"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing" | |
January 13, 2025 | Issue #2 | |
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Governor Newsom signs Executive Order for Child Care
Last Friday, Governor Newsom signed EXECUTIVE ORDER N-3-25 that provides some input and flexibility for:
- Los Angeles & Ventura Counties along with Alternative Payment Programs, Migrant Alternative Payment Programs, CalWORKs Stages 1, 2 and 3 Programs, Emergency Child Care Bridge Programs or Family Child Care Home Education Network Programs may be reimbursed up to 30-days from the date of the declared emergency. This also applied to license-exempt providers.
- Allows Title 5 facilities to use their 15 percent MRA for needed repairs or rebuilding due to the fires.
Governor Newsom signs Executive Order for Rebuilding
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Sunday to waive certain environmental regulations and aid those who want to rebuild homes lost to the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area.
Click here to read full story.
Click here to read EXECUTIVE ORDER N-4-25. - this applies to "projects to repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or facilities substantially damaged or destroyed as a result of this emergency."
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Governor's Budget Holds Status Quo But Lacks Critical Investments
Denyne Colburn, CEO of Thriving Families CA
Overall, we appreciate that the Governor’s proposal maintains a status quo of funding critical services for struggling families and funding of universal school meals. However, we are concerned that there continues to be a push to fund new siloed social programs and expand the “whole child framework” that do not take into account the true needs of working families balancing multiple poverty stressors.
We understand that this proposal was put together before the fires started in Los Angeles. However, those fires again have put a spotlight on the critical need for access of essential workers, children whose schools have been burnt down and those on the frontline of looking at rebuilding homes and businesses to accessible child care. The budget proposal has no new funding for child care, continues to pay family child care businesses at 2018 levels with a token monthly supplement, and further fails to include child care for investment of workforce development funds.
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Register for the Upcoming 6th Annual "Lifting Up Families" Advocacy Day - Happening NEXT WEEK! | |
On January 22, 2025, Thriving Families California will join statewide and community partners, family child care providers, and parents in Sacramento to advocate for raising child care rates, strengthening critical safety net programs and lifting up the needs of whole families.
Attendees will hear from legislative champions committed to strengthening our safety net programs, protecting the progress and honoring the promises of the last legislative sessions, and building up supportive services in 2025-26. California’s lowest income working parents continue in a downward spiral unable to meet the most basic of needs for their children. In order to help families be more successful and break the cycle of poverty, programs that help them secure basic services such as child care, food, housing, and mental health must be resourced.
Click here to register. This advocacy day will be virtual and in-person. Please indicate on the registration whether you will be virtual or interested in attending in-person. In-person location will be Downtown Sacramento, walking distance to the Capitol.
Please reach out to mckenzie@thrivingfamilies-ca.org if you would like to be involved in the planning process and/or add your logo!
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