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| May 8, 2013 - Stand Up For Children!!!!
This is our day for parents and the advocacy community to convene on the State Capitol for a day of meetings with legislators educating them about the importance of our issues.
Please plan to attend. We have much more strength when we are coordinated and our message is focused. "Child care keeps parents working." Click here if you need help setting up meetings.
Parent Voices has put together an agenda to maximize our presence and get our voices heard. Click here to see. Over 700+ are expected to participate. A special recognition must be extended to Mary Ignatius, Parent Voices Statewide Organizer for working around the clock to make this happen.
Community Voices, child care advocacy led by Crystal Stairs, Inc., in Los Angeles has a bus planned to transport parents to Sacramento. If you are interested in participating with this LA effort, fill out this registration form. If you have questions, please email, jguerra@crystalstairs.org or call (323)421-2602.
Happening this week
Legislative hearings on issues of importance to our field are in full swing. CAPPA advocates continue meeting and educating decision makers about fully restoring CalWORKs, general child care funding, streamlining Title 5 and reducing bureaucratic burdens on programs, centers and providers.
Below is a listing of current hearings. To watch any of the Assembly or Senate floor or committee hearings, go to www.calchannel.com
California:
- ASM Floor Session on Monday & Thursday
- ASM Committee Hearings:
- Wednesday, May 8, ASM Appropriations Committee
- AB 241 - Domestic Work Employees
- AB 260 - Individualized county child care subsidy plans
- AB 1152 - (Ammiano) - CalSAFE
- Wednesday May 8, ASM Education Committee
- ACR 45 (Weber) - To restore child care funding
- Wednesday, May 8, ASM Budget Subcommittee No. 1 On Health And Human Services (Mitchell)
- All Departments, Open Issues
- SEN Floor Session on Monday & Thursday
- SEN Committee Hearings:
- Monday, upon adjournment of SEN Floor, a hearing will be convened by the Business and Professions Committee focused on The Jobs and Economic Development Impacts of Promoting Early Childhood Workforce Development Opportunities. (Room 3191)
- Monday, May 6, SEN Appropriations
- SB 134 (Huseo) - CalFRESH eligibility
- SB 192 (Liu) - Child care & early learning
- SB 252 (Liu) - CalWORKs and paid family leave
- SB 766 (Yee) - Ancillary child care centers
- Thursday, May 9, SEN Budget And Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 3 On Health And Human Services (Monning)
UPCOMING HEARINGS TO CALENDAR
- Tuesday, May 14th, ASM Human Services (Stone)
- Identifying the challenges, barriers, necessary protections and benefits to help improve the sharing of foster care data and enhance the outcomes of children in California's child welfare system.
Federal:
Our partner, the Early Care and Education Consortium has put together some talking papers on what the Administration is proposing. Click here to read.
Below is information from our federal partner, Child Care AwareŽ of America:
Within the President's FY2014 budget submitted to Congress last week was a new early learning initiative - a historic opportunity for all young children throughout America!
High Quality Preschool for Every Child: The President proposed a new federal-state partnership to provide all low and middle income 4-year-old children with high quality preschool. The measure is funded by a 94 cent increase in the federal tax on tobacco raising $78 billion over 10 years. The proposal also encourages states to expand to full day kindergarten programs once preschool targets have been met.
Early Head Start/Child Care Partnerships: The President proposed expanding access to high quality early learning settings for children from birth through age 3 through a new competitive grant program run through Early Head Start in partnership with child care. The President has proposed $1.4 billion for FY2014.
Child Care and Development Block Grant: The President has proposed an increase of $500 million in "mandatory" funds for child care (from $2.9 billion this year to $3.4 billion in FY2014). The President has also proposed an increase of $200 million in CCDBG discretionary funds to increase health and safety.
Expanding Home Visiting: The President has proposed an expansion of voluntary home visiting to enable nurses, social workers, and other professionals to connect families to services and educational support that will improve a child's health, development and ability to learn.
Worth Reading:
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CAPPA, Children's Foundation and Save Child Care Events
CAPPA Informational Conference Call:
What's In The Governor's May Revise?
May 17th from 10:00am-11:00am
Please join us for a timely and information-packed conference call to hear the latest insights from policy experts about how the Governor's May Revise will impact early care and education and other programs serving low-income families and children.
California budget experts will be on hand to present input on:
- What specifically is in the Governor's proposed 2013-14 May Revise
- What the May Revise means to early care and education programs
- Specifically, what the May Revise means to general child care
- Specifically, what the May Revise means to CalWORKs child care
- Other proposed changes (May include R&R and quality program funding; and nutrition)
There is no charge for CAPPA members. For non-members, the registration fee is just $99 per location, but there is no limit to the number of staff that can access the call from that location.
Call-In information will be emailed to all participants the day prior to the call. Please be sure to include email addresses for all participants.
Please Click Here to register.
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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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