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FROM: FAMILY AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE Costa
County
7 C=am
DATE: October 27, 1997
SUBJECT: REPORT ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF WELFARE REFORM
ON CHILD CARE PROGRAMS
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . DIRECT the Social Service Director to design an institutional infrastructure
within the Social Service Department where suggestions for changes to
welfare reform, identified problems, and ideas for improving the system can
be centralized within the Department and coordinated with the County's
lobbyist, the California State Association of Counties (CSAC), the County
Welfare Directors' Association (CWDA) and the Urban Counties Caucus.
2. REQUEST the Social Service Director to consider the feasibility of designing
a system for tracking TANF recipients through their five-year federal time limit
on aid so that the County can determine what happens to clients after they
leave aid and evaluate what does and does not work in helping people to
become self-supporting.
BACKGROUND:
On October 27, 1997, our Committee met with the Social Service Director, John
Cullen, members of the Child Care Task Force and the Community Services
Director, Scott Tandy. Mr. Cullen presented the attached report to our Committee
and reviewed it with us.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMIT EE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
MARK E)eSAUI=N'ER DGNNA GER
ACTION OF BOARD ON Novembo 4, 1997 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED__ _November 4, 1997
Contact: County Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
cc: Social Service Director SUPERV RS AND CO N Y�ADMINISTRATOR
Community Services Director 4
Child Care Task Force (Via Dean Lucas)
Executive Director, Contra Costa Child Care Council
BY ,DEPUTY
F&HS-02
Mr. Cullen explained the three-stage child care system which has been created
under California's welfare reform legislation (AB 1542, Chapter 270, Statutes of
1997) and identified the number of children currently receiving aid. He also identified
the amount of money the department has available to provide child care for all
eligible TANF recipients effective January 1 , 1998. It is not yet clear whether the
available funds will be sufficient to meet the need for child care. This will probably
only become clear after TANF is implemented.
In response to a question from Supervisor Gerber about how the allocations of funds
were determined, Mr. Cullen indicated that they were generally based on prior
allocations. There certainly has not been, a real, objective needs assessment
conducted by the State to determine the need for child care in the County and upon
which the funds are allocated.
Mr. Cullen noted that clients can be deferred from participating in employment and
training programs if adequate support services like child care, transportation, and
drug treatment are not available. However, even if a client is deferred, the client's
lifetime Federal eligibility for TANF of five years does not change. Supervisor
Gerber suggested that if there is insufficient child care available, mothers with infants
might be allowed to stay home. Mr. Cullen noted that some funds can be moved
between stages of the child care program in order to better meet the needs of TANF
recipients. However, doing this would take resources away from other groups like
the working poor (stage 3).
Mr. Cullen emphasized that there are many issues having to do with child care and
welfare reform that remain to be decided.
Supervisor DeSaulnier asked how the County can keep track of problems with-
welfare reform which are identified and suggestions that may come to the attention
of Board members so they can be examined and included, as appropriate, in the
inevitable clean-up legislation which will be needed in 1998. Our Committee is
asking Mr. Cullen to provide some central place within the Department where such
problems and suggestions can be reported and appropriate action taken.
Supervisor DeSaulnier also suggested that it would be helpful to have some way of
tracking clients through the system to see what elements of welfare reform work and
which do not. Mr. Cullen responded that there is no separate source of money
available for this purpose and that such tracking and evaluation would have to be
done at the expense of other TANF services. Our Committee feels that it is
important to get private funding or some other source to establish a tracking system
so that the Board will be in a position to know what works and what needs to be
changed. We are asking Mr. Cullen to at least give some further attention to this
need.
Our Committee is going to keep this subject matter on referral and will report back
to the Board as events warrant further reports.
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'CONTRA COSTA COUNTY Social Service Department C ,J?/
DATE: October 27, 1997
TO: Board of Supervisors Family & Human Services Committee
FROM: John Cullen, Directorj" �,_>
SUBJECT: Report on Child Care Implications for Welfare Reform
The Social Service Department has identified approximately 10,646 children under the age of
five years and 12,576 children between the ages of five and ten years that currently receive
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and whose parents will be subject to
Ca1WORKs Welfare-to-Work activities. We do not know that some of these children belong to
families in which one or both parents are disabled and will be exempt from Welfare-to-Work
activities. In addition, 1,808 of these child are under the age of one year, so the parent could
be exempted from Welfare-to-Work activities. Currently, approximately 15-25% of these
children receive child care under existing Social Service Department programs. Many of these
are also receiving services through child care programs outside of the Social Service
Department.
