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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
California:
- NOTE: SENATE & ASSEMBLY IN RECESS FROM MARCH 21 - APRIL 1, 2013
- UPCOMING HEARINGS TO CALENDAR
- April 3, ASM Budget Subcommittee 1 (Mitchell) on Health and Human Services
- Topics: CalFRESH and Department of Social Services
- April 4, SEN Budget Subcommittee 3 (DeSaulnier) on Health and Human Services
- Topic: Medi-Cal streamlining and expansion
- April 11, SEN Budget Subcommittee 3 (DeSaulnier) on Health and Human Services
- Topic: Community Care Licensing
- April 29, ASM Budget Subcommittee 1 (Mitchell) on Health and Human Services
- Topics: Affordable Care Act (ACA) & Medi-Cal expansion
- May 1, ASM Budget Subcommittee 1 (Mitchell) on Health and Human Services
- May 2, SEN Budget Subcommittee 1 (Liu) on Education
- Topics: Child care and preschool
- May 2, SEN Budget Subcommittee 3 (DeSaulnier) on Health and Human Services
- Topic: Medi-Cal expansion and streamlining
- May 7, ASM Budget Subcommittee 2 (Bonilla) on 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 payment 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 categorical funding flexibility
CAPPA's public policy committee is analyzing the above amongst a much broader list.
Noteworthy
At the March 20th joint hearing between ASM Budget Subcommittees 1 & 3, the following actions were approved (if you were unable to watch the hearing live, you can watch an archived version on www.calchannel.com )
* Adopted placeholder Trailer Bill Language to Repeal the Family Fee for State Preschool and direct staff to include funding to backfill the loss of fee revenue to preschool as part of the Assembly's final Proposition 98 package.
* Adopted Supplemental Report Language to require CDE to prepare a plan, by February 1, 2014, to make high-quality preschool available to every single child in California over the next 5 to 10 years. The plan should include various options and recommendations for achieving this implementation plan.
Federal:
"Chairman Ryan's contention that the safety net discourages work is part of an argument that federal assistance programs harm those they are designed to help. However, the safety net's impact on work effort and poverty is well-studied. Leading researchers have conducted a comprehensive review of the available research and data on how safety net programs affect poverty and work, and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has published their results. The research showed that the safety net's overall effects on work are modest and do very little to diminish the safety net's effectiveness in reducing poverty, contrary to arguments made by supporters of the Ryan budget to justify its severe cuts in low-income programs. They found that, even after accounting for the modest overall work effects, the safety net lowers the poverty rate by about 14 percentage points. In other words, the researchers found that one of every seven Americans would be poor without the safety net, but are above the poverty line because of it; that translates into more than 40 million people."
Worth Reading:
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CDE Requests Information on Impact of Family Fees
Change of report submission due date to April 1st 2013.
On August 9, 2012, the CDD issued Management Bulletin 12-12 to all Executive Officers and Program Directors of California State Preschool Programs, requesting information on the number of families and children affected due to the introduction of the family fee to the part-day preschools.
As CDE staff prepare for legislative hearings, it is critical that we obtain accurate data on the full impact of SB 1016 funding reductions.
If you have not yet submitted this information for the second reporting period, which was from November 1, 2012, to February 28, 2013, please do so immediately using the data reporting form provided in MB 12-12. If you did not submit these data because your agency would be reporting all zeros (did not have any affected children or families due to the introduction of family fee for the reporting period), we request you still fill out the reporting form indicating such and submit it.
Please note that the submission due date for the second report has been changed and advanced to April 1st, 2013.
If you have already reported this information to the CDD, thank you.
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CAPPA, Children's Foundation and Save Child Care Events
CAPPA Statewide Meeting-April 16, 2013
Sierra Health Foundation, Sacramento
This event is not to be missed and will be a great opportunity for you to gain a better understanding of these emerging issues!
Kicking off the day, we have staff from the Public Policy Institute of California who will be sharing findings from two of their recently released reports focusing on Realignment of Social Services and Health Care. Following this presentation, we will have a focused and detailed informational on Medi-Cal Expansion, an Overview of the Affordable Care Act and the Vision of The California Health Benefit Exchange. For the afternoon, our expert panel will discuss issues that are on the horizon for our families and children.
Topics of the day to include:
- Findings from the Public Policy Institute's recently released reports on Realignment
of Social Services and Health Care - The Medi-Cal Expansion: What Does It Mean For California's Families
- How do our stakeholder partners weigh in on the realignment for child care with the Medi-Cal expansion
- Vision of the California Health Benefit Exchange
- The Issues That Are On The Horizon For Our Families and Children
Confirmed Presenters Include:
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Ted Lempert, President; Children Now -
Kim Kruckel, Executive Director; Child Care Law Center -
Caroline Danielson, Research Fellow; Public Policy Institute of California -
Shannon McConville, Research Associate; Public Policy Institute of California -
Diane Stanton, Special Consultant for External Affairs; Covered California -
Vanessa Cajina, Legislative Advocate; Western Center on Law and Poverty -
Cathy Senderling-McDonald, Deputy Executive Director; County Welfare Director's Association
Sponsor This Event
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2013 CAPPA and the Network's Joint Annual Conference in Sacramento!  
CAPPA is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the California Resource and Referral Network to deliver a joint 2013 Annual Conference!
- The 2013 Call For Presentations for the joint CAPPA/Network Conference is available 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.
Click Here to see more details and to register for the 2013 Series.
The 2010, 2011 & 2012 series are still available for purchase. Please email CAPPA, for more information.
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Donate to CAPPA, The Children's Foundation and Save Child Care
CAPPA, the Children's Foundation and SAVE CHILD CARE are committed to protecting and supporting working families and children from birth on with child care subsidies and access to California's rich early care and educational opportunities. To provide our earliest learners with the most advantageous outcomes, we must be vigilant in educating legislators that the votes and policies they make today will directly impact the lives of our children for decades to come.
Your generous gifts of support, past and future, are greatly valued as serious investments in furthering the work we do for working families. Please share our vision for a better future for our children, continue to be our partner, and invest in our efforts.
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CAPPA Children's Foundation Mission Statement
The CAPPA Children's Foundation is dedicated to supporting the families and children of California through education, training and research.
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