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Question: When will family child care providers receive their supplemental rate payments?
Answer: Starting today, licensed family child care home and license-exempt providers who serve children receiving subsidies will be issued a hard copy and/or direct deposit. Providers should expect these monies 2-3 days after payments are issues. Click here fore more information.
Question: Are Alternative Payment Programs (APPs) to provide a two-week notice to child care providers when there is a change in services?
Answer: No. According to WIC 10233.5 - (a) Commencing July 1, 2020, alternative payment programs shall 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, including, but not limited to, a family’s change in provider. For purposes of this section, the notice shall occur either electronically, if requested by the child care provider, or via the United States Postal Service. The alternative payment program shall provide the notice, as well as the effective date of any change described above, on the same day a notice of action is issued to the family.
California State Legislature:
2022 Legislative Hearings
Below are hearings if scheduled in addition to any deadlines to be aware. If you would like to provide input or testify at a hearing, please check if they allow for call in options. As more legislation is introduced, bills of interest will be profiled and hosted here
AB 1649 was heard on April 6th in the Assembly Appropriations Committee and was put on the suspense file. We are currently awaiting a hearing date. Click below or for more updates and the latest letters and information on AB 1649 find the following on CAPPA's Website:
AB 1649 by Assemblymember Quirk-Silva will provide to each income eligible subsidized family a child care voucher with a specified dollar amount based on the family's maximum certified need and to a child care provider that accepts the voucher a fixed reimbursement for care that they can count on.
If you would like to add on to the coalition letter, please click here to send your logo and your signature in support. If you would like to submit a letter directly to the committee, click here.
Bill of the Week:
AB 1728 – Parents and Healthy Child Development
AB 1728 (R. Rivas) will exempt parents receiving CalWORKs benefits with children three years old or younger from mandatory participation in Welfare-to-Work (WTW) programs.
Assemblymember Robert Rivas has represented California’s 30th Assembly District since 2018. While still in his first term, in the Fall of 2020, he was appointed as Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee and elected as Vice-Chair of the influential Latino Legislative Caucus. A lifelong resident of the district, Rivas served two terms on the San Benito County Board of Supervisors prior to becoming an Assemblymember.
NOTE:If there is a piece of legislation that you would like to highlight, to our distribution list of roughly 7,200 email CAPPA here.
2022 State Budget
To help support you with your scheduling to watch or listen in to budget hearings on child care, click here to go to CAPPA's Budget Page. You will see a number of highlighted CALENDAR LINKS for your to click on and add to your calendar. Agendas for the hearings too will be hosted on the budget page. All 2022-23 budget related documents will be hosted on CAPPA's Budget Page.
For a listing of all upcoming budget with links to calendar details and agendas if available, click here.
Monday April 25, 2022
ASM Budget Sub 1 Health & Human Services @ 2:30 - Open Issues
2022 Elections
With newly drawn districts, and retirements, and an ever changing legislature, there is a lot to keep up with this election year. You can view who is running for each Assembly, Senate, and Congressional seat in California via a crowdsourced tracker HERE.
Report: California’s Subsidized Child Care Providers Are Overdue for Pay Raise
State Payment Rates Are Not Keeping Pace with Rising Costs of Caring for Children, Wages, & Supplies
"California’s subsidized child care providers offer vital early learning and care for families struggling to make ends meet. Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many providers and their staff have risked their health and safety to offer care for children of working parents. These early educators — primarily women and disproportionately women of color — deserve to be paid professional wages for essential work that helps children learn and grow while parents are working to support their families. "
House Budget Committee Report Highlights Importance of Child Care for Women to Return to the Workforce
"The House Committee on the Budget recently released a report discussing the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women’s labor force participation and the need for policies that support their return, including child care. The report reflects on key testimony and findings from the March 16 hearing titled “Ensuring Women Can Thrive in a Post-Pandemic Economy.” The report shows that, despite modest rebounds, women’s labor force participation rates are still well below historical highs, and policies such as high-quality affordable child care will allow more women to return to the workforce and strengthen the overall economy.
According to the report, the COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on the economy as a whole, but women, in particular, have faced undue pressures as they have faced the most job loss and took on the lion’s share of caregiving responsibilities as the supply of child care became even more scarce."
Congress returns from recess this week, and we anticipate that the Senate will turn to negotiations on a budget reconciliation package. We remain hopeful that they will include the child care and early learning plan before Memorial Day as part of an economic package.
