A new blog by Judy Reidt-Parker outlines how recent the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) rule changes will provide a new opportunity to improve families’ access to child care. Child care remains inaccessible and unaffordable for too many families across the country. Ensuring access to high quality child care is an imperative for parents and children, providers, communities and the economy. Making eligibility determination and application process easier and faster for families, leveraging application guide for best practices in benefits application design and processes and clarifying how states can implement presumptive eligibility are some of the ways to utilize the new rule changes. Read more highlights and considerations for state child care leaders and advocates as they update their CCDF plans: https://lnkd.in/gfW4w8gF
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The Minnesota Department of Human Services is collecting community feedback on the 2025-2027 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Plan, which will be submitted to the federal government on July 1, 2024. The plan describes how the state will use their CCDF funds to improve the health, safety and quality of child care and help families with low incomes access care for their children. Completing this survey will inform decisions about how these federal funds should be used. All survey questions are optional. It begins with four questions that everyone can answer and ends with optional topics (shown below) which contain more focused questions. Child Care Assistance Program Training and professional development for the child care workforce Quality improvement supports for child care programs Consumer education for families Initiatives to build the supply of child care and support the workforce Quality improvement for programs serving school-age children. This survey will close on Wednesday, March 20 at 11pm at which time responses will no longer be able to be collected. Follow this link to the Survey: https://lnkd.in/g3bTkAcU
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I agree with this 100%... affordable and accessible child care is needed for all working families who want it. Federal funding, funding, funding = more child care for those who need it! #childcare #federalfunding #MIworkingfamilies #affordablechildcare #accessiblechildcare
Voters want federal funding for affordable child care! Specifically, voters support investments in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) which helps low-income families afford child care. https://lnkd.in/eJVAUYmS
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Check out The Century Foundation's new Child Care Checklist... We've made a lot of progress on #childcare and still have a lot to do. ARPA funds stabilized the sector, supported families, lowered costs and raised early educator wages. States saw how impactful it was to invest public funding and some increased their child care budgets (thanks to yrs of advocacy&hard work). The Biden Administration's first ever CARE EO set the path for impactful changes, including the new HHS Child Care rule that will lower costs for families and support providers. And now it's time to: **Stabilize the child care sector with $16 billion in emergency funding , and **Build the early learning and child care system America needs.
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As the parent of a child in early education I often think to myself, why is it so hard…. To want teachers to be paid well without having my family break its own budget? To make teachers and parents feel rewarded for investing in their kids, not financially cursed? To positively contribute to the overall well-being of educators without having to hurt my family's own financial well-being? For our society to value the investment in young children by setting BOTH teachers and parents up for economic success? For the #appreciation of our teachers to be embedded as a societal value and not just as a value for a week? Why is it so hard to see change in early education? In the affordability of it? In how we invest in teachers? Why is it so hard? It's stressful, frustrating, and sad. We still have so much work to do within this system to give you-teachers, and us-parents, the economic support to have our children and their village the ability to thrive. I thank you for continuing to champion and serve the minds of our young ones. It’s hard, it’s thankless, and it’s one of the most important things you do for our world. #teacherappreciationweek #earlyeducation #childcare #whyisitsohard
Our country’s fragile, underfunded child care system is falling short of what babies, families, and child care providers need to thrive and our economy needs to stay strong. Robust federal funding is needed to prevent the child care system from collapsing entirely, and to strengthen it so that: 👶🏽 All families have access to high-quality programs where and when they need them 👶🏽 Providers are well compensated for their skills and receive the supports that they need 👶🏽 Babies and toddlers arrive at school ready to learn and prepare for future success See how you can help: https://bit.ly/2ICvwAZ
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MTF’s Chartbook on C3 includes a history of the program and its purpose, an overview of funding history, a breakdown of how the grant formula works for providers, and data showing the program's impact. Make sure to check it out here: https://t.co/6vAC1QzO3P #mapoli #childcare #earlyeducation #publicpolicy