The State of California has proposed a three-stage system for child care under the CalWORKs
program. Ste I child care encompasses all children whose parents are just entering Welfare-to-
Work activities and are in situations where the parent is not yet in a stable, daily activity. Stle,
II child care encompasses all children whose parents are in regular training/education programs,
working while receiving aid, or working when aid has been terminated within the past two years.
Stage III child care encompasses all children whose parents have no connection to welfare aid
programs or are no longer receiving welfare.
Stage I child care is funded through the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) money
paid to the county Social Service Department.
• For Stage I, CDSS has allocated a net amount for child care payments of$2,615,472
to the Social Service Department for the period from 1/1/98, when CalWORKS begins,
through 6/30/98.
Stages II and III are funded through a combination of Alternative Payment Providers, including
the county Social Service Department, receiving money through the California Department of
Education (CDE).
• The funding for Stage H, covering the period from 1/1/98 through 6/30/98, includes
six months of the money originally allocated to the Social Service Department for
programs currently in existence that will end 12/31/97. This money, $1,469,826
TO: Board of Supervisors Family & Human Services Committee
SUBJ: Report on Child Care Implications for Welfare Reform
(includes administrative funds), has been reallocated to all Alternative Payment
Providers serving Contra Costa County CalWORKs recipients for the Stage II
program, 1/1/98 - 6/30/98.
• For Stage III, each Alternative Payment Provider has already been given a full fiscal
year allocation, 7/1/97 - 6/30/98. The share of this money allocated by CDE to the
Social Service Department for direct child care payments is $1,827,460. Other
Alternative Payment Providers, including the Contra Costa Child Care Council and
PACE, has received their own allocations for the year. However, as with most Stage
III money, this funding is already encumbered by existing families receiving child care
payments under CDE programs.
The amounts projected for Stages I, II and III, reflect an approximate increase in child care
monies to Contra Costa County of 37% over existing programs.
Within the written CalWORKs plan, there are many details that must be covered. These include
decisions on who is eligible to which programs, how recipients will flow from one stage of child
care to the next, when to retain child care in the Social Service Department and when to refer
CalWORKs recipients outside of the department. We must also determine how payments will
be made directly to providers and the transitions for recipients of current programs into the new
three-stage child care system.
As we prepare for CalWORKs, the Social Service Department is developing a Child Care
Component within the County Plan. We have assembled a work group comprised of
representatives of the Child Care Council, the Child Care Task Force, and staff of the county's
own Head Start and Child Development programs, to help design the system.
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SEC. 11. Article 15.5 (commencing with Section 8350) is added
to Chapter 2 of Part 6 of the Education Code, to read:
"Article 15,5. Child Care for Recipients of the Ca1WORKs
Program
8350. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article
to ensure that recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with
Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code,or any successor program,and former recipients who have left
aid for employment, are connected as soon as.possible to local child
care resources, make stable child care.arrangements, and continue
to receive subsidized child careservices after they no longer receive
aid as long as they.require those services and meet the eligibility
requirements set forth in Sections 8263 and 8263.1.
(b) This article establishes three stages of child care services
through which a recipient of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with
Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, or any successor program, will pass. Further, as families' child
care needs are met by county welfare departments and later by other
local child care and development contractors, it is the intent of the
Legislature that families experience no break in their child care .
services due to a transition between the three stages of child care
? services. fib .
8351.1 (a). The county welfare department shall manage the first
stage during which a family shall receive a child care subsidy for any
legal care.chosen by the parent. The first stage begins upon the entry '
{ of a person into the program prescribed by Chapter 2.(commencing a
with Section 11200) of Part 3 ..of Division 9 of the. Welfare and '
Institutions Code. A county shall move recipients out of this first Y
response stage as quickly as possible after the county determines that .
the need for child care is stable. A recipient may be served in this
stage for a maximum of six months. The six-month time limit may be
extended if the county determines that the recipient's situation is too
unstable to.be shifted to.the second stage.or if no funds are'available
to provide child care services in the second stage.
(b) A county may contract with public or private child care
providers to provide any or.all of the services during the first stage.
If the county welfare department elects to.contract with any child
care provider that is also under contract with the State Department
of Education, these contracts shall be consistent with state.law.
