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September 2019 Featured Member Agency
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Hively, formerly Child Care Links, is a well-respected social service agency which has, for over 40 years, provided a wide range of services and support for the youngest, most vulnerable residents in Alameda County. Nearly all of the families we serve are living in poverty and it is our mission to provide them with the support and the resources they need to break the cycle of poverty.
Hively serves as a valuable partner to the Alameda County Department of Social Services and the California Department of Education, and these partnerships are integral to strengthening and supporting County and State efforts to meet the needs of its most vulnerable children and families. Families of every configuration are referred to or seek out services at Hively for help navigating the complex realities of raising children. With an agency focus on finding and supporting the best care and support for children, Hively is uniquely positioned to provide the support these families need and provide them with the services necessary to achieve the best possible and least restrictive outcomes for their children.
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Human Response Network's 28th Annual Children's Festival
This year, our agency held its 28th Annual Children's Festival.
It is held each year the Saturday following Mother's Day in Weaverville, CA.
The Festival runs from 11:00am-3:00pm and is a free event.
Agencies from all over Trinity County and some from Redding, come and bring an activity for children to do and information for parents and guardians.
There are all kinds of activities from Smokey Bear, to climbing in Ambulances and Sheriff's boats, to face painting, drawing and all kinds of games.
There is also a place for live entertainment. This ranges from children playing their violin's to high school students playing guitar's and singing, to adults playing guitars and inviting children to sing along with them.
The Trinity High School BBQ club barbecues for us. Lunch includes a hot dog or hamburger, sun chips, apples and a drink available for $2.
The Children's Festival is an activity that everyone all across the county looks forward to each year.
The last few years we have had an attendance of around 500 people.
We have grown from a few booths with activities, to having over 35 booths and renting inflatable slides for the children to use.
One of the great outcomes is the people who volunteer at each booth also walk around and learn what other people and programs have available to help children and families in our community.
This helps form strong relationships in our community.
We have started the planning process for our 29th annual Children's Festival which will be Saturday May 23, 2020.
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CAPPA Member Only Benefits
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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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Fiscal Year 2019-20 Two-Day Fiscal Training for Center-Based Contractors.
Additional information regarding location details and how to sign up for these trainings will be forthcoming
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Is Your Organization Hiring?
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There is no charge for CAPPA members.
Non-members will be charged a fee of $75.
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Colusa County Office of Education
Solano Family and Children's Services
International Institute Los Angeles
Children's Council San Francisco
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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.
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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
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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
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September 13th was the last day for any bill to pass through the Legislature this year. The members will now be on interim recess. The Governor has until October 13th to sign or veto bills.
Click here to see all of the legislation identified of interest to our field.
Below are a couple high profile bills pending action by Governor Newsom:
As legislation is signed, we will report it out to you as part of our Monday Morning Update. If you would like to track the bills that Governor Newsom has taken action, updates can be found by
clicking here.
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 809 -
Assemblymember Miguel Santiago
Title Protections for Pregnant and Parenting College Students
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 809 on September 6, 2019.
"Students should never have to choose between their pregnancy or parenting responsibilities and a higher education," Santiago said. "As Betsy DeVos works overtime to roll back Title IX protections, California is doubling down to strengthen them. If we can help more young mothers earn their degree by simply providing them with information about their protected rights, then we absolutely should. And to be frank - it's long overdue."
According to the author, "Current federal and state law does not require universities to publish information regarding pregnant and parenting students' rights under Title IX. Enactment of AB 809 will make information available to pregnant and single parent students regarding their legal rights under Title IX so that they are aware of all the options available to them to stay in school and finish their degree."
"By simply posting Title IX protections for pregnant and parenting students to their websites, colleges and universities will provide students with information that can help them overcome challenges that otherwise may have caused them to leave school. It will also encourage oncampus childcare programs to prioritize children of single parent students to make it easier for students to secure childcare."
The California Catholic Conference writes that, "...single parents comprise a growing percentage of college students, but obtaining a degree while juggling the demands of parenthood causes some students to drop out. According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, four in ten women attending community college nationwide report that are likely to drop out of school because of parental obligations While rights and protections for pregnant and parenting students already exist under Title IX, many students are unaware of these rights and protections. By 2012, the number of single mothers in college came close to one in five of all women in college...this bill helps single parents overcome challenges that otherwise may cause them to leave college."