Today's blog: The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation highlights the value of C3 Grants During the early part of the pandemic, the federal government supported child care providers by funding crucial stabilization grants, known, in Massachusetts, as the Commonwealth Cares for Children or C3 grants. Now the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF) has released a new chartbook that looks at the impact of these grants — and how important it is to maintain this support, calling the grants an “engine of systemic change.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/ewEQx5gR
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation highlights the value of C3 Grants
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Guaranteed income programs, which provide families with direct unrestricted cash payments, support the heathy development of young children in families with low incomes. However, participation in these programs may affect families’ eligibility for child care subsidies. Policymakers can help protect child care subsidy benefits for families participating in guaranteed income programs by ensuring cash received from these programs is excluded from income determination. https://lnkd.in/dB56inxk
Protecting Child Care Access for Families With Young Children Participating in Guaranteed Income Programs - Child Trends
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"The final rule requires states to pay CCDBG providers more fairly, which will help stabilize operations for participating providers and encourage more providers to participate in CCDBG. As a result, all home-based and center-based CCDBG providers will start getting paid on-time. Additionally, the final rule ensures that providers are paid based on program enrollment, and encourages states to further increase provider subsidies." Read more about how this impacts the Child Care & Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program, which supports over a million children and their families each month with child care assistance. https://lnkd.in/eKDU9s65
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Lower Child Care Costs for More than 100,000 Families | The White House
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Today, alongside Stephanie Schmit, I had the opportunity to present on inequitable access to child care subsidies at the Child Care Aware of America conference. Federal child care programs are underfunded, pandemic relief funding is expiring, and access to care continues to be a challenge for various communities and localities. As a result of these and many other factors, there is a gap in the number of families who are eligible for federal child care assistance versus the number who actually receive this assistance. In fact, only 18% of eligible families received assistance through the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) in 2020. Our presentation discussed the circumstances that led us to where we are today, along with the national- and state-level data from the Center for Law and Social Policy’s forthcoming report on inequitable access to child care subsidies. We acknowledged that various challenges remain in closing this gap in a resource-constrained system, but that avenues at both the state and federal levels still exist to serve more families in our present system. I was honored to represent CLASP in this important conversation. Our child care system requires extensive transformation to close equity gaps, offer culturally sensitive care, and to support families with low incomes in achieiving economic security. Stay tuned for CLASP’s latest edition of the Inequitable Access report!
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Kansas Children Deserve Better The proposal in House Sub. for SB 96 completely disregards the work done by child care professionals and KDHE. Providers and early learning advocates – not lawmakers – know what regulation changes are needed to meet the needs of providers, children, and parents while keeping everyone safe. Even further, the bill would place the proposed Office of Early Childhood under the Department of Commerce (instead as a stand-alone agency with more autonomy), allow the Legislature to potentially misappropriate the Kansas Endowment for Youth Fund and the Children’s Initiatives Fund, and restrict the way the state can fund child care slots. Ironically, despite bill proponents’ desire to reduce regulatory burden, the bill adds commercial fire code requirements for home-based providers to now match the requirements for school districts. This could result in established home daycares being required to add safety measures like fire sprinkler systems throughout the home. https://lnkd.in/gcrbJ38B
Tell the Kansas House to Vote NO on Dangerous Child Care Deregulation Bill
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I am thrilled to share our new brief focused on protecting child care subsidies for families participating in guaranteed income programs (w/ Emily Maxfield)! Key takeaways- Policymakers can help protect child care subsidy benefits for families participating in guaranteed income programs by: (1) seeking state waivers to safeguard access to child care subsidies for specific guaranteed income programs (2) creating state policy environments, either through state administrative or legislative action, that protect access to child care subsidies (3) updating Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) State Plans to exclude cash received from guaranteed income programs from income determination for child care subsidies (4) updating federal CCDF guidelines regarding income determination for cash received through guaranteed income programs https://lnkd.in/e4g6fh-p
Protecting Child Care Access for Families With Young Children Participating in Guaranteed Income Programs - Child Trends
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