8352.` As.soon as appropriate, a county welfare.department shall
1 refer families needing child-care services to the local child care
resource and referral program' funded pursuant to Article 2
r (commencing with Section 8210). Resource and referral program
staff shall colocate with a county. welfare department's case .
' management offices for aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with .
a ;
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Section
-20—Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions # (d) This article
Code, or any successorprogram, or arrange other means of swift from operating an
communication with parents and case managers of this aid.The local the State Departrr.
child care resource and referral program shall assist families to protective service
establish stable child care arrangements as soon as possible. These 8355. Child ca
child care arrangements may include licensed and license-exempt moneys dedicates
care. . Chapter 2 (comm
8353. The second stage begins when the county determines that of the Welfare ar
the recipient's work or, approved work activity is stable or when a including the fed.
recipient is transitioning off of aid and child care is available through program contracts
a local stage two program. The local stage two agency shall assist in t Section,28 proses:
moving families to stage three as quickly as feasible. No family may prevent child care
continue to receive child care in stage two beyond two years after it funded with mone
is no longer eligible for aid. The second stage shall be administered this article shall pre
by agencies contracting with the State Department of Education. f Chapter:2 (comm(
These contractors may be either agencies that have an alternative. of the Welfare and
a ment contract pursuant to Section 8220.1 or count . welfare receiving child ca_-
P Y P Y
departments that choose to administer this stage in order to continue chapter.
to provide child care services for recipients or former recipients of 8356. It is the in
aid.If the county chooses to contract with the department to provide of Education work
alternative payment services, this contract shall not displace, or generate extended-
result,in the reduction of an existing contract of,a current-alternative Chapter 2 (comme
payment program. of the Welfare ane
8354. ' (a) The third stage begins when a funded space is available through recruiting
for CalWORKs recipients, persons who .received a lump-sum license-exempt cai
diversion payment, and former Ca1WORKs participants who are between Head Star
regularly employed at a wage that does not exceed 75 percent of the certificate administ
state median income. The third stage shall be administered by payment programs,
programs contracting with the State Department of Education. and 8354 cover the
Parents' eligibility for child care and development services will be 8356.1. Itis the ii
governed by Section 8263 and regulations adopted by the State funding for child ca:
Department of Education: equivalent to the ar
(b) In order to move welfare recipients and former recipients year for income disr(
from their relationship with county welfare departments to and Institutions Co
relationships with institutions providing services_to working families, Section.11451.7 of tb
it is the intent of the Legislature that families that are former ` 8357. (a) The c(
recipients of aid, or are transitioning off aid, receive their child care article shall be gover,
assistance in the same fashion as other low-income working families.: care services provid
Therefore, it is the intent of the.Legislature that families no longer choose the child care
rely on county welfare departments to obtain child care subsidies care providers who a
beyond the time they are receiving other services from the welfare cost of that child care
department. contract with the Stal
(c) A county welfare department shall not administer the third the regional market
stage of child.care for CalWORKs recipients except to the extent to market rate. means.c
which it delivered those.services to families receiving, or withip one deviations above.the
year of having.received, Aid to Families with Dependent-Children (b) Reimbursemei
prior to the enactment of this section: fee charged to private
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is
(d) This article does not preclude county welfare departments
ft from operating an alternative payment program under contract with
al the State Department of Education to serve families referred by child
Co protective services.
ie 8355. Child care during the third stage may be funded with
:)t moneys dedicated to current and former recipients of aid under
Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9
at of .the Welfare and Institutions Code, or any successor program,
a including the federal funds appropriated to alternative payment
�Ih program contractors in the 1996-97 fiscal year using the Budget Act's
in Section 28 process as described .in subdivision (b). Nothing shall.
ay prevent child care services provided under stage three from being
it funded with moneys.from other federal or state sources. Nothing in
�d this article shall preclude current and former recipients of aid under
in. Chapter.2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9
ve N of the Welfare and Institutions Code, or any successor program,from
r' receiving child care services pursuant to other provisions of this
re �
ue chapter.
