SB 820 the trailer bill that has additional impacts to child care programs is pending action by Governor Newsom. The main areas for child care are included in Section 111. Changes include:
Language to fund family child care homes and centers as well as CalWORKs Stages 1, 2 & 3 with assistance to address hardships including decreased enrollment, ratios, etc.
Reduction from $62.5 million to $31.250 for one-time stipends for alternative payment and migrant payment programs
An addition of up to 14 paid nonoperational days in addition to the existing allowable 10 nonoperational days
From September 1 - June 30, 2021 family fees for families where ALL children in the family enrolled in subsidized early learning and care remain at home, either for distance learning or for families sheltering in place are waived. NOTE: If additional federal dollars are not received, direct service contractors, family childcare home providers participating in a family childcare home education network, and alternative payment provider will absorb the cost.
Contingent on receipt of additional federal funds:
$30 million for covering extension of the above noted family fees
$35 million to support alternative and migrant payment programs to reimburse providers for providing short-term childcare to eligible children when a provider is closed
Reduction from $50 - $30 million for state preschool programs to increase capacity for two years as follows:
1st priority - existing general childcare and development program contractors to expand new childcare services for children from 0-3
2nd priority to existing CSPP contractors to expand new capacity for full-day programs
3rd priority for general childcare and development programs or California state preschool programs
Reduction from $25 to $15 million in stipends for licensed childcare providers
Reduction from $125 million to $90 million for subsidized childcare provider stipends to assist all subsidized childcare providers with increased cost-of-care expensed incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic
Clarifies that a program that operates on the campus of a local educational agency that is closed by local or state public health guidance or order shall be reimbursed 100 percent of the contract maximum reimbursable amount or net reimbursable costs whichever is less
Click here to communicate your support of the Governor's signature on SB 820. In the subject line, you can scroll to find SB 820, Education Finance.
2020-2021 Legislation
California Legislative Updates:
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Below are bills that have been enrolled and are pending action by Governor Newsom:
AB 1835 (Weber & Quirk-Silva): Education finance: local control funding formula: supplemental and concentration grants. (See request below from The Children's Movement of California)
To see a list of all bills of interest and final actions as recorded, click here.
Click here to see calendar of field events/interests.
State Update from Partner
Build Up CA is elevating to Governor Newsom the disproportionately negative impacts being felt by family child care providers from COVID-19, wildfires and more. Specifically, many family child care providers invested financially in creating outdoor programs for children.
Specifically, the letter includes the following recommendations:
We recommend the following:
Assign one dedicated liaison at the state level for public health issues related specifically to early care and education in our current environment;
Allocate funding to licensed programs for emergency upgrades, including the acquisition of equipment such as air conditioners, air filtrations systems, fans, handwashing stations, and ice machines;
Designate cooling centers in at least one location per city or county affected by heatwaves for child care providers who can safely bring the children under their care to these facilities.
The Cost of Child Care During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Child care providers across the country are struggling to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite some additional funding appropriated by Congress through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, providers are facing increased costs and decreased revenue. This calculator quantifies the additional costs that licensed child care providers are facing as they provide safe and developmentally appropriate child care during the pandemic.
The Senate returned from recess this Tuesday and is McConnell expected to force a vote on his latest Senate Republican COVID-19 relief proposal by the end of this week. This proposal, which is only $500 billion in total, is not gaining any traction among Democrats and is not being taken seriously because it is so small. It includes only $15 billion for child care—the same as the last Republican proposal, HEALS—which would be $5 billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and $10 billion for the Back to Work Child Care Grants Act.
The path forward to reaching agreement on a relief package is unclear still, because sides are far apart on the total size of the package and some key issues, like state and local fiscal relief. What we’re hearing now is that Pelosi and Mnuchin have reached an agreement to have a clean continuing resolution (CR) to avoid a government shutdown. We are hearing this means that a relief package (if agreed to) will move separately. Unfortunately, the odds of a next relief package passing before the end of September (and therefore, before the election).
The next few weeks will be the last chance to get something passed before the focus switches entirely to the general election. We need to keep up the heat on all members to pass a comprehensive relief package before they leave! AND we need to keep pushing on our message and be explicit about our asks:
·The Senate Republican officer of $15 billion is NOT enough; in fact, it would only stabilize the system for about 6 weeks.
·We need at least $50 billion in a relief package for child care to save our system.
