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Happening this week
CAPPA advocates will continue their meetings with legislators. If you want to make sure that your elected official is followed up with or you have specific agency/center related information that you would like presented to either your elected senator or assemblymember, send us an email. To watch any of the Assembly or Senate floor or committee hearings, go to www.calchannel.com
California:
- ASM Floor Session on Monday & Thursday
- Tuesday-Budget Subcommittee No. 2 On Education Finance; Overview of the Governor's 2013-14 Budget: Proposition 98
- Wednesday-Budget Subcommittee No. 1 On Health And Human Services; Affordable Care Act Medi-Cal Expansion
- SEN Floor Session on Monday
- Thursday - SEN Budget & Fiscal Review Committee; Governor's 2012-13 & 2013-14 Budget Proposals -- Proposition 98 and K-12 Education Overview
- Scheduled for this week:
- March 5th from 10:00am-10:30am
CAPPA Member's Only Insights & Advocacy Calls: LAO's Report: Examining the State and County Roles in the Medi-Cal Expansion
Register Here (This is a CAPPA Member Benefit-you must be a CAPPA member to register)
- Upcoming hearings of importance to early care and education:
- March 12, 2013 Joint hearing of the ASM & SEN Human Services Committees on The Real Face of California's Poor: Interpreting the New Federal Poverty Measure
- March 12, 2013 - ASM Budget Subcommittee 2 on Education Finance to discuss Governor's 2013-14 Budget Proposal on Local Funding Formula for Schools (Note: according to Governor's budget proposal, not all schools and districts will receive the same amount of funding per pupil.)
- March 13, 2013 - ASM Budget Subcommittee 1 on Health and Human Services to discuss CalWORKs
- March 20, 2013 (IMPORTANT HEARING!!!) - Joint hearing o the above ASM Budget Subcommittee 1 (Mitchell) on Health and Human Services & ASM Budget Subcommittee 2 (Bonilla) on Education. Focus of the hearing is child care.
- March 21, 2013 (IMPORTANT HEARING) - SEN Budget Subcommittee 2 on Health and Human Services to discuss CalWORKs, CalFresh and State Hearings
- March 21, 2013 SEN Education Committee to discuss Governor's 203-14 Budget Proposals: K-12 Education California Department o Education
Legislation on our radar:
- AB 191 - CalFRESH Categorical Eligibility
- AB 197 - CalWORKs eligibility; asset limits: vehicles
- AB 260 - Individualized county child care subsidy plans
- AB 271 - CalWORKs eligibility
- AB 273 - Child care and development services
- AB 274 - Child care and development services: alternative paymnt programs
- AB 290 - Child day care: childhood nutrition training
- AB 641 - Child Care: Family child care providers: bargaining representatives
- AB 812 - Child care contracts
- AB 1152 - Categorical funding: CalSAFE
- SB 192 - Child care: early learning and school support resources
- SB 223 - Education finance: Maximum cateforical funding flexibility
CAPPA's public policy committee is analyzing the above amongst a much broader list.
Federal
Sequestration - Do we know how our programs will be impacted by enactment of the automatic federal cuts?
In communications with the California Department of Education and our federal partners, unfortunately the impact is still unclear.
According to CDE, "...the piece of th federal grant that may be impacted is he Discretionary post of the Child Care Development Fund. That is about 1/2 of the federal funding."
From our federal partners, the following links are helpful:
On March 19th from 9:00 am - 9:30 am CAPPA Member's Only Insights & Advocacy Calls: Sequestration: How will it impact California? Register Here (This is a CAPPA Member Benefit-you must be a CAPPA member to register)
Worth Reading
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CAPPA, CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION AND SAVE CHILD CARE EVENTS
Save the Date: CAPPA Training- April 16, 2013
Sierra Health Foundation, Sacramento
Topics to include:
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2013 CAPPA and R&R Joint Annual Conference in Sacramento!
 
CAPPA is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the California Resource and Referral Network to deliver our 2013 Annual Conference jointly! See the letter announcing the partnership here.
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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!
The Child Development Webinar Series- ALL NEW FOR 2013! 
The CAPPA Children's Foundation has developed a series of cutting edge trainings for 2013- all for one low price per center or program location. There is no limit to the number of people from your center who can attend the webinar series and be connected without ever leaving your location. This is a fabulous opportunity to train your ENTIRE staff and secure professional credit hours on the most requested child care topics for 2013 at an affordable price in an incredibly convenient format.
The 2010, 2011 & 2012 series are still available for purchase. Please email CAPPA, for more information.
Click Here to see more details and to register for the 2013 Series.
Interested in sponsoring the 2013 Webinar Series? Click here for more information.
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DONATE TO CAPPA AND SAVE CHILD CARE
CAPPA is committed to continuing to advocate against the devastating cuts proposed by Governor Brown, provide support and training opportunities in addition to keeping the field updated on important and timely information via Save Child Care but we need your help.
We are asking for a donation to help us continue this important work- any amount is welcome. Together, we have united and have been successful in getting our message heard that families cannot work and be self sufficient without quality child care. Further, we have been on the front lines fighting to bring recognition of the needs of families, children, providers and the importance of the work that community based agencies and organizations do that serve low-income working families and children every day.
Thank you for considering this opportunity to partner with CAPPA and Save Child Care.
Click Here for the Donation Request Form
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