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of 8356. It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Department k";
de . R of Education work with Head Start and state preschool programs to
or generate extended-day and evening care for recipients of aid under *..
ve _ Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200_ ) of Part 3 of Division 9 a
of the Welfare and Institutions Code, or any successor program,
)le :, through recruiting and training parents to be licensed and
zm t' license-exempt care providers and shall facilitate connections .
ire V between Head Start and state preschool contractors and child care
-,he C' certificate administrators, including counties and.other alternative :
a ment programs, so that funds available for Sections 8351 8353
by �. . P Y P g � � �
and 8354 cover the cost of this care.
beon. f> 8356.1. It is the intent of the Legislature that each.count receive
be g• Y
funding for child care services provided in stage two that is at least
ate <Y, equivalent to the amount of funding received in the 1996-97 fiscal ;
nts year for income disregard pursuant to Section 11451.6 of the Welfare ,
to ;, and Institutions Code and supplemental child care pursuant to ;
ies Section 11451.7 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
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8357. (a) The cost of child care services provided under, this
are article shall be governed by regional market rates.Recipients of child '
ies. care services provided pursuant to this article shall be allowed.to
ger choose the child care services of licensed child care providers or child
ties care providers who are, by law, not required to be licensed,and the
'are cost of that child care shall be reimbursed by counties or agencies that
contract with the State Department of Education if the cost is within
iird the regional market rate. For purposes of this section, "regional .
t to market rate" means care costing no more than 1.5 market standard
one deviations above.the mean cost of care for that region.
ren ' (b) Reimbursement to child care providers.shall not exceed the
fee charged to private clients for the same service.
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(c)
22 —(c) Reimbursement shall not be made for child care services when" E the local planni
care is provided by parents, legal guardians, or members of the usage and deme
assistance unit. of Education a
(d) A child care provider located on an Indian reservation or forward this da
rancheria and exempted from state licensing requirements shall Joint Legislativf
meet applicable tribal standards. (b) By Janua
(e) For purposes of this section, "reimbursement"means a direct present to the r,
payment to the provider of child care services. However, to allow f of the cost of
time for the development of the administrative systems necessary to described in sul
issue direct payments to providers, for a period not to exceed six 8354.
months from the effective date of this article,a county may reimburse 1 8359.1. (a) I
the cost of child care services through a direct payment to a recipient article to provid(
of aid rather than to the child care provider. annual Budget A
(f)' Counties and alternative payment-_ programs shall not be t for all individu
bound by the rate limits described in subdivision (a) when there are, participate. in tl
in the region, no more than twochild care providers of the type work.
needed by the recipient of child care services provided under this 1 (b) It is the
article. development coi
8358. (a) By January 31, 1998, the State Department of section be allowe�
Education and the State Department of Social Services shall design. (c) Funding f
a form for license-exempt childcare providers to use,for certifying appropriated in t
health and safety requirements to the extent required by federal law. SEC. 12. Secti
Until the form is adopted, the information required pursuant to 8481. (a) .Sub
Section 11324 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall continue to the purpose of tl
be maintained.by the county welfare. department,or contractor, as Public Instructio:
appropriate., f school-based scho(
(b) By January 31, 1998, the State Department of Education and ` homework and t
.the State Department of Social Services shall do all of the following: provide recreation
(1) Design a standard process for complaints by parents about the welfare to work b
provision of child care -that is exempt from licensure. potential employi
(2) Design, in consultation with local planning councils;.a single children enrolled :
application for all child care programs and allfamilies. (b) A before ar,
(3) Present recommendations to the. Legislature on ways to or school district
consolidate.state and federal child care programs. governmental agE
(c) County welfare departments and alternative payment Education for fun(
programs shall encourage all providers who,are licensed or who are program that re(
exempt from licensure and who are providing care under Section participate in any
8151, 8153, or 8155, to secure training and education in basic child technology activitit
development. (c) In'order to a
(d) The State Department of Education.shall increase consumer providing parents`
education and consumer awareness activities"so that parents will a safe environmev
have the information needed to seek child care of high quality.High neighborhoods; a
quality,child. care shall\include both licensed and, license-exempt collaborative effort
care. collaboration with
8359. (a) County welfare departments and alternative payment districts, commu�
programs shall provide to the State Department of Education or the community-based c
State Department of Social Services, whichever is appropriate, and local agency that p:
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the local planning council, on a quarterly basis, data about child care
he usage and demand in each of the three stages.The State Department
of Education and the State Department of Social Services shall
or. forward this data quarterly to the Department of Finance and the
.all Joint Legislative Budget Committee for fiscal planning.
