"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing"
January 25, 2021 | Issue #4
Celebrating a Successful Virtual Advocacy Day
On behalf of the over 45 organizations that came together in unity focused on making sure that the most fragile of Californians are provided access to food, child care, housing and other core necessities, we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all that participated last Thursday in legislative visits, educating lawmakers and advocating! Collectively, we were able to connect to over 50 legislative offices in ONE DAY, and this would not have been possible without all of you. In addition, thank you to our expert group of panelists and speakers from California Department of Education, Department of Social Services, California Budget and Policy Center, Assembly Budget Committee, Children's Council of San Francisco, Children Now, GRACE and Parent Voices!
All resources and materials from the day can be found here:
Also, we would like to give special recognition to our event sponsors!
Governor Makes Key Appointment

On Friday, it was announced that Maria Guadalupe “Lupe” Jaime-Mileham, 45, of Fresno, has been appointed Deputy Director of the Child Care and Development Division at the California Department of Social Services. Jaime-Mileham has been Senior Director for Early Care and Education in the Office of the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools since 2014. She was Deputy Director of the Central Valley Children’s Services Network from 2009 to 2014, Adjunct Infant Toddler Instructor at WestEd Partners for Quality Infant and Toddler Caregiving from 2009 to 2014 and Subsidized Manager for the Central Valley Children’s Services Network from 2001 to 2009. She is a member of the Early Childhood Policy Council, National Association for the Education of Young Children and the County Offices of Education Program Administrators of Child Development. Jaime-Mileham earned a Doctor of Education degree from California State University, Fresno and a Master of Education degree from National University. This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $164,256. Jaime-Mileham is a Democrat.
2021-22 State Budget Updates
On January 10, Governor Newsom released his 2021-22 State Budget Proposal. Click here to read the budget summary along with Department of Finance (DOF) documents with more details.

The proposal released notes to close a $54.3 billion funding gap. Concern of a recession coming on, the proposal casts California's financials in a better position than anticipated.

In the weeks since the budget release, and in review of Department of Finance documents, Legislative Analyst's Office and the California Budget and Policy Center, questions and concerns continue to arise.

Q: Is there a real commitment to fund child care separate from transitional kindergarten and public preschool?
A: No. The proposed budget actually cuts access to child care slots of between 8,682 to 15,563.
California’s proposed 2021-22 January state budget is $227.2 billion. Total funding for all of California’s child care and development programs including one-time funding, state preschool and afterschool program funding is $5.2 billion. 
FACT: Proposed funding for all child care programs fell to 2.37 percent of the state budget. 
FACT: Total child care slots outside of Proposition 98 inclusive of center-based, Family Child Care Homes (FCCHs), Alternative Payment (AP) voucher, CalWORKs Stages 2 & 3, Migrant AP is 216,453. Of that total, vouchers allocated for California’s working poor to secure child care 66,712; 8,682 less than FY 2019-20 of 75,394.

Q: Is there a real commitment to increase reimbursement rates to family child care providers and centers?
A: No. The proposed budget continues to reimburse family child care providers based on 2015 data (2016 Regional Market Rate (RMR) Survey). In 2015, the minimum wage was $9.00 per hour. In 2021, the minimum wage is $14.00 per hour.
To give an example of the rates paid for infant full-time care, rates can range from roughly $3.20 per hour to roughly $9.50 per hour depending on licensure status.
The governor's budget does note that the state is committed to collective bargaining with the new Child Care Providers Union (CCPU). However, there is no commitment to an increase either in this fiscal year or next.

Q: Is there a commitment to invest in building capacity of the private family child care providers and centers on par with those as part of the public school system?
A: No. During the immediate actions taken during COVID was to sweep one-time allocated funding from programs. For child care, there was $245 million for facilities that would've supported both family child care providers and centers. In the governor's 2021-22 budget, there is allocated $200 million from General Fund (GF) where child care is funded for use ONLY by public schools.

In 2016, the CBPC reported that over 1.2 million income eligible children in need of child care did not receive services. In 2017-18 that number surged to 2.032 with1.804 income eligible with no access and roughly 230,000 with partial access. Since that time and adding the pandemic and the loss of jobs, it is rumored that there has been an increase to over 2.5 million lacking access to child care.

Taking into account all of the above, the total proposed number of child care voucher slots for California's poorest working moms and dads to access is 66,712.

