"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing"
April 10, 2023 | Issue #15
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Submit a Workshop Proposal Today!
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.
To submit a workshop proposal please complete the Workshop Proposal Form.
 
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 17, 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, 3or 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!
Guest Editorial: The Cost of Childcare

It’s about the money. It’s about the economy. In California, child care for one infant could cost nearly 25% of the median family’s income. If you add another child, a family could pay over 40% of their income in child care costs and fees. With child care expenses so high, how does a family provide for other essential needs? Many workers are being forced to exit the labor market and the economy suffers.

As my colleague Senator Monique Limón shared in her CAPPA editorial recently, a new study shows a $122 billion annual national loss of earnings, productivity and revenue due to the child care crisis.

Women, and especially women of color, disproportionately have to leave the workforce because of the cost and unavailability of child care. Our childcare workers, primarily women and especially women of color, have provided services for too long without an increase in reimbursement rates. Our childcare workers have often provided care, knowing that the amount they will receive in compensation is inadequate. The burden and responsibility should never be put on the very workers who give so much in order for parents to remain on the job. If we do nothing, we are contributing to the exit of many in our workforce.

For parents who receive assistance with subsidized child care, they are often left with an unaffordable family fee of up to $600 per month - after they qualified for financial assistance to pay for child care costs.

This issue is about money. It’s about the economy. That is why I have carried legislation and fought, in partnership with advocates, to ensure better access to affordable child care by waiving onerous family fees, but the waivers will end on June 30 of this year. It is also why I authored a bill last year to establish an equitable sliding scale for family fees. The bill received bipartisan and bicameral support in the legislature, but was ultimately vetoed.

This year I introduced AB 596 in partnership with Senator Limón’s SB 380 to continue this fight. Our bills call for a continued waiver of family fees until an equitable sliding fee scale is implemented for them. Additionally, the bills call for an increase in subsidy payment rates for providers, pursuant to the recommendations of the Rate and Quality Workgroup.

By partnering in these efforts, Senator Limón and I know we can make child care in California affordable while also increasing child care worker pay rates. It is clear that we can only accomplish these goals with the dedication of CAPPA and other advocacy organizations that help spread the message. We rely on our partners and advocates to share the importance of the legislation. We rely on you to remind Californians that as the 4th largest economy in the world, we need child care workers to be paid at a rate that will allow them to keep their doors open. We need a fee structure that does not punish the very workers who need more immediate help. AB 596 and SB 380 aim to fix the two biggest problems in child care – adjusting the payment rates for child care workers to bring them to the appropriate level (thus keeping child care workers out of poverty) and waiving family fees until we have a sliding fee scale (thus keeping our families out of poverty).

It's about the money. And we must invest it wisely for the sake of our children. It’s about the economy. And we must ensure we don’t force child care workers and families to exit the workforce. Child care should not be treated like a fringe issue; it has become a crisis that affects most working families. We are California and we must be fully committed to make child care affordable while protecting our child care workers who take care of our children in their formative years when they need it the most.

Let’s invest the money and let’s keep the economy strong – and do it while protecting our children, our families and our workers.
THIS WEEK LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD

On Thursday, April 13, at 9:30 am, the Senate Budget Subcommittee 3 on Health and Human Services's hearing will include child welfare services, and child care and development.

Full hearing agenda is pending, but once the committee finalizes it this week, it will be posted on the Senate Budget Subcommittee #3 site. Keep checking that webpage this week.

Prior to the hearing, CAPPA will support the field with talking point and social media handles and suggested remarks.

To provide remote public comment/testimony, you will be able to call into the hearing. The phone number and access code are:

Phone Number: 877-226-8163 
Access Code: 7362834

Please make sure when you dial in, immediately press 1-0 until you are in queue and assigned a line number. Follow this link for the Senate's teleconference instructions.

For those looking to provide public comment/testimony in person, the hearing will be in the Capitol Swing Space at 1021 O Street, Room 1200, Sacramento, CA 95814.
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.

Upcoming Budget Hearings:


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 respective Senate and Assembly Committee pages to see if they allow for remote testimony.
California State Legislature:
IMPORTANT DATES, DEADLINES & BILLS

Upcoming dates and deadlines to be aware:
  • April 10 - Legislature reconvenes from Spring Recess
  • May 18 - Approps suspense hearing
  • May 30-June 2 - Floor session only
  • June 2 - Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house

Informational Hearings:
None

If you would like to provide input or testify at a hearing, please check on the respective Senate and Assembly Committee pages to see if they allow for remote testimony.

Click here to 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.

Child Care & Early Learning

Health / Nutrition
  • AB 85 (Weber) Social determinants of health: screening and outreach.

