserves would be needed to cover the budget problem.
  • The State's Budget Condition Can Change Quickly.  Our office has produced a Fiscal Outlook  every year since 1995. In dollar terms, the available surplus for 2019- 20 i s easily the largest our office has ever estimated. As a percent of overall revenues, it is second only to the estimated $10. 3 b illion surplus in 2001-02, which we projected in November 2000. However, as the state experienced in 2001, these fortunes can change quickly. In the dot-com bust and ensuing recession, state revenues declined precipitously. The very next year, our Fiscal Outlook  found the state's surplus had disappeared, and instead, the budget faced a deficit of $12. 4 b illion.
  • Legislature Has Unique Opportunity to Prepare for Coming Challenges.  In the coming years, the budget will face challenges. The most significant risk to our outlook is the economy, which could slow and result in billions of dollars in revenue losses annually. Decisions outside of the Legislature's control, for example by the federal government or state retirement systems, also can affect the state budget. The $ 15 b illion surplus we anticipate for 2019-20 gives the Legislature a unique opportunity to prepare for these  foreseen-and  other  unforeseen-challenges  still to come.
Partner Updates

With 20 new governors and 16 re-elected governors starting new terms in January, 2019 has the potential to be a year of big change at the state level. This is particularly the case in the early childhood policy arena, as many newly elected governors discussed early childhood education as part of their campaigns. Governors are in a prime position to make progress and lead on this issue to elevate the positive impact that access to high-quality early childhood education can have for children, working families, and businesses. 

In this report, CAP lays out an agenda for governors to make progress on early childhood in 2019 and beyond 

The agenda provides an action plan for the first 100 days of an administration, recommending governors demonstrate their commitment to early childhood in their State of the State address and budget proposal and develop a governing structure that prioritizes the needs of young children and their families. The report recommends states use these early efforts to build support for long-term solutions, including making home visiting available to all families, providing high-quality, affordable child care to all families and establishing universal, full-day pre-kindergarten programs for three- and four-year-olds. 

This statement can be attributed to Olivia Golden, executive director of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP).

Washington, DC, December 12, 2018--After months of debate and negotiation, Congress finally passed the 2018 farm bill today, reaffirming that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is our nation's most effective anti-hunger program. Following the historic support of the Senate-passed bill, the final version of the farm bill, which also funds the nation's agricultural programs, protects access to food assistance for more than 40 million people who struggle against hunger. The farm bill improves SNAP by building on best practices in workforce development to better connect SNAP participants to meaningful jobs, strengthening program integrity, and improving the technology used to administer the program.

During increasingly partisan times, CLASP is grateful that key members of Congress worked across the aisle to ensure SNAP continues to help feed workers, parents, children, seniors, and people with disabilities. In particular, we applaud the hard work of Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) as well as House Committee on Agriculture Ranking Member Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota) for their leadership and commitment to protecting SNAP from cuts and harmful changes. We thank them and other champions in Congress for ensuring that SNAP will continue to help families in low-income households purchase food.

Of Interest
Upcoming Events 
Child Care Advocacy Day


January 23, 2019
9:30am-4:00pm
California Endowment Building - Downtown  Sacramento
We invite you to partner with those noted above for a  Child Care Advocacy Day!
The day will begin with an expert panel sharing their input, reactions and top priorities on the 2019-20 Governor's Budget.  

In order for us to be successful securing more services for families and children, we must work together, collect the data, and educate our elected officials about the past successes we have had, but of huge unmet need that still must be addressed.

In the morning we will hear from experts about what Governor-elect has proposed in his January budget.  We then will have time to ask questions and discuss our collective strategy for meeting with legislators in the afternoon.  The legislative meeting times will be set up and you simply need to share with us who you would like to meet with, i.e., your elected representatives.  It is encouraged that if you have district specific information relevant to a specific legislator, bring it.  

Finally, in the afternoon, we are working to schedule for legislators and those interested a showing of the child care documentary  No Small Matter.  This showing is the first major theatrical documentary to kick start the public conversation about early car and education.  

Planned Schedule of Events
CAPPA staff will be scheduling the legislative visits.  You will receive a schedule, room assignments, and legislative advocacy packet when you check in.  If you have a specific member you would like to visit, click here.  
9:30am: Check in at the California Endowment- 1414 K Street,
               Suite 500, Sacramento, CA 95814
9:45am-12:00pm: Opening remarks and budget panel discussions
12:00pm-12:30pm: Legislative "prep-talk" and lunch
1:00pm-4:00pm: Legislative Visits
 1:30pm: Tentatively planned at 1:30pm in the State Capitol we will be showing 

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All New Early Learning & Child Care Webinar Series for 2018!

Build or Add to your  Resource Library!
This is Your Opportunity to Receive Professional Development in a Format Convenient to You.

Topic for December 2018:
Mental Health in Early Childhood Education
Ash Archambeau, Youth Program Director & Teacher, Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies Kids Programs 
The science of child development shows that the foundation for sound mental health is built early in life, as early experiences-which include children's relationships with parents, caregivers, relatives, teachers, and peers-shape the architecture of the developing brain. Disruptions in this developmental process can impair a child's capacities for learning and relating to others, with lifelong implications. During this webinar we will discuss; 
  1. What is mental health in early childhood?
  2. Getting in early for children's mental health
  3. Mental health difficulties in early childhood
  4. What causes children's mental health difficulties?
  5. What parents and caregivers can do
  6. Where can I learn more?
Click Here to see more details, topics and to register for the all new 2018 series.

The 2010- 2017 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.