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"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing"

January 13, 2025 | Issue #2

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There are no words to convey the shock and sadness that the devastating wildfires have caused to Los Angeles, families, businesses, and children. On behalf of Thriving Families CA (TFC), we want our community-based agencies to know that we are here to support you.

 

The magnitude of these catastrophic fires will require access and support to coordinated resources and communications. It is our commitment to be here to support you in any way that we can.

 

For our LA agencies and the Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles, we are here for you during this crisis and as you take on the rebuilding of your county and communities.

 

In partnership now and forever more.


Dr. Gina Fromer, President of Thriving Families CA


Click here for a compilation of resources that some amazing organizations have compiled to support work being done on the ground now.

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."

Click here for a compilation of resources that some amazing organizations have compiled to support work being done on the ground now.

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.

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!

Thank You to Our Event Sponsors!

Click Here to Register!

California State Budget, Legislature & The Capitol

California Budget Updates



On January 10, Governor Newsom released his proposed 2025-26 budget. Click here to see the summary, and here to watch the presentation.


TFC will be publishing information on the released budget on our website Budget Page. We will also be updating the budget page in real time with updates and new resources. Be sure to reach out to TFC staff with any questions.


Upcoming Budget Hearings:


Communications released related to the CA Budget:

This Friday at 10 AM: California Budget & Policy Center's "Analyzing Governor Newsom's 2025-26 State Budget Proposal"

Click Here to Register

Important Dates, Deadlines,

Hearings, and Bills


Dates & Deadlines:

  • January 24, 2025 - Last day to submit bill requests to the Office of Legislative Counsel.
  • February 21, 2025 - Last day for bills to be introduced.


Recently Introduced Bills to Watch:

The following bills of interest have been introduced. You can follow these bills and more on TFC's State Legislation page on our website.


Child Care and Early Education


Housing/Homelessness


Health/Nutrition


Other


Legislative Resources:

  • See the full 2025-26 Legislative Calendar here.
  • Visit TFC's Legislation Page to find a comprehensive list of bills of interest.
  • Visit TFC's Budget Page for full budget bill details, as well as budget hearing video archive links.
  • Click here to view all the bills that the Assembly and Senate introduced this legislative year.

Legislative Committee Info, Rules, and Position Letter Deadlines


All changes to committee assignments have been reflected on TFC's Committee Information, Rules & Position Letter Deadlines page. This page has been tailored to only include those committees relevant to the field. However, you can find the full, comprehensive and updated list of all committees on this site.


Please reach out to TFC staff if you have any questions.

ICYMI: New California Laws 2025


New year means new statutes take effect! It also means the state minimum wage has increased to $16.50 per hour for all California employers, effective January 1, 2025.


There are several bills chaptered last year that took effect on January 1, 2025. Notable bills taking effect include the following:


Crime: Nearly a dozen bills signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in August are now in effect to crack down on retail theft and property crimes across the state. These new laws include measures to create harsher penalties for retail and property theft convictions (AB 1960 (Rivas)); to make it easier for suspects of retail and vehicle theft to be arrested and prosecuted (AB 1779 (Irwin)); to make the California Highway Patrol organized retail crime task force permanent (AB 1972 (Alanis)); to implement new penalties for thieves who cause damage to businesses (AB 3209 (Berman)); and to crack down on people who sell and exchange stolen goods online (SB 1144 (Skinner)).


Proposition 36, which was overwhelmingly passed by voters last year, went into effect on December 18th, 2024 to fundamentally modify existing law regarding theft, property damage, and drug-related crimes. You can read more about Prop 36's changes here.


Housing/Homelessness

  • SB 1037 (Wiener) - Allows penalties of up to $50,000 per month for any city, county, or local agency that blocks or delays approved housing. Funds will go toward supporting affordable housing.
  • AB 2835 (Gabriel) - Allows cities to use available space in hotels and motels to supplement the number of homeless shelter beds.
  • AB 3093 (Ward) - Creates two new income categories, Acutely Low Income (ALI) and Extremely Low Income (ELI), for purposes of requirements applicable to the housing element.

Health

  • SB 1089 (Smallwood-Cuevas) - Grocery stores and pharmacies must notify their employees and communities that they are closing with a 45-day advance notice.
  • SB 1105 (Padilla) - Allows farmworkers to use sick time to take time off when environmental conditions make their work too hazardous.
  • SB 1061 (Limon) - Medical debt is prohibited from affecting consumer credit scores.