Housing/Homelessness
Other

To view all the bills that the Assembly and Senate introduced in the past week, click here.
BILL OF THE WEEK

AB 51 (Bonta) Early childcare and education.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Assemblymember Mia Bonta represents the 18th Assembly District.

She chairs the Budget Subcommittee #5 on Public Safety. You can find a full list of her committee memberships here.

If you would like to contact the Assemblymember's office, you can do so here. To schedule a meeting with the Assemblymember or her staff, submit a request via this link.
Updates From Our Partners
Child Care Fact of the Week

Question: Is there a law that notes the timeframe that family child care providers and centers are to be reimbursed?

Answer: Yes. Contractors must support timely reimbursement to providers within 21 calendar days of the receipt of a complete record or invoice for services.

Background & references:
·        WIC 10267.5
·        5 CCR 18226 – Plan for Provider Payments
·        45 CFR 98.45(l)(1)(ii) – (l) The Lead Agency shall demonstrate in the Plan that it has established payment practices applicable to all CCDF child care providers that:
(1) Ensure timeliness of payment by either:
(i) Paying prospectively prior to the delivery of services; or
(ii) Paying within no more than 21 calendar days of the receipt of a complete invoice for services.
Question: Are the waiver of family fees permanent?

Answer: No. The final 2022-23 Budget Act only extended the waiver of family fees, enacted during the pandemic, until June 30, 2023. Unless there is another extension of family fees included in the 2023-24 Budget Act or legislation is enacted to waive family fees beginning on July 1, 2023, then families will have to begin paying a family fee beginning on July 1, 2023.
Federal Update
Federal Update
 
Congress is at home for their 2-week Easter recess. When Congress returns, they will be busy continuing their work on FY24 appropriations. The recent ECE community letter concluded with 44 national early education advocacy signatories. US House early childhood appropriations letters (found here - thanks, FFYF).
 
TAKE ACTION
 
We have a chance to take action to help working families and children, but our window of opportunity is short. Lawmakers in the Senate are deciding on their funding priorities for FY24, and they need to hear from you!
 
Join us today: urge your Senators to sign this appropriations request letter, currently led by Senator Casey (D-PA) and supported by many of his colleagues. The deadline is April 10th, so it’s important to act now:
 
At NWLC, we’re continuing to educate Senate staff on the need for additional investment in child care and early learning programs through the aforementioned annual appropriations process, especially as states are running out of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds, with some expiring in September of this year. We are also closely tracking the debt ceiling negotiations and potential cuts to federal child care and early learning programs.
 
Please feel welcome to reach out with any questions or opportunities for collaboration as we begin the 118th Congress.
 
Brief - Unionizing Home-Based Providers to Help Address the Child Care Crisis
 
From the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP): 
 
 
Unfortunately, the United States has historically undervalued the child care workforce and failed to foster healthy labor conditions in this industry. In addition to more federal and state investments, strong unions for child care workers are part of the solution.  
 
This brief outlines how collective bargaining policies benefit home-based child care providers, families, and the economy, sharing successes from across the nation. State policymakers, child care advocates, and labor leaders can use these lessons to develop similar collective bargaining rights for these vital workers.

Fact Sheet - Raise the Debt Ceiling, Raise Revenues, and Invest in the Care Economy
 
From the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC):
 
 
In order to pay our nation’s bills, Congress must periodically raise the “debt limit,” or the amount the federal government can borrow to keep the government running. Increasing the debt limit, which is often done in bipartisan fashion without incident or negotiation, is essential to ensure the United States doesn’t default on our obligations and send our economy into a tailspin. Congress must act quickly and without conditions to raise the debt limit before the government’s cash reserves are exhausted. Here’s why:
  • Women and families would bear the brunt if the U.S. defaulted on its financial obligations – or if there were draconian spending cuts or changes to core federal programs.
  • Congress should raise the debt ceiling, and strengthen the economy by raising revenue at the top.
  • Congress should invest in the care economy to support women, LGBTQ+ people, families, and all of us.
 
Congress must not trigger a recession by failing to raise the debt ceiling or imposing deeply harmful spending cuts. If we instead extend the debt limit and make the tax code fairer and more progressive, we can raise revenues to invest in people so that all of us can thrive.

Webinar - NACRHHS Updates: PACE and Childcare Need in Rural Areas
 
From the Rural Health Information Hub (RHI Hub):
 
 
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Time: 11:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Mountain, 1:00pm Central, 2:00pm Eastern
Duration: approximately 90 minutes
 
Members of the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services recently explored two topics of importance to rural areas. The first was the use of the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) in rural areas. The second was childcare need and availability in rural areas. Please join us for a webinar that will highlight the rural context related to these two topics, and a discussion of the policy brief and recommendations submitted to the Secretary of HHS.
 
