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The California Child Care Coordinators
Association monitors state legislation that
affects our state's children and families. Here
is the list of bills that we are watching, as of March 5, 2010.
To download this PDF file, Click
Here.
Go here for the 2010 California Legislative Calendar.
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Public Policy Platform
Each year at the annual training conference in October, the CCCCA creates a public policy platform to guide its advocacy efforts throughout the year.
Please click here to download the platform (PDF).
California Child Care Coordinators Association
2009-2010 Public Policy Platform
QUALITY
To ensure the best outcomes for young children and their families birth to13, we support
a sufficiently funded system that ensures high quality programs including:
developmentally appropriate curriculum; environments conducive to learning and
development; knowledgeable, well-trained, educated and well-compensated staff; robust
parental engagement and comprehensive services- all of which are culturally and
linguistically appropriate and that respect and support diversity.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
To ensure all children are cared for and educated in safe and healthy environments, we
must have a sufficiently funded and staffed Community Care Licensing system and
supports to monitor, provide technical assistance, and resources to current and future
licensed programs and providers.
WORKFORCE
To ensure that a qualified workforce cares for and educates our diverse population of
young children, we promote public and private efforts and systems that recruit, retain,
and support a diverse, well-trained, well-educated, well-compensated child care/ECE
workforce that is recognized as professional. This workforce must have access to high
quality, coordinated educational and professional development systems that address
cultural, linguistic, and literacy needs on a continuum from entry-level through degree
attainment.
AVAILABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND AFFORDABILITY
To ensure all families and their children benefit from high quality child care/ECE services,
including children who face challenges such as learning a second language, socioeconomics, disability and social health care needs, we support investments and
strategies that increase the availability, accessibility and affordability of high quality
services and preserve our diverse delivery system, inclusive of direct funding to all types
of legal entities in both the public and private sectors.
FACILITIES
To ensure that all children are cared for and educated in high quality, inclusive
environments within a diverse delivery system, we support strategies at the state and
local levels that equitably improve and expand the public and private capital resources
and technical expertise available to develop, finance, and maintain needed new and
existing high quality child care/ECE facilities.
SYSTEMS FINANCING AND ADMINISTRATION
To ensure and support a comprehensive, high quality child care/ECE system, we promote
streamlined and efficient administration, including well-financed and coordinated
regulatory, contracting and reimbursement processes. This child care/ECE system will
require coordination between and integration within state agencies that physical or
mental health, prevention/ early intervention, K-12 and higher education, community and
economic development, family support, food/nutrition, social services and recreation
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