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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:
- ASM Floor Session on Monday & Thursday
- Tuesday, April 2nd- Human Services. The hearing will begin at 1:30pm.
- Topics: CalFresh. CalWORKs Eligibility, Individualized county child care subsidy plans.
- Wednesday, April 3rd-ASM Budget Subcommittee 1 (Mitchell) on Health and Human Service
- Topics: CalFRESH and Department of Social Service
- SEN Floor Session on Monday & Thursday
- Thursday, April 4th-SEN Budget Subcommittee 3 (DeSaulnier) on Health and Human Services
- Topic: Medi-Cal streamlining and expansion
UPCOMING HEARINGS TO CALENDAR
- 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
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Subcommittees 1 & 3, the following actions were approved (if you were unable to watch the hearing live, you can watch an archived version on www.calchannel.com )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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Child Care & Development State Plan
The federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is an aggregate of several funding sources that is distributed in block grants by the federal government to the states and territories. The majority of the funds are to be used to provide child care services to families who meet certain income and need criteria. A portion of the funding (at least 4 percent of the block grant amount) is to be used for activities to improve the quality of child care. Another portion (not to exceed 5 percent of the block grant amount) is to be used to pay for costs of administering the CCDF.
The purpose of the CCDF is to increase the availability, affordability, and quality of child care services. Every two years, states and territories receiving CCDF funds must prepare and submit to the federal government a plan detailing how these funds will be allocated and expended.
Federal Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015
Public Hearing for Draft State Plan April 22, 2013
Draft CCDF State Plan FFY 2014 and 2015 (DOC) -Updated Version March 28, 2013
CAPPA will be preparing comments for the April 22nd public comment hearing. If you would like to include comments for consideration, email denyne@cappaonline.com .
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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
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Kim Kruckel, Executive Director; Child Care Law Center
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Caroline Danielson, Research Fellow; Public Policy Institute of California
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Shannon McConville, Research Associate; Public Policy Institute of California
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Diane Stanton, Special Consultant for External Affairs; Covered California
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Vanessa Cajina, Legislative Advocate; Western Center on Law and Poverty
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Cathy Senderling-McDonald, Deputy Executive Director; County Welfare Director's Association
Sponsor This Event
Thank You to Our Event Sponsors:
  
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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.
Interested in sponsoring the 2013 Webinar Series? Click here 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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