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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. For an overview on the budget process, click here.
Visit CAPPA's Budget Page to view all relative budget items, including the Assembly 2023-24 Budget Action items, the Governor's May Revise, and the Senate 2023-24 Budget Action items.
Click here to see more details from release of the May Revision including Senate and Assembly overviews.
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.
California State Legislature:
COMMITTEE POSITION LETTER DEADLINES - TAKE ACTION!
Lawmakers want to hear from YOU--those in the field--who are the ones affected by the very bills that move through the legislative process.
CAPPA has dedicated a page with the information you need to submit a position letter regarding a bill of interest.
On there, you will find a list of common Assembly and Senate committees that hear bills of interest to the field, with the committee's contact information, rules and position letter deadlines. For a comprehensive list of each committee's information, rules and position letter deadlines, follow this link.
Further, on the CAPPA site, you will find a quick reference guide that will walk you step-by-step on how to submit a position letter using the Legislature's online committee position letter portal.
IMPORTANT DATES, LEGISLATIVE DEADLINES & BILLS
Upcoming dates and legislative deadlines to be aware:
May 30-June 2 - Floor session only
June 2 - Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house
June 15 - Budget bill must be passed by midnight
July 14 - Last day for policy committees to hear and report bills; Summer recess begins upon adjournment
August 14 - Legislature reconvenes from summer recess
Informational Hearings:
None
See below a list of a few child care related bills we are tracking that must be passed out of their respective house of origin before Friday, June 2 (read more about where we are in the legislative process below). Visit CAPPA's legislation page to find a comprehensive list of bills of interest.
Continuing this week, from May 30 through June 2, both the Senate and Assembly will only convene for floor session--no committee can meet for any purpose except Rules committee. However, committees have the ability to have a hearing should they need to hear a bill that may have been amended enough to either change jurisdiction of the bill or expand to include other committee jurisdictions.
Both the Senate and the Assembly need to pass bills introduced in their respective houses by June 2 for the bills to remain active during this legislative cycle; this June 2nd deadline is known as the "house of origin" deadline. Since this is the first year of the two-year session, if a bill does not pass before the house of origin deadline, the bill will be placed in the inactive file either on the Senate or Assembly floor. A bill may be placed in the inactive file for many reasons, but typically it will be placed there during the first year of a two-year session becuase the author does not want the bill to fail and wants more time to work on it. Therefore, the bill still has a chance to move through the legislative process during the next cycle since this is the first year of the two-year session. If you see a bill of interest placed on the inactive file or have questions about any bills, do not hesitate to reach out to CAPPA staff.
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.
Visit CAPPA's dedicated page to find a full list of Senate and Assembly Committee chairs and contact information.
Click here to view all the bills that the Assembly and Senate introduced this legislative year.
Partner Update
Child Care Providers United: Action on the Capitol for Quality Child Care for All
On June 15, 2023 from 8am-2pm come join CAPPA, child care providers, parents ECE advocates, and thousands of others at the State Capitol to support the CCPUin demanding investment in child care and respect for providers!
Child Care Fact of the Week
Question: What is the status of the $1,442 per child one-time stipends approved in 2022?
Answer: The funds have been released to the community based Alternative Payment Programs (APPs) by mid-May. The APPs are in process of getting the $1,442 stipends out to those providers that have completed the ARPA survey. Click here to read more on the stipends and the ARPA survey.
Question: If a licensed provider completed the April survey but currently are not serving children would they still receive the stipends?
Answer: Yes. They are technically still open.
Question: If a licensed exempt provider completed the April survey but currently is not providing care would they still receive a stipend?
Answer: No.
Question: If a licensed exempt provider completed the April survey but they are not permanently closed based on a phone call to the provider can they still receive a stipend?
Answer: No. Since their not serving a child is not due to a public health, financial hardship or a reason related to COVID-19 they are not eligible.
