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Stanislaus County Office of Education - Child & Family Services
The fundamental work of the
is distinct and focuses on the period of life where the foundation for future success is built; ages zero to five. It's the time when the brain grows the most, where support and early intervention makes a huge difference for children and their families, and where the investments you make pay off. Child & Family Services gives children a head start in school, work, and life by educating children, supporting parents, and developing the professionals who work with them.
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Family Resource and Referral Center-Children and Youth Day Event- May 18, 2019
Family Resource and Referral Center hosts an annual Children and Youth Day event at Pixie Woods at Louis Park in Stockton, CA. Children & Youth Day at Pixie Woods is a free community event for families of San Joaquin County and surrounding areas. This year's theme was Super Heroes and the first 700 hundred children received a free super hero's cape. Businesses and non-profit agencies attend and provide their resources and information on health, literacy, nutrition, physical activity, and each offers a fun activity for the children. Everyone can participate in the mascot parade and dance their way throughout the park with the mascots or join the mascots and staff for music and movement activities, which continues throughout the course of the day. There are activities such as arts and crafts, face painting, and interactions with reptiles. For many children, this is a once a year opportunity to enter the beautiful setting of Pixie Woods free of charge and ride the carousel, train, boat and participate in the many numerous fun activities throughout the day.
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CAPPA Member Only Benefits
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Hotel Discounts
CAPPA has secured an amazing hotel offering for our members. As a CAPPA member, you have access to exclusive negotiated rates at thousands of hotels worldwide. This program can be utilized two ways; as an employee perk, and for corporate travel. Visit the
Member's Only website to register today!
CAPPA Member Benefits now available on the Members Only website:
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Just added to the Member's only website are two AP 101 webinars on Enrollment;
Enrolling Clients into the CalWORKs Program and
Enrollment Overview:
Welcome to the Alternative Payment Program
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CAPPA's
2018-19 Board of Directors
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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
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
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
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ELCD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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July 2, 2019
June 19, 2019
Implementing Optional Staff Training Days
State Median Income and Income Ranking Table for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-20
MB 19-04:
Family Fee Schedule for Fiscal Year 2019-20
May 14, 2019
Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Services and Adjustment
Factors
The ELCD will host a webinar on
Thursday, March 14, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. to provide technical assistance with the CDMIS.
January 28, 2019
January 4, 2018
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has amended regulations pertaining to CalWORKs, within the Eligibility and Assistance Standards Manual. The changes are detailed in
CDSS Manual Letter No. EAS-18-05
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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.
MCT Technology
Child Care Resource Center
Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County, Inc.
Pomona Unified School District- Child Development
Child Care Coordinating Council, Inc. of San Mateo County
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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.
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. Please make sure that you have a link included to an online version or viewing.
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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
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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*The Legislature is currently on summer break and will return in August!*
Monday, August 12, 2019:
- SEN Appropriations (Portantino, Chair) 10:00am - Room 4203
Click here
to see all of the legislation identified of interest to our field. Below are a couple of highlights of the results from the recent Appropriations committees:
Click here to see calendar of field events/interests and legislative hearings and deadlines. If you would like something added to the field calendar, click here and submit details.
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PROFILED BILL OF THE WEEK
AB 494 ~ Assemblymember Marc Aguiar-Berman
CalFresh Eligibility: Verification of Housing Costs
This bill
ensures that low-income Californians receive the maximum amount of CalFresh benefits they are eligible for by establishing that a shelter cost reported on a CalFresh application or recertification form is sufficient, and prohibiting county human services agencies from requesting additional documents unless the housing cost reported is questionable.
AB 494 was signed by Governor Newsom on July 12, 2019, Chapter 90.
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2019-20 State Budget Information
First Look: 2019-20 Budget Includes Balanced Investments, Leaves Opportunities to Improve the Economic Well-Being of More Californians 
On June 27, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the 2019-20 state budget, an agreement with state legislative leaders that makes a series of investments in creating economic security and opportunities for Californians, while also fostering the state's fiscal health.
The budget includes revenues and transfers of $146 billion for 2019-20. This represents an increase of more than $4 billion over the enacted 2018-19 budget, driven largely by the state's continued economic growth.