In response to the need to keep up momentum on child care and early learning at the federal level, Senator Warren (D-MA), Chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Policy, is holding a hearing entitled, “Child Care and Other Policy Tools to Combat Bottlenecks and Inflation.” The witnesses will be: The Honorable William E. Spriggs, Professor Of Economics, Howard University and Chief Economist, AFL-CIO; Ms. Melissa Colagrosso, Owner and Director, A Place To Grow Children’s Center; Ms. Kathleen Sgamma, President, Western Energy Alliance; Mr. Brian Riedl, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute. You can tune in here on Tuesday, April 26th at 2:30 pm ET.
This report demonstrates how the guiding principles from Sustaining Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care During and After COVID-19: Survey Findingscan be applied using specific examples of state strategies to support and sustain FFN child care and empower FFN providers. While most of the examples involve strategies states adopted during the pandemic, these efforts to expand support for FFN care are important— and feasible—at all times and not just in emergency situations.
National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI)'s Dr. Leah Austin featured in Parenting While Black 2022
The free webinar series, Parenting While Black 2022, offers a safe and welcoming space to hold conversations for and by Black families. All are welcome to join and engage in these powerful conversations! Registerhere.
During this conversation, Black children, families, and communities will be highlighted in how they continue to thrive in the midst of the changing global world. Strategies Black families and communities have utilized to nurture, protect and raise up their children and families to not only survive but thrive will be discussed.
When: Monday, May 2, 2022, 3 PM ET/ 12 PM PT
Each webinar is 1 hour, followed by a NEW 30-minute Q&A session with our parent panelists. All webinars are moderated by Eurnestine Brown, Ph.D., Director of Relational Equity and Belonging at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center.
All webinars have live Spanish translation and closed captioning available.
Child Tax Credit Has a Critical Role in Helping Families Maintain Economic Stability
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a report from Bradley Hardy of the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy explaining the importance of the Child Tax Credit as a critical economic assistance program.
Key findings include:
Economic assistance programs are key to helping provide income stability to individuals and families.
Income instability is common among all families, but is disproportionately felt by Black families, workers with fewer educational credentials, and families headed by unmarried workers.
An expanded, monthly and fully refundable Child Tax Credit would mean greater stability for families, reductions in poverty and hardship, and benefits for children’s educational and health outcomes and long-term earnings potential.
Families with low incomes largely use economic benefits like the Child Tax Credit as a complement to, not a substitute for, earnings from low-wage work.
Different economic and health security programs have different strengths and purposes; strengthening both the Child Tax Credit and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families would help close harmful gaps.
When Your Job Helps the Rest of America Work: Why so many are giving up on child care work and what it will mean for everyone else
This article from Vox covers the importance of work like that of Katherine Lantigua, an in-home child care owner who makes the work of other families possible by providing a safe place for their children. Despite the crucial role caretakers like Lantigua play in the lives of many families, rising costs of living have been staggering for many providers as they’re unable to keep up due to a lack of investments in the sector and stagnant wages. Compounded by the struggles of closures due to the pandemic that places strain on child care workers and families, Lantigua ends, “It’s not fair for the child care providers, it’s not fair for the families,” she said, “and it’s definitely not fair for the children.” The vital work of our partners at All Our Kin is also highlighted in the article.
Equity in Focus: Investing in Childcare Careers
Join the second webinar in a new series co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau and Cornell’s ILR Worker Institute. Equity in Focus: Investing in Childcare Careers will explore the challenges of the child care industry and highlight local examples that are improving access to child care while also raising wages for child care workers.
Child care is an essential need for parents in the workforce. At the same time, women make up the majority of child care workers. While parents struggle to pay for child care services, the child care workers themselves are paid low wages and have little to no access to benefits that improve job quality. How can we reimagine a child care system that meets the needs of families while treating child care workers with dignity? This webinar will explore the challenges of the child care industry and highlight local examples that are improving access to child care while also raising wages for child care workers.
This webinar will take place Tuesday, April 26th, 12:30pm - 2pm ET. Register here.
Upcoming Think Babies Events 5/3 & 5/17
ZERO TO THREE invites all to Think Babiesduring the month of May as their annual State of Babies Yearbook: 2022 which will be released on May 3 at a virtualCongressional briefingon data signaling that it’s “Time for Change.” This resource was designed to bridge the gap between science and policy with national and state-by-state data on the well-being of babies and families in the United States. The Yearbook also underscores the need for, and provides guidance on, creating meaningful and sustainable conditions for all families with young children.
The May 3 virtual briefing will feature ZERO TO THREE Chief Policy Officer Miriam Calderón, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.), and families with young children who will share their experiences – the stories behind the numbers. During this briefing, data on what babies and family experiences across the country mean for policy discussions happening now. Sign up to attend
Following the release of the Yearbook, join ZERO TO THREE for the return of national Strolling Thunder! On May 17, there will be a “crying out for change” as babies from all 50 states and DC (and their families) “talk” with their Members of Congress to push them to Think Babies.
