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Join us as members of the Legislature discuss the impact lack of access to child care is having on our poorest of families, which are largely headed up by single moms and predominantly women of color, resulting in their loss of employment.
Our campaign's ultimate goal is to get a critical mass of signed letters to Assembly Members and Senators so they know that this issue is important to Californians and to raise awareness among Californians about the child care crisis.We will need your help to amplify the campaign, share the video, our new shareable two-minute animated film, which will premiere at the webinar and is housed at our campaign microsite and get letters signed. A recording of the live launch will be hosted on CAPPA's website.We will be following up with a social media toolkit with everything you need: email language to send to your networks, social media posts, links, an email to send to your mailing lists, and more.
2023 State Budget
To help support you staying on top of the 2023-24 budget process and materials connected to the budget, CAPPA is hosting all of the materials in one place.
Click here to access CAPPA's Budget Page. NOTE: CAPPA has created an Excel document to help you track budget actions. Click here.
Follow the above links to find more details about each hearing. If you would like to provide input or testify at a budget hearing, please check on the respectiveSenateand Assembly Committee pages to see if they allow for remote testimony.
If you would like to provide input or testify at a hearing, please check on the respectiveSenateand Assembly Committee pages to see if they allow for remote testimony.
Click hereto find a full list of Senate Committee chairs and assignments. The Assembly Committee chairs and leadership can be found here, and the committee assignments can be viewed using this link.
2023 State Legislation:
See below a short list of bills of interest that have been introduced this legislative year. You can follow these bills and more on CAPPA's on our website. For a comprehensive list of bills of interest, visit CAPPA's State Legislation page.
To view all the bills that the Assembly and Senate introduced in the past week, click here.
BILL OF THE WEEK
SB 628 (Hurtado) State Healthy Food Access Policy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
State Senator Melissa Hurtado, representing the 16th Senate District, is the youngest woman ever elected to the California State Senate. Her Senate District — in California’s great Central Valley — is home to some of the richest and most fertile farmland in the world, one of the top oil-producing counties in the United States and resilient working-class families who power the Valley economy.
Melissa is the first from her family to graduate from college—she attended Sacramento State University, where she received her degree in Political Science. Prior to becoming the youngest woman ever elected to the California State Senate in 2018, Melissa served on the Sanger City Council (2016.)
Follow this link to read Sen. Hurtado's full biography.
If you would like to contact Sen. Hurtado's office, fill out this form, or you can find a list of her staff and their contact information here.
Updates From Our Partners
Recent LAO Publications
California's Legislative Analyst Office has released reports detailing their recent findings on child care, CalWORKs, and Transitional Kindergarten. Click below to read the complete reports.
California’s children and family programs include an array of services to protect children from abuse and neglect and to keep families safely together when possible. This analysis: (1) provides program background; (2) outlines the Governor’s proposed 2023‑24 budget for children and family programs, including child welfare services (CWS) and foster care programs; (3) provides implementation updates on a number of programs that were funded in the current and prior years; and (4) raises questions and issues for the Legislature to consider.
In this brief, the LAO compares the economic and demographic characteristics of the estimated CalWORKs-eligible population to those of the overall population of California, and compares the CalWORKs take-up rates for various demographic and economic groups of eligible families. These findings can inform future policy decisions aimed at increasing participation rates in the CalWORKs program.
This brief provides an overview and analysis of the Governor’s proposals for transitional kindergarten (TK) and State Preschool including: delaying facilities funding and maintaining current TK staffing ratios, several opportunities for savings in state preschool, and more.
This report was presented to the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review as resource with background information on child care and preschool programs administered in California and how they are funded.
HHS Launches the First National Early Care and Education Workforce Center
The National Early Care and Education Workforce Center’s research and technical assistance activities will work together to build a career pipeline for the early care and education workforce, including support for pursuing credentials and degrees while maintaining the sector’s diversity and identifying and implementing sustainable ways to increase workforce compensation and benefits.
The Administration for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a cooperative agreement to establish and operate the National Early Care and Education Workforce Center for the next 5 years to Child Trends, the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, BUILD Initiative, ZERO TO THREE, the University of Massachusetts–Boston, and the University of Delaware.
Question: When a family is eligible to receive a child care subsidy, who is responsible for choosing the provider?
Answer: A parent chooses the family child care provider or center. There is a business relationship between the parent and the provider chosen. The community-based agency that determines eligibility for child care has no direct relationship with the provider chosen solely by the family and/or parent.
Federal Update
Top 5 Actions Governors Can Take To Address the Child Care Shortage
February 23, 2022 - Governors must take the lead in instituting policies that fairly compensate early childhood providers for the skilled work they perform, incentivize the creation of programs in child care deserts, and relieve families of the high cost of care.
Introduction and summary
The United States’ child care industry is in crisis. Families across the country are unable to find high-quality early care and education (ECE) options for their young children, and the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on already strained businesses. Congress failed to pass a historic investment in child care in the 2022 session, and the nation faces a divided House of Representatives and Senate in 2023.
