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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.
Every year in January, the Governor presents his budget to the Legislature ahead of the respective fiscal year; however, the Governor can have changes to his proposed budget based on the latest economic forecasts. The revised budget proposal that is released based on these changes is called the Governor's May Revision. It was released on May 12, 2023.
Click hereto watch Governor Newsom's presentation of the May Revision.
Click here to see more details from release of the May Revision including Senate and Assembly overviews.
CHAPTERED - Early Action Budget Bills
The following list of early action budget bills were approved and signed by the Governor on May 15, 2023:
Includes language to extend waiver of family fees for other child care programs from July 1, 2023 though September 30, 2023. This bill would extend the prohibition on the collection of those family fees through September 30, 2023, and would require contractors to reimburse subsidized childcare providers for the full amount of the certificate or voucher without deducting family fees during this extended period.
This bill would authorize the CDE to issue temporary rate increases to contractors and childcare providers that exceed those existing specified rates and the previously described reimbursement rate supplements.
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 29 - Memorial Day
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
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.
On May 18, 2023, the Assembly and the Senate Appropriation Committees dispensed of their suspense file. What is a suspense file? The Suspense File process has been a part of the Committee Rules since the mid-1980s as a way to consider the fiscal impacts to the state of legislation as a whole. The committee analysis indicates whether a bill’s fiscal impacts meet the criteria for referral to the Suspense File. If a bill has an annual cost of $50,000 or more in the Senate, it will be referred to the suspense file; however, in the Assembly, if the bill needs to costs more than $150,000 annually.
Bills that meet the Committee’s Suspense threshold (noted above) will be placed on the Suspense File after testimony is taken at a regular-order hearing. A vote-only Suspense Hearing will be held prior to the deadlines for fiscal committees to hear and report bills to the Senate and Assembly Floor. Bills will either move on to the Senate or Assembly Floor for further consideration or be in held in committee and under submission.
At the Suspense File hearing bills are taken up alphabetically by author. There is no public testimony.
See below a short list of bills of interest that just either passed Appropriations committee or were held. For a comprehensive list of bills of interest, visit CAPPA's State Legislation page. On CAPPA's gislation page, you can also find links to view the results of the Senate and Assembly suspense hearings.
We'd like to congratulate our community partners that are sponsoring some of the above legislation on their hard work on moving these important issues through the legislative process successfully!
Click here to view all the bills that the Assembly and Senate introduced this legislative year.
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 & Take Action
This week, Congressional leaders and the Biden Administration continue to negotiate a deal to raise the debt ceiling that will satisfy both sides. The House Republicans have made it clear that they want to reduce spending before raising the debt limit and settling the nation's outstanding bills. Although this vote is typically a joint effort, the 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 negotiators pushing for weekend deal, but much work remains | 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, but we need to 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.
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 a responsibility to both avoid a self-imposed economic disaster by paying the country’s debts and lifting the debt ceiling, and to invest in, rather than cut, the programs that women, families, and early educators rely on. More:
Post on social media–you can take a picture of the DAP book in action, and use hashtags such as #DAPinECE and #EquityinECE
Please feel welcome to reach out with any questions or opportunities for collaboration.
Brief & Blog - Proposed Budget Cuts Target Programs Women Rely On
From the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC):
We talk about it all the time—we need to do more to invest in women and families.
The wage gap? Still exists.
The wealth gap? Huge and crushing.
Housing wait lists are long, tax credits give too little help to too few, too many people are going without health insurance, and we still don’t have paid family leave or affordable, accessible child care.
All this combined makes women—especially Black, Latinx, and Native women; women with disabilities; immigrant women; and LGBTQ+ individuals—more likely to experience poverty and hardship.
The last thing we need right now? For Congress to slash our budget and make everything for everyone—but especially women—so much worse!
Updated- CCAoA 2022 Child Care Supply, Quality and Affordability Data Available
From Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA):
Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) is excited to announce an update to our series, Catalyzing Growth: Using Data to Change Child Care. We’ve updated the child care supply, quality and affordability information with data from 2022.
You can use our interactive map to view state-level data on the number of child care programs and licensed capacity by program type, CCR&R referrals and quality rating and improvement system participation. The report also features longitudinal data on the number of child care centers and family child care (FCC) homes open from 2019 to 2022. We found some evidence of national child care supply recovery when examining the number of center-based programs open between 2019 and 2022.
The number of licensed child care centers open in 2022 exceeded the number open in 2019.