The conversation for child care and early learning must be restarted. The conversation must start with where is the critical need (absolutely with lack of access to infant care), what are the needs of the working family AND the child, and how do we build upon the existing private family child care and center capacity with public partnerships.
The Department of Finance document actually shows a loss of 8,682 child care slots for working moms and families to access in the 2021-22 fiscal year. We must all demand transparency in the California's budget process.

The Legislative Analyst's Office shows a loss of 15,563 child care slots for working moms and families to access in the 2021-22 fiscal year.

Prior to COVID, there were over 2 million income eligible infant, toddlers and children with no access to child care. The pandemic has added to that number. It is very concerning that there is a proposed cut from the governor of between 8,682 to 15,563 child care slots for the poorest of families to access.

California's economy cannot come back if access to child care is not provided.
Upcoming Budget Hearings of Interest - Click here to view full schedule
  • January 25 @ 10:30 - ASM Budget Committee - Subject: Immediate Budget Action POSTPONED
  • January 26 @ 9:00 - ASM Budget Subcommittee 2 - PROPOSITION 98, TK-12 AND EARLY EDUCATION OVERVIEW OF THE GOVERNOR’S 2021–22 BUDGET
  • January 28 @ 8:00 - ASM Budget Committee - Subject: Immediate Budget Action
  • February 16 @ 2:30 - ASM Budget Subcommittee 2 - TK-12 EDUCATION
Legislation Updates

To date, 588 bills have been introduced. Of the 588, 327 are Assembly Bills (ABs) and 261 Senate Bills (SBs).

Melissa Hurtado introduces SB 61 – Supportive Services for Work Force Training Programs
Amid California’s staggering rates of child poverty, the need for workforce training so that parents can improve job marketability highlights an effort to alleviate cycles of poverty that too often place heavy burdens on children.
SB 61 will provide needed support for the unemployed and underemployed to finish workforce training programs, aiding their participation and reducing attrition rates.

Too often, individuals do not complete said programs due to a lack of child care or transportation. This bill would require the California Workforce Development Board to establish and administer the Lifting Families Out of Poverty Workforce Training Supportive Services Program. This new program would address the needs and displacement of workers in the Central Valley with grants for low-income workforce training participants. Fact Sheet
Senator Melissa Hurtado grew up in the Central Valley. As the daughter of immigrant parents and the first in her family to graduate college, Melissa knows firsthand what it means to achieve the American dream. That is why she serves in the State Senate – to advocate for access to healthcare, quality schools, good paying jobs and the opportunity for a better life.
After getting her degree at Sacramento State, Hurtado returned home to the Valley to serve her community and build a better life for Valley families. She served on the Sanger city council from 2016 until her election to the Senate in November 2018. Click here to read full biography.
Other bills of interest the field:
NOTE: If there is a piece of legislation that you would like to highlight, email here. Remember the distribution of this update is roughly 6,200.
Advocacy Day Roll Call

CAPPA recognizes the following legislators for their participation in Child Care and End Child Poverty Advocacy Day, which took place on January 21, 2021.



Below are a few highlights of our meetings, featuring Assemblymembers Joaquin Arambula, Mark Stone, and Christopher M. Ward. To all we say THANK YOU!
Legislative Hearings of Interest

  • January 26 @ 1:30pm - ASM Joint Hearing: Human Services & Judiciary
  • January 27 @ 1:30pm - ASM Education
  • January 28 @ 12:00pm - ASM Select Committee on Latina Inequities - Unseen Latinas: Economic and Health Impacts on Latinas during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Federal News
We have a new President and Vice President! On January 20th, 2021 President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn into office. With that came a flurry of new administrative appointments, nominations, and executive orders some of which are highlighted below.  