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Changes to the implementation date of Assembly Bill 603 provision regarding notification to providers
To all Executive Directors and Program Administrators of California Alternative Payment Programs (APPs), including California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Stage 2 (C2AP), CalWORKs Stage 3 (C3AP), Migrant Alternative Payment Program (CMAP), and Family Child Care Home Networks (FCCHN),
Recently, California's Governor signed Senate Bill (SB) 75, adopted as part of the omnibus trailer bill to the Budget Act of 2019-20. Among other things, SB 75 amended Education Code (EC) Section 8227.7,
which was added to EC, when the Governor signed Assembly Bill (AB) 603, (Chapter 706, Statutes of 2017). This section of EC, requires APPs, as of July 1, 2019, to provide notice to a child care provider of a change in reimbursement amounts for child care services, a change in the hours of care, rates, or schedules, an increase or decrease in parent fees, or a termination of services, at least 14 calendar days before the effective date of the intended action.
This notice is to inform you that SB 75 has changed the implementation date of this section of EC from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2020.
Further direction on the implementation of this section of EC will come at a later date.
If you have any questions regarding the information in this email, please contact your assigned ELCD Field Services Consultant. A list of consultants can be found at
https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/assignments.asp
or by phone at 916-322-6233.
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Fiscal Year 2019-20 Initial Payments
Dear Executive Directors of Child Care and Development Programs:
The Child Development and Nutrition Fiscal Services (CDNFS) Office is providing you with information about FY 2019-20 initial payment timelines.
Child development contracts must be signed and returned to the CDE Contracts Office prior to initial apportionments being authorized by CDNFS. The CDNFS Office authorizes payment for all executed contracts on July 1, provided that the budget has been enacted.
In previous years, contractors who returned their original contracts prior to the final budget enactment typically received initial apportionments in the second or third week of July. Due to the implementation of a statewide accounting system (FI$Cal) this year, additional time is required by the State Controller's Office (SCO) to set up child development budgets, causing up to a ten-day delay in processing initial apportionments. Initial 2019-20 apportionments will, therefore, be authorized mid-July and are expected to be received by contractors in the last week of July.
As a standard practice, the CDE recommends contractors have three months of operating capital, through cash or a line of credit, to operate their program during the contract period prior to receiving their first apportionments or in the event apportionments are withheld, delayed, or lost in the mail. The CDE will continue to work diligently with the SCO to process payments as quickly as possible.
Sincerely,
Andrea M. Johnson
Staff Services Manager III
Child Development and Nutrition Fiscal Services
Fiscal and Administrative Services Division
(916) 324-6562
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Contingency Funds Application Process
Dear Alternative Payment Program Contractors:
The purpose of this letter is to provide Alternative Payment Program (CAPP) contractors with information regarding the process to apply for contingency funds.
Pursuant to Education Code Section 8222.1, per the Budget Act of 2018, the California Department of Education (CDE) shall reallocate funds as necessary to reimburse CAPPs for actual and allowable costs incurred for additional services. A CAPP contractor may apply for reimbursement of up to three (3) percent of their contract amount, or for a greater amount subject to the discretion of the Department, based on availability of funds. Applications may be submitted as early as May 1, 2019, but no later than September 30, 2019. The CDE will approve or deny applications submitted pursuant to this section, but will not consider applications received after September 30, 2019, of the current calendar year for additional costs incurred during the 2018-19 fiscal year.
The CDE will distribute reimbursement funds for each approved application within 90 days of receipt of the application if it was filed between May 1 and July 20 inclusive of the current calendar year. Applications received after July 20 are not subject to the 90-day requirement for the distribution of funds. If requests for reimbursement pursuant to this section exceed available funds, CDE will assign priority for reimbursement according to the order in which it receives the applications.
Funds received by a CAPP contractor pursuant to this section that are not substantiated by the program's annual audit must be returned to CDE and are not subject to the appeal process.
If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact me at 916-324-6611, or email JClegg@cde.ca.gov.