The number of licensed FCC homes continued to decline in 2022; however, the rate of decline was slower than in prior years.
The Annual Price of Care 2022 features updated information about the price of child care in each state and across the country. Use the interactive map to view child care price and affordability data in each state and state-by-state child care affordability rankings. Analysis found that while the price of child care continued to rise in 2022, it did not increase as much as in previous years. This rise in child care prices from 2021 to 2022 did not outpace inflation as it did in years past; in fact, inflation outpaced child care increases by 7%. This is most likely due to the uncharacteristic increases in inflation in 2022.
The national average price of child care was $10,853, which would take 10% of a married couple with children’s median income and 33% of a single parent with children’s median income to afford.
Report- 3 Ways States Can Expand and Sustain the Infrastructure Workforce by Meeting Child Care Needs
To improve recruitment, training, and retention in the construction industry, states should utilize infrastructure funds to address workers’ child care needs.
Key takeaways
Delivering on infrastructure commitments to communities requires a stable, well-trained, adequately sized, and diverse workforce.
The construction industry has unique features—such as early hours and changing job sites—that make traditional child care for working parents difficult.
Federal funding offers opportunities for states to recruit and retain more workers by supporting them in finding and paying for child care.
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.
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.
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.
We invite you to submit a workshop proposal to this year's Hybrid Joint Conference. Please see the 2023 Call for Presentations Announcement for more information.
Please share the below Call for Presentations links with others you feel could present workshops which would be of benefit to conference attendees.
Workshop proposals are due, Wednesday, May 24, 2023.
2023 Conference
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.
Cost: Member Agencies, 5 or more staff - $285
Member Agencies - $309
Non-Member Agencies - $435
We hope you can join us!
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!
Social Media Spotlight
COMING SOON:
Starting on MAY 30th, CAPPA will be launching a social media campaign to demand the legislature and the Governor dedicate adequate funds to child care in the 2023-3024 budget!
Keep an eye out for a social media toolkit with resources for community partners and ECE advocates to share in our next newsletter and on our website.
The investments in care infrastructure through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) included unprecedented resources to stabilize the child care sector, increase Medicaid payments for home and community-based services (HCBS) provided to disabled people and aging adults, improve care jobs and provide relief to states and localities, including for paid leave and related care needs. These funds were a lifeline across the care economy and made clear what is possible when the federal government comes together with families, states, workers, employers, communities, and other stakeholders to build the care infrastructure we all need.
Passed under the emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic to help families and our economy recover from the COVID-19 recession, these funds were limited by fast implementation timelines, their temporary nature, the challenges of the historic underinvestment across these policies and the policy gaps that often come with legislative compromise. Despite these limitations, care advocates, unions, policymakers, and state administrators worked hard to achieve equitable implementation. This brief, based on conversations with Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund grantees, and a review of recent research, provides an analysis of how equitable the implementation of ARPA programs was, with a focus on what worked well across red, blue and purple states.
It’s hard enough to find child care in this country that is dependable and affordable when working a regular 9 to 5 job. More than 80 percent of American counties are child care deserts where it’s nearly impossible to find a slot, while prices are unaffordable across most of the country.
But what about parents who work shifts outside of daytime hours or on the weekends? There are barely any feasible options for them, and the lack of accessible care often pushes them to cut back at work or give up on better paying jobs.
Ashley (whose name was changed to protect her identity) lives with her three children in Austin, Texas and works at a factory that makes car parts. Her job requires her to start early in the morning and sometimes on the weekends. When she works weekends, she has to ask family members to let her children stay with them, but she can’t set up a reliable arrangement because her hours continually change, so she often has to ask several people before she can find someone who can do it. She drives as much as 40 minutes one way to get her children to a trustworthy family member who’s available, and if they’re late she gets docked attendance points—if she gets too many points she could be disciplined or even fired.
Extension of ARPA Survey and AB 179 Stipend Deadlines
Dear California Child Care and Development Programs and Partners:
The purpose of this message is to communicate the following extensions to previously established deadlines for provider completion of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) survey, as well as distribution of Assembly Bill (AB) 179 Stipends.
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 our 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 our 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.
The California Department of Social Services, Child Care and Development Division (CDSS-CCDD), in partnership with WestEd’s Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC), is providing an upcoming webinar series: Exploring Updates from the 2023 Infant/Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Social-Emotional Growth and Socialization, Third Edition.
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.
FROM EARLY EMPATHY TO ACTS OF KINDNESS. 6:30–7:30 P.M. (PT).
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.
"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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