Absent major federal increases to the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), authorized by the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), states must work to address the crisis. Governors can lead the way by engaging in bold action to support young children and their families. This report identifies five steps governors can take to increase states’ supply of affordable, high-quality child care:
Calculating the true cost of care and setting child care subsidy rates accordingly so that these rates reflect the actual cost of child care for providers
Developing wage scales that create parity with K-12 compensation
Creating new financing strategies to address the pending fiscal cliff spurred by the expiration of federal COVID-19 relief funding
Establishing grants and contracts with early childhood providers so that providers are compensated based on enrollment, not attendance
Offering incentives to expand child care options in child care deserts
The scope of the child care crisis
The child care industry is facing a national shortage of ECE providers and programs. During the past two years, 16,000 child care programs across the country closed, and the industry experienced a 9 percent decline in its number of licensed providers. From February 2020 through July 2022, nearly 90,000 providers left the child care industry, and another 2,000 left from August to September 2022. In September, child care employment dropped to 9.7 percent below what it was in February 2020, with 102,400 jobs lost.
From February 2020 through July 2022, nearly 90,000 providers left the child care industry.
H.R.185 [118th] To terminate the requirement imposed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers, and for other purposes.
It’s 5 a.m. and the stars are still bright in the sky. I’ve already been awake for an hour, preparing to welcome the first family dropping their child off.
Over the course of the day, I’ll read books, lead educational activities, watch over nap time and cook three hot meals before the last child gets picked up at 8 p.m.
Then I’ll wake up and do it all over again – seven days a week.
This work isn’t for everyone but I love it. Working communities like mine cannot thrive without child care providers.
Many of us are Black and brown women who exist near poverty, despite the long hours we keep. But this cannot remain the norm. California’s leaders need to eliminate the enduring relics of slavery built into this work which intentionally leaves us behind.
While the national labor force has long since rebounded from the pandemic, the child care sector has lagged behind, experiencing a slow recovery that continues to this day.
In the three years since the arrival of COVID-19, families have struggled to find high-quality, affordable child care for their children. Child care providers have been hard-pressed to find qualified workers to fill their open positions, often because retail and service industry employers have emerged as better-paying competitors. And the early childhood educators who remain in the field have done so despite low wages, rising inflation and high-stress working conditions.
TOMORROW:Contractor Connections: Reminder About Upcoming Training Webinar
This a reminder that the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), Child Care and Development Division (CCDD), will host the training webinar Parent Appeal Process on February 28, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
The webinar is one of the series that the CCDD will host as part of its overall goal of working collaboratively with child care and development contractors to reinforce their understanding of contract requirements, ensure their proficiency in accessing current information about program requirements and staying informed, reduce errors in documenting and certifying families, and support continuous improvement and program integrity. The webinar topics were generated from a recently completed survey of contractors and from findings of past contract monitoring reviews.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the webinar.
General Child Care and Development (CCTR) Fiscal Year (FY) 2022–23 Request for Funding Applications: Now Accepting Second Round of Applications!
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) Child Care and Development Division (CCDD) announces the availability of a second round of General Child Care and Development (CCTR) program funds to provide direct services for eligible children as defined in California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10213.5(i). Funds are available for both Local Educational Agency (LEA) and non-LEA applicants to provide full-day/full-year services on or after April 1, 2023.
Please refer to the information within the CCTR FY 2022–23 Web page for additional information on how to apply.
Please note that applications for this second opportunity must be received 11:59 pm on March 30, 2023. Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted.
If you have any questions regarding the information in this message, please contact us via email at CCTRRFA@cdss.ca.gov or by phone at 916-639-7944.
The purpose of this Child Care Bulletin is to announce the launch of the MyChildCarePlan.org consumer education website, and to remind Child Care Resource & Referral (R&R) contractors of responsibilities related to the provision of R&R services.
The purpose of this Child Care Bulletin is to provide guidance and information to specified child care and development contractors regarding implementation of the provision in Senate Bill (SB) 1047 (Chapter 923, Statutes of 2022) related to categorical eligibility for child care and development services. Effective immediately, SB 1047 amended Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) Section 10271 to extend eligibility for child care and development services to families in which a member of the family has been certified as eligible to receive benefits from certain means-tested government programs.
Happening This Week, February 13th- February 17th:
Tuesday, February 28th:
-CAPPA Weekly Connections Member Call. Email CAPPA for more information and to register.
-California Department of Social Services (CDSS), Child Care and Development Division (CCDD), will host the training webinar Parent Appeal Process on February 28, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Register Here.
Wednesday, March 1st:
-Office of Head Start (OHS) Webcast: Workforce Wednesday Webinar - New Federal Opportunities to Bolster the Early Childhood Workforce- 10am-11:15am. Join Here. Passcode: 211164
-CAPPA Public Policy Meeting- 2pm
Thursday, March 2nd:
-Coalition on Human Needs Federal Connection Meeting @ 12pm. Join Here.
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.
Go Kids, Inc. was established in 1975 when it was awarded a grant from the City of Morgan Hill to provide early childhood education services and training opportunities for low-income women in Santa Clara County. Since its incorporation in 1978, the agency budget and service area have continued to grow, providing comprehensive child-development and family support services in Santa Clara, San Benito, Monterey, and Santa Cruz counties.
Get to know them and the full scope of their work with thisAnnual Report, highlighting how they are supporting the needs of family child care providers and families in Santa Clara, San Benito, Monterey, and Santa Cruz counties.
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.
Job Descriptions and Salary Information
CAPPA 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!
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