Sincerely,
Jordan Clegg, Staff Services Manager I
Child Development & Nutrition Fiscal Services
Fiscal and Administrative Services Division
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Regional Technical Assistance Trainings - Summer 2019
July 30, 2019
Grass Valley
Sierra Nevada Children's Services
420 Sierra College Drive, Suite 100
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CAPPA member agencies, with the support of CAPPA & Children's Foundation, are putting together a series of Technical Assistance (TA) 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.
Topics to include:
Best Practices Session (10:00am-11:45am):
- Ongoing Review for Input on Draft GAU Review Guides and pending 12-month Regulations, which are both anticipated to go into effect in October/November.
- Ideas for Procurement process overhaul. This will be a Q&A and open discussion format.
- 12-Month Eligibility in Stage 1. This will be a Q&A and open discussion format.
- How to implement the two-week written notice regulation (AB 603)-Update will also be provided on the CAPPA concerns that are included in the budget conversations.
- Management Bulletins Discussion- We will review those Management Bulletins that you continue to have questions on, including 18-09 & 18-09(a) Electronic Banking & Direct Deposits
- Transfers- This will be a Q&A and open discussion format; Inter-county transfers and clarification on stage 2 transfers to be included
Lunch (11:45am-12:15pm)
CAPPA Budget and Legislative Discussion and Updates
(12:15pm-1:00pm)
- AB 378- Child Care Provider Union Bill
- Variable Work Schedule- is a remedy in site?
Peer-to-Peer Networking Session (1:00pm-2:00pm):
This portion of the agenda will allow attendees to share their successful strategies, tools and ideas.
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CAPPA Training: "Everything Fiscal"
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
9:30am-2:00pm
University of Phoenix
2860 Gateway Oaks Drive
Bldg. B, Ste. 100
Sacramento CA 95833
Classroom #121/122/123
CAPPA will be delivering a training focused specifically on APP fiscal issues on August 14th in Sacramento. Workshops will include "Fiscal Essentials" and a Q&A and open discussion session with CDE Fiscal and Agency Projections so that agencies can better monitor their contracts and also learn best practices!
9:30am-10:45am
Fiscal Essentials, CDE
CDNFS representatives will present a variety of fiscal topics affecting Alternative Payment contracts, including CalWORKs Stage 2, Stage 3 and CAPP. A wide variety of topics will be covered including the importance of reporting caseload and expenditure data accurately, how reported data affects projected earnings, payments and future year funding. Additionally, this presentation will include information regarding reporting procedures related to multiyear contracting for CAPP contracts. Whether the attendee is new to the agency or a seasoned accountant, everyone will benefit from this session.
10:45am-12:00pm
Fiscal Q&A Session
This session is all about getting your fiscal questions answered! This session will provide attendees the opportunity to get their questions answered, learn more about the topic as it relates to their circumstances and to get clarification. We ask that you submit your questions ahead of time so that we can plan this session and make it a valuable opportunity that will allow attendees to deepen their understanding of a specific topic.
Please submit your fiscal questions to CAPPA.
12:00pm-12:30pm
Lunch
12:30pm-2:00pm
Fiscal Projections:
Sean Tubridy, YMCA Childcare Resource Service; Michelle Ruggles, Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County (4Cs), and others TBA
Come prepared to hear how some agencies are doing their budget projections in light of 12-month eligibility, and data and trends that ought to be considered as part of any budget forecasting exercise. This workshop will help you better monitor your contracts and learn best practices that work efficiently. This workshop will take you step by step with interactive worksheets and templates.
**In the last part of this workshop, we will be breaking everyone into groups based on the system they use for projections. This will give attendees a chance to network with others that are using a similar method and make contact with someone they could follow-up with if they want more time to discuss.**
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Network and CAPPA Joint Annual Conference 2019
October 2-4, 2019
DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
The California Child Care Resource & Referral Network and the California Alternative Payment Program Association look forward to hosting our 7th Joint Conference together this fall.
Registration- Available end of this month:
The preliminary program and final conference registration form, including the ability to list all conferees individually and to select workshops, will be released later this month.
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.
Partnership Information:
Exhibitor and Sponsor Information is now available!