Employee and Consumer Protections

  • SB 1100 (Portantino) - Prevents CA employers from being able to require job applicants to have a driver's license unless the position explicitly requires driving. Also requires employers to evaluate whether alternative transportation methods could reasonably fulfill job duties instead of driving.
  • AB 2011 (Bauer-Kahan) - Makes permanent the family leave mediation pilot program that guarantees eligible employees certain types of job-protected leave, including reproductive loss, affecting small employers with between 5 and 19 employees.
  • AB 2017 (Grayson) - Prevents state-chartered banks from charging overdraft fees for customers who have insufficient funds in their bank accounts.


To see what other bills will take effect in 2025, check out the below articles:

Thriving Families CA, in partnership with DSS Office of Audit Services, will be delivering a virtual training for our field focused on auditing. During the first part of the training, DSS will be presenting an overview of current federal and state fiscal requirements for child development programs, as well as resources related to audit requirements and audit report reviews.


There will also be time set aside for a Q&A session. 


During part 2, there will be a training from an independent auditor on how agencies should be preparing and complying with the different requirements.



We hope you can join us!

Learn More & Register Here

Did You Know?

Child Care Q&A's


NOTE: If you have a question you would like answered or researched, please email.


Question: When must 24-month eligibility for all CalWORKs Stages be implemented by?


Answer: Assembly Bill 1808 (AB) 1808 (Chapter 356, Statues 2024) extends immediate and continuous eligibility from 12 to 24 months for all California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) stages. The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) requires counties and contractors to implement this new law no later than July 1, 2025.


Question: Can a county or contractor implement earlier than July 1, 2025 if ready?


Answer: Counties or APP contractors that have anticipated and planned for January 1, 2025 implementation date may implement sooner for all three CalWORKs stages.       

  • CalWORKs Stage One - For CalWORKs Stage One, if the county is ready to implement 24-month eligibility on January 1, 2025, or on any date before July 1, 2025, CDSS supports the earlier implementation of 24-month eligibility for families. If the county is contracting with an APP, both the county and APP must be in agreement to implement sooner than July 1, 2025, for the earlier implementation of 24-month eligibility to occur. 
  • CalWORKs Stages Two and Three - For CalWORKs Stage 2 and Stage 3, if the APP contractor is ready to implement on January 1, 2025, or any date before July 1, 2025, CDSS supports the earlier implementation of 24-month eligibility for families.  

Federal Update

Click here to read the most recent weekly federal update from the National Women's Law Center.


Federal Government Update

Just before the holiday recess, Congress passed, and President Biden signed, a Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the federal government funded at FY24 levels through March 14, 2025. More on FY25 appropriations in the next section.

 

Thanks to the support of many recipients of this memo, we are thrilled to report that the $500 million in emergency child care funding was included in the CR. We heard directly from Congressional Leadership that our sign-on letter made a real difference in securing this win. More: PRESS RELEASE: NWLC Helps Secure Critical Child Care Funding in Bipartisan Spending Bill - National Women's Law Center

  • $250 million for disaster-affected states: Funds to repair, construct, and improve child care facilities impacted by natural disasters, distributed through CCDBG.
  • $250 million for nationwide improvements: Funds to enhance affordability, access, and quality of child care programs in all states through CCDBG.

 

Thanks as always for your partnership, and we look forward to continuing this momentum for federal child care funding into the 119th Congress.


FY25 Appropriations

As previously reported, the US Senate Appropriations Committee approved their FY25 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) appropriations bills in a bipartisan fashion. More: NWLC Applauds Senate Appropriators’ Bipartisan Vote to Increase Child Care & Early Learning Funding for FY2025 - National Women's Law Center

 

Sustained annual increases to federal investments in ECE are critical to tackling the child care crisis that is holding back families, businesses, and our economy. 

 

In contrast, the partisan House Appropriations Committee’s proposed plan for FY25 funding for LHHS includes a cut of $24.6 billion, or 11%, below the FY24 level. See more: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Summary.pdf (house.gov)

 

As a reminder, FY25 funding bills are due on March 14, 2025. It remains critical that we remind Congress to prioritize investments in ECE programs.


Take Action

Read the Full NWLC Update Here

Most Viewed Bills of the Week:


1.H.R.82 [118th] Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 2.H.R.7909 [118th] Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

3.H.R.5009 [118th] Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025

4.H.R.10545 [118th] American Relief Act, 2025

5.S.596 [117th] Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2021

6.H.R.9223 [118th] Nondebtor Release Prohibition Act of 2024

7.S.4638 [118th] National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 8.S.597 [118th] Social Security Fairness Act

9.H.R.5074 [118th] Kidney PATIENT Act of 2023

10.H.R.7979 [118th] End China’s De Minimis Abuse Act

CDSS & CDE Upcoming Events

Upcoming CCDD Monthly Contractor Meeting


Greetings Child Care and Development Contractors,

The next meeting will be on January 16, 2025, from 10:00 am to 11:00 am. Please use this zoom link to register for the meeting.