Additional Resources
 
Take Action - Request an official proclamation from your elected officials to recognize Provider Appreciation Day (PAD)!
 
From Child Care Aware of America:
 
Have two minutes? Want to celebrate child care providers in your community but don't know how?    
 
Use our simple form to request an official proclamation from your elected officials to recognize May 12, 2023, as Provider Appreciation Day (PAD)! By requesting a proclamation, you are encouraging your elected officials to recognize PAD and the tireless support child care providers give to our children and communities. 
 
If you have already submitted a proclamation request to your elected officials and are looking for more ways to celebrate providers, consider hosting a PAD event with your elected officials. Check out our comprehensive PAD Advocacy Toolkit for more information.     
 
With PAD just a few weeks away, join us as we recognize and celebrate the crucial work of child care providers, teachers, and other educators of young children.
 
 
Policy Brief - The Harmful Consequences of Work Requirements and Other Obstacles to Services for Families with Children
 
From First Focus on Children:
I am reaching out to share First Focus on Children’s new policy brief, The Harmful Consequences of Work Requirements and Other Obstacles to Services for Families with Children. 
 
Each year, federal programs provide children with affordable health care, nutritious food, stable housing, and early childhood education. These programs not only lift millions of children out of poverty each year, but also have positive long-term benefits. 
 
At First Focus, we remain gravely concerned about recent Congressional proposals that threaten to weaken programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, or housing assistance by imposing funding cuts, work requirements, unreasonable time limits, and other unnecessary bureaucratic barriers.  
 
This brief details how these actions would undermine access to services for low income families and undercut opportunities for children, often hurting those with the greatest need and creating categories of deservedness of children that negatively impact their well-being and harm their short-term and long-term success. The brief notes that work requirements would also disadvantage children in immigrant families, who may experience difficulties proving work hours.
 
Brief - Lost in the Labyrinth: Helping Parents Navigate Early Care and Education Programs
 
From New America:
 
 
In a new brief, Erica Meade, Sarah Gilliland, and Jessica Weeden explain how persistent fragmentation in ECE programs creates challenges in finding, applying for, and enrolling in services.
 
Working Paper - Place Matters: The Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development
 
From the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University:
 
We are excited to share a new working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child - Place Matters: The Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development. Building on the Center’s growing focus on upstream, systemic factors that shape the conditions in which families are raising young children, the new paper examines how a wide range of conditions in the places where children live, grow, play, and learn can get “under the skin” and affect their development and lifelong health. The paper highlights the role that current and historic public policies have played in creating children’s environments, along with deeply embedded systemic racism, leading to the inequitable distribution of risk and opportunity across communities.
 
With this paper, we aim to join a growing conversation around the power of place in shaping child development. This includes the many ways in which the latest science can help deepen our understanding and - combined with community expertise and fresh thinking across an array of policy domains - can offer promising opportunities for re-shaping the distribution of environmental influences so that all children can grow up in homes and neighborhoods free of hazards and rich with opportunity. Read the full working paper, along with a related infographic and action guide, via the links below. 
 
HHS Launches the First National Early Care and Education Workforce Center

The first-of-its-kind National Early Care and Education Workforce Center is being launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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.

Read more here.

President Biden has long believed that we need to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out, not the top down. Over the past two years, in the face of significant challenges, that economic strategy has produced historic progress for the American people.

Under the President’s leadership, the economy has added more than 12 million jobs—more jobs in two years than any president has created in a four-year term—including 800,000 manufacturing jobs. The unemployment rate has fallen to 3.4 percent, the lowest in 54 years. The Black and Hispanic unemployment rates are near record lows...

Expands Access to Affordable, High-Quality Early Child Care and Learning. Too many families across America cannot access high-quality, affordable child care—preventing parents from working and holding back our entire economy. The President’s Budget enables states to increase child care options for more than 16 million young children and lowers costs so that parents can afford to send their children to high-quality child care. The Budget also funds a Federal-State partnership that provides high-quality, universal, free preschool to support healthy child development and ensure children enter kindergarten ready to succeed.
Most reviewed federal bills this week:
  1. S.686 [118th] RESTRICT Act
  2. H.R.5 [118th] Parents Bill of Rights Act
  3. S.1143 [117th]No TikTok on Government Devices Act
  4. H.R.1 [118th] Lower Energy Costs Act
  5. S.25 [118th] Assault Weapons Ban of 2023
  6. H.R.2617 [117th] Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
  7. H.R.25 [118th] FairTax Act of 2023
  8. H.R.5376 [117th] Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
  9. H.R.1808 [117th] Assault Weapons Ban of 2022
  10. H.J.Res.7 [118th] Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020.
Social Media Spotlight
Field Highlights
Unionizing Home-Based Providers to help Address the Child Care Crisis