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Children Now Insider: It's Not Easy Being a Kid in California
The state ranks 35th in the country on children's well-being
The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently released the new edition of the KIDS COUNT® Data Book - the most comprehensive annual report on child well-being in the United States - which takes a 30-year look back at changes in child well-being, to when the first edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book was published.
Since 1990, America's child population has increased to nearly 74 million children (up from 64 million), as has its diversity - American kids are 25 percent Latino (up from 12 percent), 6 percent Asian and Pacific Islander (up from 3 percent) and 15 percent Black (unchanged since 1990); with an estimated 18 million children who are immigrants or living in families with an immigrant parent (children with at least one immigrant parent has doubled from 13 to 26 percent). And in California, where we have a little more than 9 million children, California kids are 52 percent Latino, 28 percent white, 13 percent Asian or Pacific Islander, and 6 percent Black. Overall, there are more children of color living in every state today than there were 30 years ago.
With increasing diversity in our state and nationwide, our economic and civic futures depend upon ensuring that all children have the opportunities and supports they need to thrive. Yet, data show that children of color continue to face structural barriers to achieving their full potential. It's yet another wake-up call that there is real urgency to creating state and national policies that tear down these barriers for children.
In fact, the bright spots in the Data Book show that commitment to policies that target inequity is the only way to move the state from its current spot as 35th in overall child well-being. For example, California ranks seventh among states for health metrics - the only index measure in which the state broke through the top 25. This high ranking is due in large part to state policies like Health4AllKids that focused on ensuring all children, regardless of immigration status, can enroll in health coverage.
Yet, California has much more work to do. The state ranks:
- 46th in economic well-being: 43% of California children live in households that spend more than a third of their income on housing (in 2017), the highest of any state on this indicator. Supports like increased access to affordable, high-quality child care can help to relieve some of the financial burden of raising kids in a high-cost state like California.
- 41st in family and community: California ranks at the very bottom in the nation when it comes to the number of children who are growing up in a household where the head lacks a high school diploma; 13% of California children are living in high-poverty areas; and more than 1 million children are living in impoverished areas. The expansion of programs like the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) and the CalWORKs Home Visiting Initiative can help bring children and families out of deep poverty.
- 36th in education: California has made modest progress in improving education outcomes for our kids. In 1992, 81 percent of fourth-graders were reading below proficiency; in 2017, this number fell to 69 percent. During the same timeframe, the percentage of eighth-graders who scored below proficient in math dropped from 88 percent to 71 percent. Despite these gains, California needs to make greater investments in high-quality education so that all students graduate from school ready for college, career and civic life.Let's make it easier to be a kid in California. The state can and must do better to ensure that all children have the opportunities and supports they need to reach their full potential.
To read the full
KIDS COUNT Data Book, visit www.aecf.org/databook.
Link to full article.
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States Where Child Care Is Most Affordable
NEARLY HALF OF FAMILIES in the U.S. spend 15% or more of their household income on child-care costs, according to a
study released Tuesday by Care.com.
The organization, which helps families find child care, senior care and other services, surveyed more than 4,000 U.S. parents in April and found that two-thirds of them are spending more on child care than they did in 2018.
More than two-thirds of parents also said these costs have created tension in their relationships and nearly 40% of respondents said they waited longer to have children due to child-care expenses.
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n some states, child care is far more affordable than in others. In
New Jersey
, hiring a nanny accounts for 35.5% of a family's annual household income, while parents in
New Mexico
spend 65.7% of their annual household income to have a nanny take care of their child(ren).
Maryland
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Connecticut
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New Hampshire
and
Minnesota
followed New Jersey as the most affordable states to hire a nanny.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, care is considered affordable if it is 7% or less of a family's household income.
When looking at the cost of care for toddlers at a day-care center, North Dakotans have the best deal, with day-care costs equating to 10.8% of families' annual household income. In D.C. that percentage rises to 26.8%, and in California it's 18.8%.
Nationally, parents spent an average of $596 per week for a nanny in 2018, compared to $472 in 2013, and $213 per week for a child-care center, compared to $186 in 2013.