AB 809 won overwhelming bipartisan support in both the state Assembly (76-0) and the Senate (39-0). It will take effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
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 2019-20 State Budget Information
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The California Health and Human Services (CHHS) Agency is inviting you to review and respond to this Request for Proposal (RFP) for Research, Development, and Project Management Services for the Master Plan for Early Learning and Care (MPELC) for California initiative.
The CHHS Agency, in concurrence with the California State Board of Education (SBE) and in consultation with the California Department of Education (CDE), invites creative and cost-effective proposals to provide Research, Development, and Project Management Services for the completion of the MPELC for the State of California.
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SOLD OUT!!
Sharing Our Stories...Building Bridges...
Cultivating Caring Communities
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.
The California Resource & Referral Network (Network) and the California Alternative Payment Program Association (CAPPA) have joined together to, plan, develop and deliver the Joint 2019 Annual Conference.
This conference provides a unique opportunity for staff to come together to discuss and share common issues, successes and challenges as well as time for each of us to get to know our colleagues and renew friendships. This conference is different from the variety of meetings and conferences related to our work, for this conference is by, for, and about the work we do in R&R and APP.
This year's Annual Conference includes a variety of workshops to meet the needs of staff working with parents; staff providing training and technical assistance to child care providers; program staff-supervisors; managers and directors.
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Click here to add your logo to the growing list above.
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CLASP survey for early childhood providers on immigration policy impacts
CLASP is administering a survey to learn more about how early childhood programs and the families they serve are affected by immigration policy changes. If you work directly with children and families, CLASP would like to hear from you! Your responses will be kept anonymous. Question topics include children's behavior and mental health; parental needs; public benefit participation; program attendance and enrollment changes; families who have experienced immigration enforcement actions; and existing resources and needs for support. Participants will be entered to win a $50 gift card. Click here to learn more and take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/claspimmigrantfamilies.
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UC Berkeley's Proposed Master's-Degree Survey
Dear Early Childhood Educators, Advocates, and Leaders,
To help prepare the next generation of early childhood leaders, UC Berkeley is building a new Master's-level program.
We need your input; we're aiming to build that program you wish you or your junior colleagues could pursue.
Click here to complete the survey.
Can you first forward this
survey link to your EC colleagues -- at any point in their careers -- and then complete this
10-minute survey? This qualifies you for winning one of three $150 gift cards!
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Angela and Patrice: A Conversation on the Need for Affordable Child Care
Child care is a multigenerational issue that especially affects women who parent. Many of the financial and job sacrifices mothers had to make for their children decades ago are still necessary today.
Watch Angela and her daughter Patrice discuss how a lack of sustained investment in quality, affordable child care affects their family.
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Colleges Could Do More To Help Student Parents Pay For Child Care, Watchdog Says
When Lesley Del Rio goes to the library to do her college math homework, she often has a study buddy: her precocious 8-year-old son, Leo.
Del Rio is working on her associate degree; Leo is working on third grade.
And Del Rio is not alone: More than 1 in 5 college students in the U.S. are raising kids. That's more than 4 million undergraduates, and they are
disproportionately women and people of color. Of those students, more than half will leave school without getting a degree.
That's all, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog. The report, first obtained by NPR, found that schools often aren't giving student parents information that could help them access untapped federal money to pay for child care.
Melissa Emrey-Arras, who led the GAO's review, says, "These parents have a lot going on in their lives in terms of school and young children, and we think it's important to make information easily available for them about financial aid options so that they can make choices that will help them."
Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington state Democrat and ranking member of the Senate education committee, said in a statement that the report "shows there are simple steps that colleges and the [U.S.] Department of Education can take to better inform student parents of their financial aid options. The lack of affordable, high-quality child care shouldn't hold anyone back from achieving their dreams."
Access to child care is one of the biggest barriers student parents face. For Del Rio, who works full time, attending night classes at her community college presented a real challenge. "Who's gonna take care of my child then?" she recalls thinking. "There isn't child care open until 10 p.m."