Presidential Appointments and Nominations   

·        Xavier Becerra, Health and Human Services: Xavier Becerra is the California Attorney General who has sued numerous times to protect the Affordable Care Act and women’s health. He previously served 12 terms in Congress representing Los Angeles. He will be the first Latino to head HHS. 
·        Heather Boushey, Council of Economic Advisors: Heather Boushey is the former President & CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and has focused on the intersection between economic inequality, growth, and public policy. 
·        Jennifer Klein, Co-Chair White House Gender Policy Council: Jennifer Klein is Chief Strategy and Policy Officer at TIME’S UP. Klein has worked on gender equality for over 25 years, including as a Co-Chair of the Women and Families Policy Committee and a member of Women for Biden during the Biden-Harris campaign, Senior Advisor on Women’s Issues on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Deputy and Senior Advisor in the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, and as a Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and First Lady Hillary Clinton’s senior domestic policy advisor at The White House. Klein has taught gender issues as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center and a Senior Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute. Klein graduated from Brown University and Columbia Law School. 
·        Carmel Martin, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council for Economic Mobility:  Carmel Martin was a senior policy advisor for the Biden for President campaign. Martin served as the assistant secretary for policy and budget at the U.S. Department of Education during the Obama-Biden Administration. Martin was a founding employee and, after her service in the Obama-Biden Administration, she was the executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress. Prior to her appointment by President Obama, Martin served as general counsel and deputy staff director of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in the Senate. 
·        Julissa Reynoso, Co-Chair White House Gender Policy Council: During the Obama-Biden administration, Reynoso served as U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere in the U.S. Department of State. Previously, Reynoso served on the boards of several nonprofit and advocacy organizations and was on the faculty of Columbia Law School and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. She served as a trustee for New York-Presbyterian Hospital and for Columbia University, and was on the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law and the Truman National Security Project. Reynoso was born in the Dominican Republic, migrated to the United States at the age of seven, and grew up in the Bronx, New York City. She clerked for Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York and is a graduate of Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia Law School.  
·        Neera Tanden, Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Neera Tanden is the CEO of the Center for American Progress and the CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. She previously served in the Obama and Clinton administrations and as a senior advisor for health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she helped to craft the Affordable Care Act. 

Biden-Harris Administration Release Executive Order and Memorandum about Early Education and Child Care
  
On January 21st, 2021 the Biden Harris Administration released an executive order about reopening and operation for early childhood education providers and a memorandum about personal protective equipment (PPE) and sanitization for child care facilities. The executive order supports accelerated distribution of funds for child care providers and facilitates data collection needed to safely reopen child care providers and Head Start programs, among other things. The memorandum directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make funds available to child care facilities and other entities for items like PPE and disinfecting services. This means that states can be reimbursed for those and other items with FEMA funds.    
 
Child Care Workers Left Out of Vaccination Priority in Some States  
At the federal level, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) suggests that K-12 and child care workers, among others, be given vaccination priority, along with other essential workers. However, these guidelines are recommendations only and aren’t binding on states. As a result, some states have said they will vaccinate all educators together while others have placed childhood educators in a lower priority vaccination tier. Child care educators are currently serving families in person and are essential in economic recovery and should be given priority vaccination.   
Most reviewed federal bills:

1.H.R.127 [117th]To provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of certain ammunition.
2.H.Res.14 [117th]Censuring and condemning President Donald J. Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election in the State of Georgia.
3.H.Res.24 [117th]Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
4.H.Res.41 [117th]Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 24) impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
5.H.Res.21 [117th]Calling on Vice President Michael R. Pence to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments of the Cabinet to activate section 4 of the 25th Amendment to declare President Donald J. Trump incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as acting President.
6.H.Res.8 [117th]Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, and for other purposes.
7.H.R.305 [117th]To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Officer Eugene Goodman.
8.H.R.133 [116th]Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
9.H.Res.26 [117th]Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
10.H.Res.38 [116th]Supporting the goals and ideals of Korean American Day.
Meeting Announcement: Early Childhood Policy Council
 
Please join us for a meeting of the Early Childhood Policy Council.
 
Wednesday, February 3, 2020
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
 
For those who would like to participate:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
 
Meeting materials:
A meeting agenda will be posted 10 days prior to the meeting at: https://www.chhs.ca.gov/home/committees/early-childhood-policy-council/
 
Reasonable accommodations:
We ask that any person who wishes to receive meeting materials in an alternative format, which would enable that person to participate at the meeting, please contact Chelsea Rau at Chelsea.Rau@chhs.ca.gov at least five business days prior to the meeting for this request.
CDE Information & Updates
Management Bulletin 21-02: Guidance on Implementation of Program Quality Requirements during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Management Bulletin (MB) 21-02 is available on the CDE, ELCD Management Bulletins web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/allmbs.asp. This MB provides guidance and reminders to contractors related to meeting contractual requirements in regards to program quality. In addition, this MB provides contractors with additional guidance regarding the implementation of requirements during the COVID-19 State of Emergency.
Management Bulletin 21-01
Subject: COVID-19 Guidance regarding Local Planning Councils and California Resource and Referral Programs