As children grow and develop, child care workers play a vital role in fostering learning and providing support in a safe and nurturing environment. High-quality child care jobs, where workers are valued and respected, benefit both workers and the children and families they serve. Child care workers are also essential to the broader economy, as children need to be cared for in a safe place when parents go to work, school, training, or meet other needs. But child care workers cannot provide adequate care if they can’t take time off when they’re sick, must care for too many children at once, or receive such low wages that they can’t feed their own families, among other issues.

Click here to view the full article.

What will it take to build a sustainable early care and education system in the United States?

That was the question I posed to leaders from the field who came together on March 8—coincidentally, International Women's Day — to weigh in on the issue, sharing solutions they're seeing that seem promising, innovative and scalable. The setting for our conversation was a featured panel at the SXSW EDU Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas.

The most obvious answer is federal investment and lots of it — far more than is available in the U.S. today.

Click here to view the full article.
CDSS & CDE Information & Updates
UPCOMING April 14, 2023: Child Care and Development Webinar

The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) will host its next Child Care and Development Quarterly Stakeholder Webinar on Friday, April 14th from 9:00 am to 10:30am. Please register for the event here.

During the webinar, we will be joined by a guest speaker from WestED who will discuss two free courses on implicit bias and trauma-informed care that are available to the child care and development workforce.

Please email us at CCDDStakeholders@dss.ca.gov by April 11th if you need any other accommodations. 
Meeting Announcement: Universal PreKindergarten Quality and Access Workgroup

A meeting of the Universal PreKindergarten (UPK) Quality and Access Workgroup (Workgroup) will take place on April 27, 2023. Workgroup meetings are open to public viewing via Zoom teleconference with opportunities for public comment from non-workgroup members. Please see the detailed agenda at UPK Mixed Delivery Quality and Access Workgroup - Stakeholder Groups (CA Dept of Education) for more information about the items to be considered and acted upon.
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2023
Time: 12:30 p.m.– 4:30 p.m. PST
Virtual Meeting Registration Information
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Translation to Spanish, Mandarin, and American Sign Language (ASL) will be available at each public meeting.

The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) Child Care and Development Division (CCDD) has recently posted the following document on its Internet website: CCB 23-08 IMPLEMENTATION OF ASSEMBLY BILL (AB) 179 (CHAPTER 249, STATUTES OF 2022), ONE-TIME, $1,442 PER-CHILD STIPENDS FOR CHILD CARE PROVIDERS CARING FOR CHILDREN RECEIVING A STATE CHILD CARE SUBSIDY.

The purpose of this Child Care Bulletin is to notify counties and child care and development contractors of the implementation of Provision 8 of Section 146 of Assembly Bill (AB) 179 (Chapter 249, Statutes of 2022), signed by the Governor on September 6, 2022, regarding the distribution of flat-rate, one-time stipends to child care providers in the amount of $1,442 per child enrolled in specified state-subsidized child care and development programs in the month of April 2022. The stipends are meant to help with hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

To read the entire CCB document, click here.

The transition of child care and development programs from the California Department of Education (CDE) to the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) supports the State’s approach to strengthening our child care and development system to be more comprehensive, high-quality, and affordable.

This quarter, CDSS worked to maximize access to child care that is trauma-informed and free of hate, racism, and bias. The Department launched two free online courses on implicit bias and trauma-informed practices. CDSS has also started to plan for the development and governance of the Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS).

Next quarter, the department looks forward to partnering with CCPU to work toward the development of a new MOU and awarding the second round of CCTR expansion funding. CDSS will also submit an official letter requesting pre-approval from the Federal government’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for California to move to an alternative methodology to inform state child care subsidy rates.

To read the full report, click here.
To read the executive summary, click here.
Happening This Week, April 10th-14th:

Monday, April 10th:
-CAPPA Small/Rural Workgroup Meeting @ 2:00pm

Tuesday, April 11th:
-CAPPA Weekly Connections Member Call. Email CAPPA for more information and to register.