·Child care providers, educators and the families they serve – and the businesses that rely on child care being available for their workers – can’t wait any longer for relief.
CCDF State Plans Published in Federal Register for Public Comment
On September 10, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a request for public comment in the Federal Register on “Proposed Information Collection Activity; Child Care and Development Fund Plan for States/Territories for FFY 2022-2024.” Specifically, ACF requests comments on (a) whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. The comment period is 60 days, so comments are due on Monday, November 9, 2020.
We, the undersigned, are writing to request your support for a recovery package that
supports the basic needs of California’s young children. From child care closures, reduced hours, and layoffs, COVID-19 is driving changes that dramatically decrease the resources families with young children have available to purchase food. When it comes to supporting our most vulnerable children and their families, this is an “all hands on deck” moment. It's imperative that the next COVID recovery package include investments in early childhood nutrition, and recognize the critical role that child care, health care, and human services play in addressing food insecurity for families. Click here to read full letter.
Updated Briefs About Health and Safety Topics
Tracking the COVID-19 Recession’s Effects on Food, Housing, and Employment Hardships
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance (ECQA Center) is pleased to share an updated series of briefs about the health and safety training topics required in the 2016 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Program Final Rule for all child care providers that receive payment from the CCDF subsidy program.
Licensing and CCDF administrators may find these briefs helpful as they consider revisions to standards for both licensed and license-exempt providers. These briefs may also be useful in developing health and safety guidelines for child care providers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic—especially the brief about the prevention and control of infectious disease—because all the briefs provide links to best practice guidelines and examples of regulatory language on the topics.
This series of CCDF health and safety requirements briefs, updated in July 2020, provides an overview of national guidelines and state requirements related to the following topics:
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CDE Information & Updates
Management Bulletin 20-17: Requirements for Distance Learning Plans, Program Quality, and Distance Learning Services for Direct Service Contractors
Management Bulletin 20-17 is available at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/mb2017.asp, and provides direct service CDE, ELCD contractors guidance regarding the requirements for distance learning plans, program quality, and the delivery of distance learning services for children and families who are not receiving in-person services.
If you have questions regarding the information in this Management Bulletin, please contact your assigned Program Quality Implementation Regional Consultant on the ELCD Consultants Regional Assignments web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/assignments.asp.
Management Bulletin 20-16: Continued Funding Application Fiscal Year 2021–22
Management Bulletin 20-16 is available at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/mb2016.asp, and offers existing CDE, ELCD contractors the opportunity to request continued funding for fiscal year 2021–22.
If you have questions regarding the information in this Management Bulletin, please contact your assigned Program Quality Implementation Regional Consultant on the ELCD Consultants Regional Assignments web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/assignments.asp.
Emergency Disaster Relief Information Related to Statewide Emergency Due to Fires, Extreme Weather Conditions
In response to an emergency proclamation issued on August 18, 2020, by Governor Newsom, regarding the fires burning across California, the CDE, ELCD is sending this notice to all ELCD Contracting Agencies.
On August 18, 2020, Governor Newsom declared a statewide emergency to help ensure the availability of critical resources to address the fires occurring across the state.
The CDE, ELCD recognizes the impact to communities caused by the fires and the resulting, often long-term, emergency conditions. Some natural events may have rendered centers, family child care homes, and license-exempt providers unable to offer services, while other events may have increased the number of families experiencing homelessness.
The CDE, ELCD is offering some information that may be helpful in responding to local disasters, as well as for local agency recovery efforts in continuing to serve California’s child care needs.
California Department of Public Health - Cohort Update
Released UPDATED: September 4, 2020 - This guidance applies to groups of children and youth in controlled, supervised, and indoor environments operated by local educational agencies, non profits, or other authorized providers, including, but not limited to, public and private schools; licensed and license-exempt child care settings; organized and supervised care environments, i.e., "distance learning hubs"; recreation programs; before and after school programs; youth groups; and day camps. Guidance and directives related to schools, child care, day camps, youth sports, and institutions of higher education are not superseded by this document and still apply to those specified settings.
Purpose: To provide guidance for necessary in-person child supervision and limited instruction, targeted support services, and facilitation of distance learning in small group environments for a specified subset of children and youth, and for those programs to understand the required health and safety practices needed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in their settings.
