Child Care and Development Fund Program (CCDF)

1. Child Care and Development Fund Program (CCDF) California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc.

2. CCDF Program Background • Nexus: A child care subsidy program. • Target: Tribal families and children. • Purpose: Equitable access to affordable and reliable child care. • Outcome: Tribal families returning to work/school to become self sufficient while assuring proper child care for their children. • CCDF is a social service program.

3. CCDF Program Background • Funded by Child Care Bureau, not Head Start Bureau. • Created to assist tribal families in the form of child care subsidies. • To qualify person must have/or be: • Tribal membership • Income eligible • Parent must work or attend school and • Child must be under 13 years of age

4. CCDF Program Background (cont’d) • Ione Band of Miwok Indians; • Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of Stewarts Point; • Manchester Band of Pomo Indians Rancheria; • Shingle Springs Rancheria; • Resighini Rancheria; • Tejon Tribe; • Tule River Reservation; and • Wilton Rancheria • Tribal applicant must be a member of the following tribes: • Big Lagoon Rancheria; • Big Valley Rancheria; • Cold Springs Rancheria; • Elk Valley Rancheria; • Fort Bidwell Reservation; • Federated Indians of Graton; • Greenville Rancheria;

5. CCDF Program Updates • Program received additional funds in 2018. • Increased program by - $1 million • Total new funding for program: • $2.4 million added: • Support for child care providers – professional development, and health and safety equipment purchased for them. • Increased hourly reimbursement rate for child care providers.

6. CCDF Program Updates (cont’d) • Stimulus funding – Report completed. • Rec’d $191,000.00 • Created new job in order to provide better customer services to CCDF families. • Must spend by Sept. 20, 2011. • 2007 – 2009 Funding Year • Funds 95% spent, as required by Sept. 30, 2009 • Assisted approximately: • 148 families • 228 children • Increased number of families and children by 48% approximately from the prior year.

7. CCDF Program Update (cont’d) • Quality Improvement Activities: • Monitoring of both center-based child care and home child care by CCDF program coordinator; • Health and Safety Trainings; • Purchased backpacks with health and safety information and products for children. • Purchased backpacks for children with educational curriculum for grandparents to work with the child. • Collaborative work with: • Family and Community Department and • Dental Program. These are a few of the activities that CCDF provided for families.

8. CCDF Working Projects: • Continue working with California Department of Education. • Creation of the first Tribal Child Care of California Association; • Continue working with Tribal TANF programs across the state. • Training workshops with Head Start program. • Increase monitoring of child care centers • Increase child care payments for providers. • Creation of Tribally designed CCDF education curriculum for in-home, family care. • Continue collaboration with other CRIHB departments to bring health, safety and educational trainings to Child Care providers, CCDF parents and children. • Continue providing Quality Improvement activities for CCDF participants.

9. Facilitating Access to CCDF • CCDF application, and program forms online at www.crihb.org • Postings regarding trainings, conferences and new updates. • Public input section will be created.

10. Contacting CCDF • CRIHB – 916-929-9761 • CCDF Director: AnnLouise Bonnitto, JD • CCDF Program Specialist: Shelley Whitebear • CCDF Program Assistant: Kristian Zavala • Administrative Assistant: Valerie Contreras • abonnitto@crihb.org; swhitebear@crihb.org • kzavala@crihb.org; vcontreras@crihb.org