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Question: How much in reimbursement do license-exempt providers receive?
Answer: License-exempt or Family, Friend & Neighbor (FFN) providers receive the Regional Market Rate (RMR) ceiling for that category.
Question: When will a parent that enrolls in CalWORKs begin receiving child care?
Answer: Immediately! Enrollment into CalWORKs Stage 1 means that a parent will receive immediate and consistent child care.
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 2517 (Bonta) - It Takes A Village Act of 2022
AB 2517 will establish a two-year California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services grant program to implement new, and strengthen existing, neighborhood and regional cradle to career (C2C) networks to reduce inequities and increase economic mobility in communities across California through integrated place-based support systems.
Assemblymember Mia Bonta was elected to serve California’s 18th Assembly District in a special election on August 31, 2021. The 18thAssembly District encompasses the East Bay area of Northern California. It includes a large portion of the City of Oakland and the cities of San Leandro and Alameda. Assemblymember Bonta’s priority is to make California a more affordable, inclusive, and equitable home for all.
Mia has spent her career advocating for students and working families. Mia made Alameda her home more than 20 years ago where she has worked for and led several nonprofit organizations focused on improving educational outcomes for low-income students. Prior to being elected to the State Assembly, Mia served as the CEO of Oakland Promise, a cradle-to-college and career preparation initiative across Oakland public schools. In 2018, Mia was elected to the Alameda Unified School District School Board and she served as Board President from 2018-2021.
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.
Legislature on Spring Recess until Monday, April 18th
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.
Keeping Up: Biden says nearly 1.2 million women haven't returned to work because there's no affordable childcare
"For nearly a year, businesses have been complaining that they can't find workers as labor shortages abound, and the labor market gets tighter and tighter.
In a Wednesday speech at the North America's Building Trades Unions Legislative Conference, President Joe Biden discussed where some of those workers might be.
"There are nearly 1.2 million extremely qualified women who haven't returned to the workforce," Biden said. "There's a simple reason: There's no affordable childcare for them."
The reconciliation update is similar to the one in last week’s memo. We are hopeful that the Senate will include the child care and early learning plan as part of an economic package before Memorial Day. It is critical that we keep pressure on the Senate to ensure child care and early learning are included in the economic package currently being crafted. Please see item #9 for ways to take action.
Click here for a resource compilation on the child care and early learning provisions that may be included in the new version of the plan, based on the House-passed Build Back Better Act.
As a reminder, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee releasedupdated text of the House-passed Build Back Better Act. Please see thisresource from the First Five Years Fund to see the line-by-line changes from the House version and their updated FAQs.
Child Care Ad: Parents Are Pleading With Congress to Make Child Care and Early Learning More Affordable, Available, and Accessible for Working Families
Families are facing tough choices with child care because it’s too expensive and often not even possible to find. Families across the country want Congress to take action to solve the child care crisis. Please amplifythis great video featuring parents calling on Congress to #SolveChildCare by making child care more accessible, affordable, and available, and increasing educator wages. Thanks to all the organizations involved, including NWLC, CAP, NAEYC, Community Change, Family Values at Work, Save the Children Action Network, Child Care Aware, FFYF, ZERO TO THREE, The Century Foundation, MomsRising, CLASP, and the Alliance for Early Success.
Rep. Bonamici Leads Call to Expand Access to Affordable Child Care During Week of the Young Child
During the House Education and Labor Committee’s budget hearing with HHS Secretary Becerra Wednesday morning, Congresswoman Boncamici (D-OR-1) highlighted the introductionof this resolution and asked about how Congress can continue to stabilize the care economy. She led 20 of her colleagues in calling for increased federal investments in child care. NWLC endorsed this resolution:
“Access to affordable, high-quality child care is a pillar in the movement for racial and gender equality,” said Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. “But as the pandemic continues to shrink the child care sector and child care becomes increasingly unaffordable for families, this backbone of women’s working lives is too scarce and too expensive—all while the Black, brown, and immigrant workers who provide this care are paid poverty-level wages. We thank Representative Bonamici for this renewed commitment to child care for every working family and urge Congress to make good on this promise.”
Congress, Bring Down Childcare Costs for Families
The Center for Law and Social Policy’s Hannah Matthewsstresses the importance of public funding to lower the costs of care. Matthews points to the positive impact ARPA funds have had on access and affordability of care for families as proof of the kind of impact public funding can have despite being a short-term solution. “They don’t address the longstanding cost burden for American families. They don’t create a sustainable path for raising wages of care workers. And they don’t address the severe gender and racial inequities that are reinforced through our woeful underinvestment. Women of color—who are more likely to be primary earners than their white counterparts—are also more likely to carry a high childcare cost burden. So, too, are women of color disproportionately represented among the underpaid and undervalued childcare workforce.” Matthews calls on Congress to act before it’s too late.