Spread the word! You can retweet ZERO TO THREE here, or use some of sample language:
May is a great month to #ThinkBabies! Join @ZEROTOTHREE for a baby-packed month, starting with #StateofBabies on May 3, all the way to #StrollingThunder on May 17: https://bit.ly/3jOHauV
The first 3 years of a child’s life shape every year that follows – and far too many babies face persistent hardships that can limit their potential. RSVP now to learn more during the release of @ZEROTOTHREE’s #StateofBabies Yearbook: 2022 https://bit.ly/3jOHauV #ThinkBabies
Every baby deserves a strong start in life. Learn about the latest #StateofBabies findings and join the discussion: https://bit.ly/3jOHauV#ThinkBabies
Job Posting - Director of Movement-Building and Field-Level Change (All Our Kin)
All Our Kin is hiring a Director of Movement-Building and Field-Level Change. Please spread the word, especially with anyone you know who is skilled in grassroots organizing, coalition building, and policy change! The job description is available here.
Click here to find and contact your representative in congress.
CDSS & CDE Information & Updates
CCPU Supplemental Rate Payments
Pursuant to the Agreement reached between Child Care Providers United – California (CCPU) and the State of California, which was codified via Assembly Bill (AB) 131 (Chapter 116, Statutes of 2021), signed by the Governor on July 23, 2021, supplemental rate payments for family child care providers (i.e., licensed family child care home and license-exempt providers who serve children receiving subsidies) will be issued Monday, April 22, 2022 by check via U.S. Mail and direct deposit. Providers can expect to receive their payments approximately 2-3 days after payments are issued. The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) is the entity selected by CCPU to issue these payments to providers.
Family child care providers are eligible for a one-time payment in Spring 2022 if they meet the following eligibility criteria:
Licensed family child care home providers who have cared for at least one subsidized child for three months between May and October 2021.
Family, friend, and neighbor (i.e., license-exempt) providers who have cared for at least one subsidized child between August and October 2021.
One-time payments will be issued in the following amounts:
Small licensed family child care provider: $8,000
Large licensed family child care provider: $10,000
License-exempt child care provider: $1,500
In addition to the one-time payments listed above, eligible providers will also receive monthly payments during Fiscal Year 2022-23 (July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023). Amounts for monthly payments in FY 2022-23 will be determined closer to July 2022.
Highlights include speakers from the Child Care Law Center - Mandated Reporting Requirements, Bridge Program/R&R - Trauma Informed Care, and California Department of Public Health - COVID-19 Vaccine for Children
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Save the link to your Outlook calendar for easy access to the webinar!
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Save the link to your Outlook calendar for easy access to the webinar!
Child Care Bulletin (CCB) 22-09: Emergency Closure Request
On April 19, 2022, The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) Child Care and Development Division (CCDD) has recently posted the following document on its Internet website: CCB 22-09: Emergency Closure Request.
The purpose of this CCB is to notify General Child Care and Development (CCTR), Family Child Care Home Education Network (CFCC), Children with Severe Disabilities (CHAN), and Migrant Child Care and Development (CMIG) contractors of the process for submitting an Emergency Closure Request during Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-22.
The CDSS, CCDD announces the availability of approximately $25 million in funding for the CCIP. This one-time funding from the federal ARPA provides funds to Resource and Referral Programs (R&Rs) for the purpose of supporting family child care home providers who have closed due to COVID-19 and would like to reopen. Additional priority will be given to new family child care home providers who serve families of infants and toddlers located in child care deserts. Providers in child care deserts must be funded before additional awards are allocated. These funds will be available from August 1, 2021, to June 30, 2023.
Child Care Program Spring 2022 Quarterly Update
We are pleased to announce that the Spring 2022 Quarterly Updates have been published and are available on our website. Please share this information with anyone that you feel would benefit.
Universal PreKindergarten (UPK) Countywide Planning and Capacity Template
The California Department of Education (CDE) is pleased to announce the release of the Universal PreKindergarten (UPK) Countywide Planning and Capacity Template to support COEs in the development of their UPK plans. The template includes: (1) Planning questions for COE consideration in developing plans for how they will support LEAs in their county to plan and implement UPK in a way that meet community and family needs, and (2) Data that will be required for COE submission to the CDE to meet the requirements of EC Section 8281.5. This plan can be accessed at https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/gs/em/.
CAPPA 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 CAPPA 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.
Let us knowwhat your organization is doing, we would love to feature you in the coming weeks!
Empowering the greater Latino community since 1963. Click Here to see their 2021 Impact Report, highlighting how they are supporting the needs of family child care providers and families in their community.
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.
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.
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