(b) By January 10 of each year, the Department of Finance shall
act present to the respective legislative budget committees an estimate
DW of the cost of funding the expected demand for child care as
,to described in subdivision (a) of Section 8351 and Sections 8353 and
six 8354.
rse 8359.1. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this
ant article to provide sufficient funding through an appropriation in the
r,. annual Budget Act to fund the estimated cost of providing child care
be for all individuals who are anticipated to need child care to 4 .
tre, participate. in the welfare-to-work programs and to transition to
,pe work.
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this (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that child .care and V
. development contracts in existence on -the effective date of this
of k` section be allowed to continue until the end of the 1997-98 fiscal year.
i s (c) Funding for. purposes of implementing this article shall be
in appropriated in the annual Budget Act. ,
g SEC. 12. Section 8481 is added to the.Education Code, to read:
aw.
to 8481. (a) .Subject to appropriation in the annual Budget Act, for.
to the purpose of the program in this article; the Superintendent of ;
as Public Instruction may allocate funds for the establishment of
school-based schoolage before and after school programs that include
and homework and tutoring assistance, improve literacy skills, and }
Wig: provide recreational activities,as well as facilitate the transition from
the welfare to work by.providing child care for schoolage children and
potential 'employment for, welfare recipients who.are parents of
e
t lchildren enrolled in schoolage child care programs.
g (b) A before and after school program, whether public, private,
to or school district operated, in collaboration with other local
governmental agencies, may apply to the State Department of r
ent Education for funding under this article. A before and after school
are , program that receives funding pursuant to this article. may
pion Participate, in any other grant programs that fund literacy and.
gild- .
technology activities.
(c) In order to achieve the goals of assisting children in learning,
ner Providing parents with employment and parenting skills, providing
Will a safe environment. for children, and helping prevent crime in
[igh ` neighborhoods, a program funded under this 'article shall be a
npt 7 collaborative effort with a school district, and may also include
collaboration with any combination of the 'following: other school
dent ' : districts, community college districts; counties; . cities,
the community-based organizations, not-for.profit organizations, the
and local agency that provides the Even Start Family and Head Start
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literacy programs or their equivalent programs, and the, private
sector. (2)
(d) In selecting .programs for funding under this article, the childr
2 (coy
department shall use the standards set forth in Section 8463 and all Welfa
of the following criteria: either
(1) Programs shall have demonstrated experience in
implementing. ,quality before or after-school child development intent
receiv
programs. of Par
(2) Programs shall demonstrate the inclusion of a strong literacy
succe,�
component. these
1 (3) Programs shall demonstrate a working collaboration with
entities listed in subdivision (d) including Even Start Family and (3)
Head Start literacy, program providers, to the extent that these with c.
a trim
n'+ programs exist in the service area. before
(e)_ Notwithstanding Section 8468, in allocating funds pursuant to shall_
this article, preference shall be given to programs that currently
i ) employ recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section
11200) of Part"3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to sub}
�. ' ! or any successor.program,who are parents of children enrolled in the recipif
of Ch
applicant programs or that have a demonstrated commitment to Code,a
providing employni opportunities for those recipients of aid; or memo
both.
requir,
(f) Funding received by a before `and after school program (B)
pursuant to this article may be renewed and is contingent upon the. article
following:
(1) Compliance with the requirement of. subdivision -.(d), the ratio rc
criteria'set forth in subdivision e , and the priori
set forth in (5)
'1 subdivision (f). O P operat
Y
A favorable evaluation completed-by the State Department of be one
EducationP ursuant to Section 8498.8 or an evaluation that meets the chi'ld
re
standards of the department. Seetior
(3) Programs shall demonstrate that they are receiving locally
generated resources from other than federal and state sources,which Institut
i i 1 pl
may include in-kind contributions. not 1beE
(g) (1) A program established under this section may employ skills, a.
parents of schoolage children who are participating in the program
established pursuant to Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320) how" t
I of Chapter 2 of Part'3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions speakir.
i Code, or any successor program,>and may.employthose parents in Even St
I the schools attended by their own' children. Parents employed
j't I iprograr
pursuant to this subdivision may also participate in training programs (�)
at least six hours per week, in order to. help them understand child
funding
development,learn parenting skills,and,obtain skills for employment
!1 ;; in either an educational or child care etting. Employment in the of the c
program may fulfill a participant's employment.requirements under of the
Article 32 (commencing with Section 11320) of Chapter-2 of Part 3
' I of Division 9 of the Welfare:and Institutions Code: hrougl
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id the private (2) A program shall also be encouraged to hire older siblings of
children in the program whose families receive .aid under Chapter
,-xis article, the 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the
on 8463 and all Welfare and Institutions Code, or any successor program,.to work in
either the program's literacy or recreation components. It is the
:xperience in intent of this subdivision that hiring teenagers from families that
I development receive aid under this Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200)
of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,"or any
strong literacy successor program; will provide an,additional source of income for .
these families.