NOTE: Alternative Payment Programs implement payments of the stipends following rules developed by the California Department of Social Services. Concerns with any of the information above should be emailed to CCPB@dss.ca.gov.
Federal Update
Federal Update
National Women's Law Center
Federal Update
This weekend, Congress headed home for Memorial Day without reaching a deal to raise the debt ceiling.
RECAP: Congressional leaders and the Biden Administration continue to negotiate a deal to raise the debt ceiling that will satisfy both sides. Although this vote is typically a joint effort, House Republicans are using this opportunity to prioritize their budget goals for the upcoming years. The negotiations are ongoing, and Speaker McCarthy continues to press for harmful cuts to federal support programs, changes to mandatory programs including SNAP, TANF, and Medicaid; rescinding COVID relief dollars; and repealing Inflation Reduction Act climate provisions. More: Debt ceiling explained: White House, Republicans scramble for deal as default looms | AP News
So far, President Biden and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries have been clear about rejecting proposals that increase poverty and take away food assistance and healthcare. Still, we must keep advocating for the White House and lawmakers to protect funding for programs that benefit women, families, children, and early educators and reject harmful changes. Structural budget changes – caps on spending – are clearly still part of the negotiations, and early childhood programs are disproportionately affected.
*NEW: On May 23rd, the White House released nationwide and state-level data outlining the harms these magnified cuts will have on various communities. Under the Republicans’ plan, 290,000 children from low-income families would lose their Head Start slots, making it harder for them to succeed at school long-term, and 250,000 kids would lose their childcare, potentially forcing their parents out of work or school to care for them.
Federal programs benefitting women, families, and early educators are caught up in this debate. It’s our job as advocates to tell Congress that they have another option. They have the responsibility to avoid a self-imposed economic disaster by paying the country’s debts and lifting the debt ceiling, and investing in, rather than cutting, the programs that women, families, and early educators rely on.
New Database - Find Federal Funding in Your Community
From the Children’s Funding Project:
There are more than 280 federal funding programs across 12 different federal agencies that support cradle-to-career initiatives. Our friends at Children’s Funding Project created a new database to track each of these programs, helping communities find federal funding available to states, tribal areas, counties, cities, towns, school districts, and local nonprofit organizations to support children and youth.
Following the recent release of The State of Preschool 2022 Yearbook, NIEER has released a new equity-focused report examining state-by-state federally funded programs for young children with disabilities. The report focuses on the 2020-2021 school year and trends over the past 15 years dating back to 2005-2006. The report identifies concerning inequities in access to EI and ECSE.
Brief - Impact of Child Care Stabilization Grants on Family Child Care: How Grants Helped Programs and Families, and How the End of Grants Will Hurt Them
From the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC):
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) have partnered on a brief exploring the impact of child care stabilization grants on family child care (FCC) programs and families, as well as the potential consequences of the grants' looming expiration.
To develop this brief, the organizations took a deeper look at the November 2022 early childhood education (ECE) field survey data specifically focused on FCC educators. FCC is a critical component of our nation’s child care and early learning systems, providing opportunities for families to access safe, quality, developmentally-appropriate, and culturally-affirming early childhood education in a home-based environment. A deep dive into the ECE field survey data reveals that the stabilization grants may have had a particularly meaningful and even outsized impact on FCC homes, and on the families who rely on FCC for access to child care and early learning. For example:
Nearly 40% of FCC educators who received the grants said their program “would be closed without that support.”
Only 13% of FCC respondents could say that their program “will be fine” when the stabilization grants end.
When stabilization grants, more than one in three FCC respondents said they will have to raise tuition; cut wages; and reduce benefits to staff.