Definitions:
Cohort: a cohort is a stable group of no more than 14 children or youth and no more than two supervising adults (or a configuration of no more than 16 individuals total in the cohort) in a supervised environment in which supervising adults and children stay together for all activities (e.g., meals, recreation, etc.), and avoid contact with people outside of their group in the setting.
Supervising adult: an adult assigned to one cohort of children or youth, who does not physically interact with any other cohorts. This includes child care staff, certificated or classified school staff, volunteers, participating parent or caregiver, or other designated supervising adult(s).
Supervised care environment: an environment where multiple children or youth, from multiple families or households, are being supervised simultaneously by an adult. This includes, but is not limited to, licensed child care facilities, licensed exempt child care programs, supervised programs on a school site while a school is not in session or is providing curriculum in a distance-learning format, or where some educational services are being offered to a subgroup of students as identified by a local educational agency on a school campus.
A Pandemic within a Pandemic: How Coronavirus and Systemic Racism Are Harming Infants and Toddlers of Color
Infants and toddlers are experiencing the COVID pandemic during a critical developmental period. Although current information indicates young children are no more likely than adults to contract the virus, they’re still feeling tremendous effects from COVID on their development. Yet their needs have been virtually absent from policy conversations around the virus.
Even before the pandemic, far too many infants and toddlers and their families faced significant adversity during these early critical years due to centuries of policies that excluded and disregarded people of color, many of which still exist today. The alarming disparities in health outcomes and economic stability, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic, are a direct result of systemic racism in policies—a public health crisis in its own right.
This new brief unpacks the impacts of systemic racism on children’s development and describes how the coronavirus pandemic has magnified pervasive inequities in health, education, employment, and other factors across race and ethnicity. The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated long-standing problems with policies across the range of needs for infants, toddlers, and their families. Click here to read more.
Network and CAPPA Joint Annual Conference 2020 Goes Virtual!
There is a lot of interest in this year's Joint Annual Conference, on a virtual platform!
While we will certainly miss being able to come together in-person to share and gain information and to meet and connect with colleagues and workshop presenters, we want to create a conference event that meets as many of our members' needs as possible given the parameters that virtual conferences/workshops have. Now, perhaps more than ever, it is important for our community to stay connected, stand united, and meet this challenge together.
While we won't be able to meet in-person, what we hope to offer in a thoughtful, user-friendly manner, are keynote presentations, workshops, networking opportunities, and connection time with vendors. It will be different this year since we cannot be in the same physical location, but assisted by technology, we can do all that. With no travel and flexibility, we look forward to new opportunities for R&R Network and CAPPA members from across the state, as well as state partners, joining us as we collectively support our children, families and communities.
Virtual Conference Details
Workshops will be both live and on-demand, with some speakers available for live discussion during their scheduled presentation time. The Virtual Exhibit Hall will run the full conference with links to company videos, materials on the platform, and live chat and meeting opportunities. We also will be incorporating some networking opportunities to connect you with your peers. Post conference, workshop sessions will be recorded and available for viewing for 2 weeks post-conference, which will provide additional learning opportunities for conferees following the conference dates. This platform will allow you to have access to more workshops than ever before!
Workshops
A workshop program will be available soon. Here is a sample of some of the over 60 workshops that will be offered this year:
Workshop Strands:
Executives & Managers
Managers
Demanding Racial and Economic Justice/Professional Growth
Working with Parents
Working with Providers
Strengthening Families/Trauma-informed Care
Promoting Self-Care and Resilience
AP Administration
Health and Safety
Building Knowledge in the Child Care Field
Here are just a few of the 60+ Workshop Topics that will be offered:
COVID-19 Strategic Response: Reopen, Adapt and Thrive
Remote Staff Supervision, Communication and Motivation
Team Building...Virtually
The Trauma of Racism and Injustice
Supporting Providers and Parents in the use of Technology
Understanding and Overcoming Work-based Stress in a Virtual World
Remote Recertifications
Supporting Families Through Income, Need and Provider Changes During COVID-19
Supporting Child Care Providers During COVID-19
Visit theConference Web pagefor more information and updates as they become available.
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Our commitment to you is to have scheduled at least once per week a call wherein we can all connect. As questions arise, forward them to CAPPA so that we can address them on these calls. Look for a weekly email to register. Recording and Q&A will also be posted on the Member's Only page.
Best Practices
CAPPA has been working on Best Practices and policies to support you during this challenging time.
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.
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.