January 2025 Agenda:

Topical Updates​

  • New Professional Development

Standing Updates​

  • CDSS- Child Development Management Information System
  • Child Care Resource & Referral Program 
  • Child and Adult Care Food Program 
  • Program Quality and Improvement​ Branch 
  • Funding Opportunities
  • Voluntary Transfer of Funds Process
  • Infrastructure Grant Program 
  • Community Care Licensing 
  • Policy and Guidance

Thank you for your ongoing partnership and dedication to supporting California's children and families.


In Partnership,

Lupe Jaime-Mileham, EdD, Deputy Director

Child Care and Development Division  

California Department of Social Services  

ContractorQuestions@dss.ca.gov

CDSS Bridge Program

The CDSS Bridge Program Team hosted the most recent Bi-Monthly Technical Assistance Call on November 26th, from 3:00 – 4:00. 

Here is the PowerPoint presentation and links shared during the call:

November 2024 Bridge TA Call PowerPoint PDF 

 

Please send any questions, concerns, or suggested meeting topics to the Bridge Program mailbox at ChildCareBridge@dss.ca.gov.

Additionally, the 2025 Bridge TA Calls have been reset in Zoom. Your old registration will still work, but to have Zoom send you the new dates for your calendar, register for the 2025 Bridge Program TA Calls again. The next call is January 28th @ 3:00pm.

TA Call invitations will be coming through our mailing list. Please ensure these emails do not go to your spam folder, and do not unsubscribe yourself from this list.

CDSS & CDE Information & Updates

Community Care Licensing (CCLD) Disaster Response Homepage


CDSS/CCLD has created a resource page for information on the disaster relief.


Learn More Here.

CDE Emergency Disaster Relief Information and Resources Related to Wildfires


Attention: Executive Directors and Program Administrators of California State Preschool Programs, and Other Interested Parties


In response to an emergency proclamation issued on January 7, 2025, by Governor Newsom regarding the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, the California Department of Education (CDE), Early Education Division (EED) is sending this notice to all EED, California State Preschool Program (CSPP) contracting agencies. 


On January 7, 2025, Governor Newsom declared a state of emergency

to help ensure the availability of critical resources to address the fire

related evacuation orders, destruction of and ongoing threats to homes,

structures, critical infrastructure, transportation, communication sites, and

transmission lines. 


In addition to the Palisades Fire, there are multiple other fires

impacting communities in Los Angeles, Ventura, and other counties. 

The CDE, EED recognizes the impact on communities caused by these events and the resulting, often long-term, emergency conditions. Some events may render CSPP contractors, including family childcare home providers serving children and families through a CSPP Family Childcare Home Education Network (FCCHEN), inoperable and therefore unable to provide CSPP services, and may also increase the number of families experiencing homelessness.  


The CDE, EED is providing information that may be helpful in responding to local disasters, as well as for local agency recovery efforts in continuing to serve California’s early education needs. Click here for that information.

Eligibility and Priority FINAL Regulations


Attention All Executive Directors, Program Directors and other interested parties:

This notice is to inform the field that the California State Preschool Program (CSPP) Eligibility and Priority Regulations have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and went into effect on January 6, 2025. The final version of these regulations can be found on the Eligibility and Priority rulemaking web page, located at Eligibility and Priority - Proposed Rulemaking & Regulations (CA Dept of Education). It is important to note that these regulations are only applicable to CSPP.

The Early Education Division (EED) encourages contractors to review the finalized regulations in their entirety prior to submitting any questions related to these regulations. Questions regarding these regulations can be submitted via the Title 5 email inbox (EEDTitle5@cde.ca.gov). All inquiries should be submitted with agency name and region to ensure proper support can be provided for contractors.

CCLD has released a new Provider Information Notice 2024: Chaptered Legislation Affecting Child Care Facilities

 

Primary Audience: ALL CHILD CARE CENTER LICENSEES AND PROVIDERS 

Summary: PIN 25-01-CCP provides a summary and implementation information for legislation chaptered in 2024 affecting child care facilities. Most of the statutes referenced in this document became operative on January 1, 2025, except as otherwise noted.

   

Previous PINs are available at the CCLD website

Recently Posted Manual Letter(s) for Regulations Eligibility and Assistance Standards (EAS) Manual California Department of Social Services


The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) recently posted the following document(s) on its website:

  1. Manual Letter EAS-25-01


All Eligibility and Assistance Standards Manual Letters can be found here.