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Most Sweeping Set of Executive Actions to Improve Care in History
Too many families and individuals struggle to access the affordable, high-quality care they need. The cost of child care is up 26% in the last decade and more than 200 percent over the past 30 years. For the elderly or people with disabilities long-term care costs are up 40% in the past decade. The result is many Americans – particularly women – stay out of the workforce to care for their families, making it hard for businesses to attract and retain a skilled workforce and for the economy to grow. ABCG brief forecasts losses of $290 billion each year in gross domestic product in 2030 and beyond if the U.S. fails to address the lack of affordable child care.
H.Res.57 [117th] Impeaching Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, for abuse of power by enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
H.Res.420 [118th] Impeaching Joseph Robinette Biden, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Save the Date and join your peers for an amazing 2023 Joint Conference! The California Child Care Resource & Referral Network and the California Alternative Payment Program Association are excited to announce that we heard you and we will offer a joint conference in 2023 that has both an in-person and virtual option this Fall!
We are working with the Conference Committee to offer thoughtful, user-friendly options with keynote presentations, workshops, networking opportunities, and connection time with vendors. For those that are ready to connect in-person, we will once again be at the Double Tree Hotel in Sacramento. And for those that are not quite ready for in-person or like the conveniences that come with virtual attendance, we’ll have an option that is similar to the last three years. Regardless of the option that works best for your agency, we look forward to connecting, supporting and partnering with you!
Registration information, along with a preliminary conference program, will be released soon! At that time, online registration will be open, and attendees will be able to select from the in-person conference or the virtual conference. Those that register for the in-person option will also receive access to the virtual conference. Due to the cost of the in-person option, we are limiting the registration to 250. When registration opens, all agencies will have an opportunity to register a limited number of people by a specific deadline. If spaces remain after the deadline they will be made available to interested agencies.
In-Person Conference Details
Date: September 27 – 29, 2023
Time: Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. to Friday at Noon
Location: Double Tree Hotel
2001 Point West Way
Sacramento, CA 95815
Cost: Member Agencies, 3 or more staff – $450
Member Agencies – $475
Non-Member Agencies - $650
Virtual Conference Details
Date: October 4 – 5, 2023
Time: Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. to Thursday at 4:30p.m.
The Whole Child Model, currently implemented in 21 counties, integrates children’s specialty care services provided in the California Children’s Services (CCS) program into Medi-Cal managed care. The Governor proposes trailer bill legislation to expand the Whole Child Model to 15 additional counties...Given the complex policy considerations at hand, we recommend the Legislature act cautiously with this proposal and consider deferring some or all of the proposed expansion as it weighs its long-term policy plans for CCS.
Starting TODAY: 2023-24 CA Budget Social Media Campaign
Starting on TODAY, CAPPA is launching a social media campaign to demand the legislature and the Governor dedicate adequate funds to child care in the 2023-3024 budget!
To empower our partners and members to participate in this campaign, we created a social media toolkit with resources for community partners and ECE advocates to share. This material and more can also be found on CAPPA's website under the "Resources" tab.
Childcare throughout Santa Barbara County escalated from being a quiet crisis before the pandemic to a very loud one since, with childcare opportunities being too few, too expensive, and of dubious quality. To study just how tight the market is countywide — and conjure some potential solutions—the County of Santa Barbara has awarded the United Way of Santa Barbara County $1 million to prepare a comprehensive assessment of what’s available, provide support for businesses seeking to provide or expand childcare options, and draft an emergency action plan.
What would the economy look like if it worked for women?
Last year, Heather McCulloch set out across the country asking women a question that has long been absent from discussions in her field: What would the economy look like if it worked for you?
The findings, first shared exclusively with The 19th, highlight a list of the top challenges women of all backgrounds say are standing in the way of their economic mobility and what they view as the key policy solutions to those barriers.
McCulloch and her research partner, Céline Apollon, sought input from Black women, Latinas, Asian-American and Pacific Islander women, Native American women, transgender women, LGBTQ+ women, women with disabilities and women across the socioeconomic spectrum, from entrepreneurs to service workers. They spoke to people who are often invisible in the policy-making process and literally invisible in much of the data on the economy.