As a result of these high child-care costs, Care.com found that 31% of parents said they had put themselves further into debt, while 37% said they stopped saving money.
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Rising Child Care Costs Eat Into Budgets
Like most roles that carry a great deal of responsibility, parenting comes with its fair share of stress. But a new survey suggests that much of that stress could be financial.
Child care costs are rising for a majority of Americans. In fact, nearly two-thirds of respondents to a
survey by online caregiving platform Care.com said they are spending more on child care this year than last year. Care.com set out to find out how those costs are impacting family budgets by surveying 4,146 parents for its annual Cost of Care survey.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, child care is deemed unaffordable if a family is spending more than 7% on it. Yet, more than 70% of respondents to the Care.com survey said they spend at least 10% of their income on child care, while nearly half spend more than 15% on child care-related costs each year.
While 31% of respondents said child care costs have led them to take on debt, others reported making major lifestyle changes and sacrifices in an attempt to manage the costs. Among them:
- 37% stopped saving
- 37% put a halt to debt repayments
- 41% cut out some non-child-related expenses, such as gym memberships and cable TV
For many families, child care costs have caused problems that go beyond finances. More than a third (36%) said the cost of child care has led to tension in their relationships. On top of that, 39% said child care costs have impacted their family planning and 39% said they either waited to have children or decided to have fewer children because of the high costs involved in taking care of them.
Child care costs impacting parents' career choices
Child care costs are also influencing parents' career decisions, as 63% of respondents said the financial burden had caused them to make professional moves. For example, 38% said they had changed jobs] to make more money to pay for child care, 36% said they had asked for a more flexible schedule and 26% said they had stopped working full time and switched to a part-time schedule in order to save money on child care.
Moms, in particular, felt the impact of child care costs on their careers. Of the mothers surveyed, more than half reduced their hours to save on the costs of child care while 25% left the workforce entirely.
The career decisions parents made were, in many cases, undesirable, as 22% said they later regretted the professional sacrifices they made in order to deal with rising child care costs.
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On child care, Newsom and his budget could be bolder
As a candidate for governor, Gavin Newsom put forward a bold vision of high-quality early education for all the state's youngest learners, and he is making good on his campaign promise. Early learning and child care occupy prominent places in the budget that went into effect this month, which is good news for a state that has fallen far behind most others in child care and early education quality and access.
The governor has said his goal is to make preschool available to every 3- and 4-year-old in California, and the new budget is a decent down payment on addressing the access problem. It will expand full-day public preschool for 4-year-olds in high-poverty communities and provide more money for facilities and training.
The budget also addresses quality indirectly by funding the development of a master plan for early education and child care by fall 2020. While taking time to work out the details is wise, some means of improving quality are obvious and important enough to be addressed without delay.
California needs to expand access to affordable child care and education, but we need to invest as much in quality as in access to get long-term benefits for children and the state. The research is clear that the quality of programs matters in reducing achievement gaps linked to family income. Universal preschool is a commendable goal, but expanding access without quality is not likely to improve results for kids in the long run.
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Privacy Act hinders
foster care placements
There are more than 55,000 children in foster care in California and about 34 percent of them will be placed with relatives according to AdoptUSKids - that is, if social workers can find their family.
When a child is removed from the home and placed in out-of-home care, relatives are the preferred resource because this type of placement maintains the child's connections with their family. In fact, state law requires that preferential consideration be given to a request by a relative of the child for placement of the child with the relative.
This has proven to improve outcomes for these children with less trauma during their time in care.
Unfortunately, the Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 may have compromised family finding and engagement efforts unintentionally with its consumer opt-out provision as child welfare workers need continued access to the appropriate information databases when undertaking the required efforts to find and engage family members to support children in foster care.
In order to accomplish this, child welfare workers must be able to locate these potential caregivers through outside private databases, because agencies do not and cannot collect and manage this data themselves. For thousands of children in California, timely access to information can be life changing.
This is why both Children Now and Alliance for Children's Rights supports Assembly Bill 1416 by Assemblymember Ken Cooley which would fix the new privacy law before it goes into effect Jan. 1, 2020 ensuring vital information for reunification and placement can continue uninterrupted.
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