RELEASED January 7, 2025: Application Now Open for the Count Play Explore Professional Learning and Coaching Cohort


The California Department of Social Services, Child Care and Development Division, would love to share an exciting opportunity with you on behalf of the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, Early Care and Education Department (FCSS).


The FCSS is accepting applications to participate in the Count Play Explore Professional Learning and Coaching Cohort (CPE PLC Cohort).

 

The CPE PLC Cohort is seeking applications from agencies across California including County Offices of Education, School Districts, non-profit organizations, and other organizations that provide technical assistance, training/professional development, coaching, or other capacity-building support for the early care and education (ECE) workforce.

 

Agencies interested in taking part in the CPE Professional Learning and Coaching Cohort are encouraged to apply by January 17, 2025. 


Learn More Here.

RELEASED December 31, 2024: **Reminder** California Department of Social Services Child Development Management Information System (CDSS – CDMIS) CDD-801A & CDD-801B Lock Schedule

Attention: Program Directors, Executive Directors, Software Vendors, Listserv, and Active CDSS – CDMIS Users.

This email serves to inform all CDSS – CDMIS contractors that the July, August, and September 2024 CDD-801A/CDD-801B report months will lock on Tuesday, January 21st, 2025.

***Please note, once a report month is locked, no further changes may be made to the family and child data reported.***


Read More Here.

January 2025 Monday Morning Update Sponsor

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On Our Reading List

More than half a million students were out of school because of LA fires this week | NPR

"More than 600,000 students in and around Los Angeles have had their schooling disrupted by the historic fires this week.


School districts across the region started announcing school closures on Tuesday and Wednesday. That includes the second-largest school district in the nation, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which serves more than 500,000 students...


...Ten-year old Miah Garcia and her mother, Silvia Garcia, walked out with four bags—one for each of Silvia's daughters, who attend LAUSD schools.


"I've lived here 43 years," Silvia said, "and I've never experienced anything like [these fires]." Her family considered evacuating, and had bags packed in case they had to escape. "It's scary to feel like you could lose everything in a blink of an eye."


So far, they and their home have been spared. But with schools closed, Silvia hasn't just had to care for her own children – she's also been helping friends in the community who have to go to work.


"They're struggling right now …and day care is so expensive."


Garcia had to stop working as a medical assistant over a year ago to care for one of her children who has medical needs, so the family has to rely on her husband's income as a house painter. She said these last few days have been difficult, and she appreciates that LAUSD is thinking about the food kids would normally be getting in school.


With campuses shuttered, "It's a whole 'nother two extra meals we have to give them at home," Silvia said."

Read More

Information & Updates

Happening This Week, January 13 - 17, 2025:


Monday, January 13th:


Tuesday, January 14th:

  • CalHR Monthly Forum from 10:00am-12:00pm.
  • TFC Weekly Member Connections Meeting @ 1:00 pm. Email to register.


Thursday, January 16th:


Thriving Families California 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 us 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. 

Quick Links



- Join TFC Today!

-Legislative Information

-Job Announcements

-TFC Website

-Support TFC

January 2025 Featured Agency Highlight

Valley Oak Children's Services

Valley Oak Children’s Services is a dynamic organization focusing on healthy children, families, and a thriving community. We have a wide variety of services developed based on the needs of our community.

Valley Oak Children’s Services was founded in 1980 as a private, non-profit organization, serving children and families in Butte County.

Establishing Agencies like Valley Oak Children’s Services throughout California was an economic support for the community. Child care businesses were beginning to thrive, parents received assistance with finding reliable and safe child care, and businesses could grow because they had a stable workforce.

Funding is provided to Valley Oak Children’s Services to assist low-income parents in paying for child care costs so they could work, go to school or enter a training program that would assist them in becoming self-sufficient.

We offer child care resources, child care payment assistance, free books for literacy, child care Food Program, Early Head Start, Behavioral Health Services, workshops, trainings and more!

We are a strength-based organization focusing on what’s strong not what’s wrong. Our goal is to have children learning, parents earning, and our community growing!

Get to know them and the full scope of their work by reading their Impact Report highlighting how they are supporting the needs of family child care providers and families in Butte County.

Community based public and private Alternative Payment Programs (APPs) support the needs of working moms and dads with access to child care and other supports earmarked to lift families up from poverty. During the pandemic, these programs have distributed emergency essential worker child care vouchers, family child care and center stipends & PPE, diapers, food and clothing. Throughout California, these APPs may also support parental choice to CalWORKs Stages 2 & 3, preschool and center-based programs, general child care, After School Education and Safety (ASES), Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Family Child Care Home Education Networks (FCCHENs), transportation, behavioral & mental health services, respite, regional centers, health and safety, 21st Century, resource libraries, and Trustline.