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Nearly a decade into a long economic recovery from the Great Recession, the U.S. Census Bureau's poverty and health insurance reports for 2018 show resounding signs of trouble for our country's lowest-income residents. Most alarmingly, the number of people with health insurance coverage declined for the first time since 2009, by nearly 2 million, reversing the trend of dramatic and historic gains in coverage since passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Among children, 425,000 more were uninsured in 2018 versus 2017, reversing a decades-long trend toward greater coverage. This concerning reversal, including a significant worsening among Hispanic children and among young children (under age 6), likely reflects multiple attacks on health insurance coverage for people with low incomes. Notably, the Trump Administration is waging ongoing efforts to undermine the ACA and Medicaid access and a hateful anti-immigrant agenda that's causing a chilling effect on immigrant families' access to public programs.
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On Thursday, 10 Democratic presidential candidates will debate. It would be a natural opportunity to provoke a national conversation on the subject. But a question about child poverty hasn't been asked at a presidential debate in 20 years, not since a Republican primary debate in 1999, according to the Children's Defense Fund.
Presidential candidates have been asked about the World Series, about cursing in movies, even about
flag lapel pins more recently than they have been questioned about child poverty. We've had 147 presidential debates in a row without a single question on the topic (
here's a petition calling for more questions on the issue). I hope Thursday's debate won't be the 148th.
UNICEF says America
ranks No. 37 among countries in well-being of children, and Save the Children puts the United States at
No. 36. European countries dominate the top places.
American infants at last count were 76 percent more likely to die in their first year than children in other advanced countries, according to
an article last year in the journal Health Affairs. We would save the lives of 20,000 American children each year if we could just achieve the same child mortality rates as the rest of the rich world.
Half a million American kids also suffer lead poisoning each year, and the youth suicide rate is at its
highest level on record.
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State Senate Approves Bill Covering Child Care Costs With Campaign Funds
California would join a growing number of states allowing candidates for political office to use campaign funds to pay for child care under a bill that has cleared the state Senate.
The bill approved Tuesday by the state Senate would only cover child care expenses incurred directly because the parent or guardian is running for office. The state Assembly still must approve the bill before it goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature.
The bill defines child care expenses as professional day care, babysitting, food and beverages, transportation, after school programs, summer day camps and preschool.
The state Fair Political Practices Commission has allowed candidates to use campaign funds for some child care services since 1990. But a legislative analysis notes the rules are vague.
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In California, a new war on poverty
It's been a long time since the United States waged a "war on poverty." But here in California, a new war is underway. Under the leadership of Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature, our recently enacted state budget confronts our poverty crisis with unprecedented investments in healthcare, preschool, CalWORKS, earned-income tax credits, and expanded juvenile justice and foster care funding and reforms.
Californians should be proud of these investments. But we must also recognize that they do little to help our state's most vulnerable population - children living in deep poverty.
The good news is that our state's policymakers now have an opportunity to end deep child poverty by implementing the Targeted Child Tax Credit proposed by the state's Lifting Children and Families Out of Poverty Task Force.
For the sake of our state's children, and in the interest of all taxpayers, we urge the governor and Legislature to enact the recommended Targeted Child Tax Credit. It's an evidence-based solution to one of the state's most costly problems.
The threshold for deep poverty varies with family size, the cost of living, and other factors.
As a benchmark, the deep poverty threshold for a single person with two children is, on average, about $13,400. Nearly a half-million of the state's children are in deep poverty, a number that would fill cities approximately the size of Long Beach, Oakland, Bakersfield, or Anaheim.
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California is about to rewrite the rules of the gig economy
California is in the final stretch of its bid to regulate the gig economy.
On Aug. 30, the state's Senate Appropriations Committee cleared
Assembly Bill 5, moving it a crucial step closer to becoming state law. It is now widely expected the bill, known as AB5, will pass a full Senate vote before the legislative session ends Sept. 13 and be signed by governor Gavin Newsom. The bill would likely force many gig companies to reclassify their independent contractors as employees, pulling the very foundation of the gig economy out from under it.
Newsom had kept his cards close to the vest on AB5, but on Sept. 2-Labor Day in the US-he publicly declared his support for the bill in an
op-ed in the Sacramento Bee. "Reversing the trend of misclassification is a necessary and important step to improve the lives of working people," Newsom wrote. "That's why, this Labor Day, I am proud to be supporting
Assembly Bill 5, which extends critical labor protections to more workers by curbing misclassification."
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