Wednesday, April 12th:

Friday, April 14th:
-Child Care and Development Quarterly Stakeholder Update Call from 9:00 am to 10:30 am. Please register for the event 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. 
Come shop for a variety of food on the first Thursday of every month from 1pm-3pm at our Hayward Office Garage. We will have dry goods and staples such as beans, rice, peanut butter, canned fruits, and vegetables available for you to take, as well as nutrition information and meal-planning ideas. Due to safety and limited supply pre-registration is required!
April 2023 Featured Agency Highlight
Solano Family & Children's Services
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.
Solano Family & Children's Services "is proud to share our agency Impact Report for 2022. Our State Legislators and the Governor held true to their commitment to provide additional supports to families and child care providers coming out of the pandemic and working to rebuild their lives and livelihood. By the end of 2022, our agency grew to 79 employees who work every day, committed to our mission, vision, and values that support parents/guardians, their children, and child care providers in Solano County. Our 2022 Impact Report represents the critical services that families, child care providers, and the community need to thrive."

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 Solano County.
CAPPA Member Only Benefits

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CAPPA Weekly Member Connections via Zoom:
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!
Visit the Member's Only website to view today!
Best Practices
CAPPA has been working on Best Practices and policies to support you during this challenging time.
Visit the Member's Only website to view today!
Sample of webinars available on the Member's only website:
HR Webinar on Telecommuting, Best Practices for Program Integrity (Fraud Prevention), Provider Reimbursements, Adults & Trauma, Enrollment

Visit the CAPPA Member's Only website for more information on this webinar series and other benefits available to CAPPA Members.  
CAPPA's 2022-23 Board of Directors
PRESIDENT
Gina Fromer, Ph.D.
Children's Council of San Francisco 

VICE PRESIDENT
Karen Marlatt  
Valley Oak Children's Services 

SECRETARY
LaVera Smith
Supportive Services Fresno

TREASURER
Beth Clear
Child Care Resource Center

PAST PRESIDENT
Rick Richardson
Child Development Associates

PUBLIC POLICY CO- CHAIR
Leslie Reece
Family Resource & Referral Center

PUBLIC POLICY CO- CHAIR
Joie Owen
Glenn County Office of Education- Child and Family Services

MEMBERSHIP CHAIR
Jeanne Fridolfs
Napa County Office of Education

MEMBER AT LARGE
Michelle Graham
Children's Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County 

MEMBER AT LARGE
Kendall Hirai
Crystal Stairs, Inc.

MEMBER AT LARGE
Dr. Ciriaco "Cid" Pinedo
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation 

MEMBER AT LARGE
Tina Barna 
Catalyst Community

MEMBER AT LARGE
Jessica Kranz
Go Kids, Inc.

MEMBER AT LARGE
Mike Michelon

MEMBER AT LARGE
Marco Jimenez
Central Valley Children's Services Network

MEMBER AT LARGE 
Tracey Strack
Child Action, Inc.

Denyne Micheletti Colburn
CAPPA CEO

The representation of the CAPPA board spreads across all agency types and sizes, and represents voices from nearly every region in California 
DSS & CDE Updates

April 3, 2023
Implementation of AB 179, One-Time, Per-Child Stipends for Child Care Providers Caring for Children Receiving a State Child Care Subsidy
March 14, 2023
Allocations To Support Child Care Providers United (CCPU) Provider Deductions
March 14, 2023
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
February 28, 2023
February 8, 2023
Implementation of Senate Bill (SB) 1047 (Chapter 923, Statutes of 2022) – Categorical Eligibility
January 10, 2023
Guidance On Family Child Care Home Liability Coverage Requirements
January 4, 2023
Child Care Providers United (CCPU) Requests For The Deduction Of Dues And Political Contributions From Family Child Care Provider Reimbursements
December 30, 2022
CCB 22-37: Implementation Of The Provision Of Senate Bill (SB) 1047 (Chapter 923, Statutes Of 2022) Pertaining To 24-Month Eligibility
December 16, 2022
Implementation Of Assembly Bill (AB) 210 (Chapter 62, Statutes Of 2022): Removal Of 2:1 Local Match Requirement
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Child Action, Inc. Sacramento 

Colusa County Office of Education

Colusa County Office of Education

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Child Action Inc. Sacramento

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Our Monday Morning Update supports our Early Learning & Child Care field with timely information about what is going on in California and nationally; as well as dates to be aware and upcoming events. 

Our weekly Monday morning distribution is to more than 6,200 federal and state local agencies, resource and referrals, contractors, legislators and their staffs', centers, parents, providers, state departments and advocates. 

To help support the continuation of this resource and or advertise in the Monday Morning Update, click HERE.

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You can also make a donation to CAPPA and CAPPA Children's Foundation HERE.

The Children's Foundation is a non-profit organization (501(c)3), Taxpayer Identification Number is 03-0521444. Your generous donation is tax deductible.