TFC Member Only Benefits


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TFC Weekly Member Connections via Zoom:

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 TFC 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. 

Job Descriptions and Salary Information

TFC has collected more than 85 job descriptions from member agencies that you can view and use when you create your agency's next job posting!



Visit the Member's Only website to view today!

Best Practices

TFC has been working on Best Practices and policies to support you.



Visit the Member's Only website to view today!

TFC's 2024-25 Board of Directors

PRESIDENT

Gina Fromer, Ph.D.

GLIDE


VICE PRESIDENT

Michelle Graham

Children's Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County 


SECRETARY

LaVera Smith

Supportive Services, Inc. Fresno


TREASURER

Beth Chiaro

Child Care Resource Center


PAST PRESIDENT

Rick Richardson

Child Development Associates


PUBLIC POLICY CO- CHAIR

Teri Sedrick

North Coast Opportunities, Inc.


PUBLIC POLICY CO- CHAIR

Phillip Warner

Children's Council of San Francisco


MEMBERSHIP CHAIR

Jeanne Fridolfs

Napa County Office of Education


MEMBER AT LARGE

Joie Owen

Glenn County Office of Education- Child and Family Services


MEMBER AT LARGE

Karen Marlatt

Valley Oak Children's Services 


MEMBER AT LARGE

Adonai Mack

Child Action, Inc.


MEMBER AT LARGE

Tina Barna 


MEMBER AT LARGE

Jessica Kranz

Go Kids, Inc.


MEMBER AT LARGE

Mike Michelon


Denyne Micheletti Colburn

TFC CEO


The representation of the TFC board spreads across all agency types and sizes, and represents voices from nearly every region in California.

Click Here to see.

DSS & CDE Updates



December 20, 2024

Management Bulletin 24-12:

Guidance on the required family childcare provider data elements to be reported.


December 16, 2024

Management Bulletin 24-11:

Guidance on Cost of Care Plus Rate Allocations and Transitional Payments for the California State Preschool Program


December 13, 2024

Management Bulletin 24-10:

Guidance on Suspension and Expulsion in California State Preschool Program Family Childcare Home Education Networks



December 2, 2024

CCB 24-23: Suspension and Expulsion Policies in Family Child Care Home Education Networks


October 31, 2024

CCB 24-25: Process to Assign Relinquished Funds to Child Care and Development Contractors


October 22, 2024

CCB 24-24: Alternative Payment Program Administrative Supportive Allocation


October 16, 2024

CCB 24-22: California Resource and Referral Programs Monitoring Tool Implementation


October 9, 2024

CCB 24-22: California Resource And Referral Programs Monitoring Tool Implementation


October 3, 2024

CCB 24-21: Guidance on Determining the Eligibility Period for a Child Who is Added During an Existing Eligibility Period and When a Family Voluntarily Disenrolls From Services

Job Openings

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Center Director

Early Development Services, Santa Barbara County


Family Engagement Supervisor

Children's Council San Francisco


-Director of Programs

4Cs Sonoma County 


-Health Specialist

-Sub Teacher-Child Dev

-Associate Teacher-Child Dev

-LPC Coordinator

-Home Base Educator

Colusa County Office of Education


-Program Services Assistant III

-Local Child Care Planning Coordinator

-Teachers - Child Development

Colusa County Office of Education 


-Finance Director

-Center Director at Roosevelt

Davis Street


-Child Care Case Manager & Support Specialist

-Child Care Case Manager

Glenn County Office of Education


Family Advocate

YMCA of San Diego County


Pathways LA- Multiple Job Openings

Nutritional Aid, Child Care Provider Training Coordinator, Child Care Case Worker,

Preschool Associate Teacher, Child Care Professional Dev. Coach and Payment Processor

Of Interest

America’s child care crisis is holding back moms without college degrees


California is rolling out free preschool. That hasn't solved challenges around child care


Preschool? Transitional kindergarten? Is there a difference? Parents are stressing out


Seven Facts About the Economics of Child Care


CHIPS Act Child Care Requirements Already Showing Promise


California lawmakers vote to reduce deficit by $17 billion, but harder choices lie ahead


4 Shocking Stats About Child Care Costs in America

Field Happenings and Resources


Recognizing how our agencies continue to engage and communicate with families and providers.


CocoKids January 2025 Newsletter


Del Norte Child Care Council December Newsletter


4Cs of Alameda Current Newsletter

Upcoming Valley Oak Children's Service Events


4Cs Sonoma Upcoming Events


Connections for Children Upcoming Events



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