Management Bulletin (MB) 21-01 is available on the CDE, ELCD Management Bulletins web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/allmbs.asp. The CDE, ELCD is releasing updated guidance to Resource & Referral (R&Rs) programs and Local Planning Councils (LPCs) regarding requirements and instructions to support family need during the evolving coronavirus (COVID-19) State of Emergency in California.
To the extent possible, R&Rs must work directly with families whose children are enrolled in Emergency Childcare, and as the local R&R program, to assist families in accessing and navigating ongoing subsidized or nonsubsidized childcare services that meet the family need. The LPCs must continue to plan for early learning and care (ELC) services that meet the needs of the families in the local community during the COVID-19 State of Emergency. The LPCs must continue to assess and identify local child care needs. They should also continue to direct the community to available resources that support children and families in the community.
Key guidance for R&Rs includes, but is not limited to:
  • Coordinating childcare supply and referral to meet local childcare needs. 
  • Meeting ongoing data requirements.
  • Engaging in community outreach.
Key guidance for LPCs include, but are not limited to:
  • Partnering with the local agencies to encourage best practices and provide strategies and resources to the field.
  • Reporting newly emerging data about care needs for children of essential workers and the greater community to the CDE and the CDSS.
  • Connecting essential workers to needed childcare services, as applicable.
New Contractor’s and New Program Director’s Resources
Click Here to see resources and CDE Department Contacts
CAPPA is committed to supporting our field with a coordinated calendar. Click here to see current calendar of events. If you have an event to add, email CAPPA and it will be added.
The Weekly Good
An uplifting way to start the week, for those of us who need a break from the chaos that is our lives.
During this time where we are all stressed, it would be great to celebrate the positive. Each week we will celebrate everyday heroes, inspiring movements and great things happening in our field. 
Let us know what your organization is doing, we would love to feature you in the coming weeks!        
Field Happenings and Resources




Children's Council San Francisco

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Upcoming Partner Events
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February –
The Leadership Challenge Workshop – February 2 & 3, 9 & 10, 2021
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Interesting Reads
Biden Relief Proposal Underscores Child Care as Central to Economic Recovery

WASHINGTON – Today, President-elect Joe Biden released the details of his Covid-19 relief proposal to further aid families and businesses through the economic crisis created by the Coronavirus pandemic. The proposal includes $40 billion in dedicated relief for child care providers, along with significant tax benefits and direct financial support for families, underscoring the widespread and bipartisan understanding of the crucial role child care plays in our nation’s economy. 
“America’s economic recovery cannot succeed without child care,” said First Five Years Fund Executive Director Sarah Rittling. “Given the unsustainable financial circumstances most child care providers and families are in as a result of the ongoing pandemic, there can be no doubt that further relief is needed to ensure these essential businesses can afford to continue operating and parents can afford care. We are grateful to President-elect Biden for building on the bipartisan efforts made by Congress and for recognizing the role child care plays, both in the lives of families, and to our economic recovery. Moving forward, there is tremendous opportunity for Congress and the administration to work together to address the longstanding, systemic challenges families face in finding and affording high-quality early learning and care.”
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CAPPA's 2020-21 Board of Directors
President
Rick Richardson
Child Development Associates

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

Treasurer
Beth Chiaro
Child Care Resource Center 

Secretary
LaVera Smith
Supportive Services Fresno

Past President & Public Policy Advisor
Martin Castro
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation

Public Policy Chair
Gina Fromer
Children's Council of San Francisco 

Members-at-Large
Karen Marlatt
Valley Oak Children's Services

Tina Barna
Catalyst Community

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

Joie Owen
Glenn County Office of Education

Tracey Strack
Child Action, Inc.

Kendall Hirai
Crystal Stairs, Inc. 

Denyne Micheletti Colburn
CAPPA CEO

The representation of the CAPPA board spreads across all agency types and sizes, and represents voices from nearly every region in California 
ELCD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
January 19, 2021
Management Bulletin 21-02: Guidance on Implementation of Program Quality Requirements during the COVID-19 Pandemic
January 13, 2021
Management Bulletin 21-01: COVID-19 Guidance regarding Local Planning Councils and California Resource and Referral Programs
January 13, 2021
December 31, 2020
December 28, 2020
December 10, 2020
December 9, 2020
Management Bulletin 20-19a: Guidance on Family Fees for FY 2020-21
December 11, 2020
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