In February 2022, 32% of households with young children reported material hardship (difficulty paying for at least one basic need like (food, housing, utilities, etc.). Up from 25% in January 2022.
The percent of households with young children experiencing hardship goes up among lower-income households (below 200% of FPL)
98% of households that reported hardship also say that costs for everyday items are rising where they live.
One caregiver in Minnesota shared: “I live paycheck by paycheck...so with the increased rate of EVERYTHING somedays I have to choose if I am eating or not so I can provide for my kids.”
If you’re on Twitter, you can find data and updates from the RAPID Survey here.
Trust for Learning’s New Measurement Guide on Quality Early Learning Environments
A new resource from Trust for Learning and their partners — Measuring the Quality of Early Learning Environments: A guide to evaluating ideal learning environments for young children. This resource envisions a new, equity-driven approach for assessing the quality of programs and demonstrates how the Principles of Ideal Learning framework can be used to guide decision-making. This report complements the Trust’s recently released Evidence Brief to show how the foundational elements of high-quality early learning programs can be measured. They hope that this new resource will help policymakers, early childhood leaders, funders, researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers in their efforts to measure what matters
most in early childhood settings.
SEIU Education & Support Fund’s Educator-led Communities of Care Project Initial Report
SEIU Education & Support Fund shares thisinitial report from the Educator-led Communities of Care project (ELCC).
This project started 14 months ago with a design team of educators, staff, and collaborators.
As the Educator-led Communities of Care project continues on, the SEIU Education & Support Fund celebrates all of the home-based family child care educators and the meaningful impact they have on families and communities.
Spanish Translation:
SEIU Education & Support Fund comparte el reporte inicial del proyecto de Educadores Líderes en Comunidades de Cuidado (ELCC).
Este proyecto comenzó hace 14 meses con un equipo de diseño de educadores, personal y colaboradores.
A medida que el proyecto avanze, SEIU Education & Support Fund celebra a todos los educadores de cuidado infantil familiar y el gran impacto que tienen en familias y comunidades.
A Day Without Child Care: A Solidarity Strike and National Day of Action for Childcare in America
On May 9th, Community Change, Childcare Changemakers, and advocates and allies are hostingA Day Without Child Care: A Solidarity Strike and National Day of Action for Childcare in America. Child care providers and families from across the country have been fighting for generations for equitable access to affordable child care and better pay and working conditions for providers.
Demands:
1) Living wages for child care providers
2) An equitable child care system built on racial justice
3) Affordable childcare for all families
This plan has evolved over the last couple of months, as frustration has increased that there is uncertainty whether our federal government will pass necessary legislation for our child care system. Many providers will be striking for the day in various places across the country. Other groups are planning rallies, block parties, or digital events.
They welcome all organizations to join them in solidarity and partnership! There is a link to a google folder below where you can upload your organizational logo, and they will add it to the website.
Click here to find and contact your representative in congress.
CDSS & CDE Information & Updates
Executive Order N-6-22: Child Care and Development Grantees and Contractors
Dear Child Care and Development Grantees and Contractors,
The following message is being sent on behalf of the California Department of General Services.
On March 4, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order (EO) N-6-22 regarding sanctions against Russia and Russian entities and individuals. The EO directs all agencies and departments (Agencies) that are subject to the Governor’s authority to take certain steps described in the EO. Constitutionally independent state entities are encouraged to take these steps as well.
Provider Information Notice 22-12-CCP: Child Care Licensing Webinars
Primary Audience: ALL LICENSED CHILD CARE FACILITIES AND PROVIDERS
Summary:
PIN 22-12-CCP provides guidance and resources during the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic to support Child Care providers.
An electronic copy of the PIN is available for viewing/downloading by clicking on the following link:
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.
Community Action Partnership of Kern (CAPK) and Employment Training Resource are helping businesses impacted by the pandemic. Small businesses with 4 or fewer employees, who were operational in 2019 can receive $2,500.
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.
To help support you going on record supporting or opposing a piece of legislation, you must submit a letter through a portal. Below are links on tips how to communicate your position and then instructions on how to make sure your position is reflected on a bill analysis.
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