The purpose of this CCB is to inform child care and development contractors of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-24 initial support contract allocations. Please note that award amounts are proposed, and changes based on Budget Act enactment will be communicated in a forthcoming Budget Act amendment CCB. Contracts will be provided on a flow basis as soon as possible. Funding Terms and Conditions are located on the Contractor Resources webpage.
The purpose of this CCB is to inform voucher-based child care and development contractors of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-24 initial contract allocations. Please note that award amounts are proposed, changes based on Budget Act enactment will be communicated in a forthcoming Budget Act amendment CCB. Contracts will be provided on a flow basis as soon as possible. Funding Terms and Conditions are located on the Contractor Resources webpage
The purpose of this CCB is to describe the requirements for the Program Self-Evaluation for Child Care and Development Programs who have contracts with the CDSS. Within the bulletin, guidance is provided on the submission requirements for the Fiscal Year 2022-23 Program Self-Evaluation (PSE) as well as a list of all the required documents to be maintained onsite by contract type. Individual family child care providers are not required to submit a PSE. The requirement is for Contracting agencies only.
Extension of ARPA Survey and AB 179 Stipend Deadlines
ARPA Survey
The deadline for providers to complete the ARPA survey has been extended from June 1, 2023, to August 15, 2023. For more information about the ARPA survey, please refer to Child Care Bulletin (CCB) No. 21-19E, or visit the ARPA survey webpage.
AB 179 Stipends
The deadline for contractors to distribute AB 179 $1,442 per-child stipends to eligible providers has been extended from June 30, 2023, to September 30, 2023. As a reminder, contractors must make every effort to distribute stipends to providers within 45 days of confirming that the ARPA survey has been completed by the provider. For more information about the AB 179 stipends, please refer to CCB No. 23-08 or visit the Stipend webpage.
If you have questions about the information in this message, please contact the Child Care Policy and Development Bureau at (916) 657-2144, or CCPB@dss.ca.gov.
Early childhood educators and service providers fill important roles in their communities: facilitating children’s healthy development and early learning, supporting parents and families, and implementing practices that promote quality, health, and safety. Over the last several years, the early childhood community experienced unprecedented levels of stress—too often while working long hours and without the pay and support they deserve. Many early childhood educators and providers continue to experience heightened stress, burnout, exhaustion, and even depressive symptoms.
Learn more on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at3:00 –4:15 p.m. ET byregistering here.
The purpose of this CCB is to provide specified child care and development contractors with an overview of the provisions in Assembly Bill (AB) 2806 (Chapter 915, Statutes of 2022). Effective January 1, 2023, AB 2806 amends Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) Section 10281 with changes to early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) services. Additionally, effective January 1, 2023, AB 2806 adds WIC Section 10281.2, which allows for Alternative Payment Programs (APP) and agencies administering CalWORKs Stage One, Stage Two (C2AP), and Stage Three (C3AP) to utilize funds for administrative and support services to meet the requirements of WIC Section 10281.
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.
We had a wonderful evening celebrating child care providers in our community and recognizing professional development participants - it takes all types of child care providers to support working families in our community: family, friend and neighbor caregivers, home-based licensed providers, and child care centers.
"Davis Streethas been a key community leader in guiding families out of poverty and into productive lives since 1972. We provide programs and services encompassing: primary care (including medical, dental, pediatric, behavioral health and women’s health services), child care, programs for adults living with developmental disabilities, free food and clothing, housing information, utility assistance and more. Our full range of services is unique from any other local organization."
Get to know them and the full scope of their work with their 2022 Impact Report highlighting how they are supporting the needs of family child care providers and families in Alameda 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.
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!
Implementation Of Assembly Bill (AB) 321 (Chapter 903, Statutes Of 2022): Change In Child Care And Development Priority Order For Children From Families In Which The Primary Home Language Is A Language Other Than English
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