�aboration with (3) All program participants shall be assessed before they work
:art Family and with children to determine their skills and literacy development and
tent that these a criminal background check on each participant shall be completed
before that participant begins to work with children. Participants
Inds pursuant to shall'be supervised by qualified staff.
that currently
(4) (A) Notwithstanding any other.provision of law, but.subject
ing with Section to subparagraph (B), programs operating under this article that use
stitutions Code, recipients of aid under Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320)
n enrolled in the aY of Chapter 2*of Part 3 of.Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions
commitment to Code, or any successor program, may count those recipients as staff
l
pients of aid; or members for purposes of determining'compliance with staffing ratio
requirements.
School. program (B) Teenage siblings used by programs operating under this
ingent upon the article may not be included in computing compliance with staffing
n ratio requirements.
ivision (d), the (5) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, programs
ties set forth in operating under this section may.extend their Hours .of operation
f beyond 20 hours per week.
Department of (h) A program established pursuant to this section shall assist the
n that meets the children of recipients of aid under Article 3.2 (commencing with
Section 11320) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of Division'9.of the Welfare and
eceiving locally Institutions Code, or any successor.program; and other children to
e sources,which complete homework, improve literacy skills, that shall include, but
not be limited to, reading, writing, mathematical, and computer
on may employ skills,and participate in recreational activities.
in the program (i) Programs funded under this section.shall provide training on
h Section 11320) how to `work with children'.on reading, writing, listening, and
and Institutions f} speaking. This training shall be provided in collaboration with an
those;parents in Even Start Family or Head Start literacy program,or their equivalent
rents employed programs.
aining programs (j) (1) Notwithstanding Sections 8468 and 8473, priority for
inderstand child ::F funding shall be given to schoolsites where a minimum of 70 percent
for employment of the children are-eligible for, or are recipients of, either aid under
3loyment in the Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3:of Division 9
zirements under of the Welfare and Institutions Code or.free or reduced-cost meals
apter 2 of Part.3 through the school lunch,program:
f
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(2)
26—(2) Priority for enrollment in programs funded under this section
shall be given in accordance with Section 8468.5. r
.(k) Programs.funded under this section shall be encouraged to
take advantage of free snack programs administered by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
J.
(Z) It is the intent of this article, by providing a safe, supervised
after-school environment for children, including those teens
employed by a program; to reduce criminal activity among juveniles,
and to strengthen parent-child relationships and communities by ,
"i involving parents in their children's schoolwork and schools.
(m) Notwithstanding Section 8360.1 or any other provision of law,
college courses in recreation, art, mathematics, and physical and
ii social development that would enhance the education of schoolage
children maybe considered to meet course requirements in child
development.
SEC. 13. Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 8499) is added
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to Part 6 of the Education Code, to read:
i;�•� i,� CHAPTER 2.3. LOCAL PLANNING COUN ILS
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Article 1. Definitions
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8499. For purposes of this chapter, the f owing definitions shall
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-apply:
(a). "Block grant" means the block ant contained in Title VI of
the Child Care and Development und; as established by the
Personal Responsibility and Work portunity Reconciliation Act of
l ! 1996 (Public Law 104-193).
(b) "Child care" means all b ensed child care and development
{ services and license-exempt ild care,including,but not limited to,
private for-profit programs, onprofit programs,and publicly funded
programs, for all childr up to and including 13 years of age,
•j including children with ecial needs and children from all linguistic
and cultural backgro ds.
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(c) Childcare p eider means.a person who provides childcare.
� II services or repres is persons who provide child care services..
Comm y representative means a person who represents
an agency orb sine_ss that provides private funding for:child'care
services, or ho advocates .for . child care services through
participatio in civic or community-based organizations but is not a ,
i! i child care ovider and does not represent an agency that contracts
i withthe ate Department of Education to provide child care and
j I I develop ent services.
I ) (e} onsumer" means a parent or person who receives, or who
1' has re eived within the past 36 months,child care services. '
"Department" means the.State Department of Education.'
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