ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS: * THIS MEETING WILL BE RECORDED, THE * QUESTIONS FOR SPEAKERS CAN BE SHARED IN RECORDING WILL BE AVAILABLE THE CHAT BOX, MAKE SURE TO SELECT "ALL PANELISTS AT WWW.FIRSTUP.ORG/COVID-19 BY END OF DAY. AND PARTICIPANTS." Agenda: SEPECC Meeting 9:00 Welcome & Update 9:05 ELRC Updates Tuesday, , 2020 9:35 Funding Update 9:40 Advocacy Skill Building 10:00 Planning for Reopen 10:15 Learning Opportunity 10:25 Community Partner Updates Meeting will 10:35 Self-Care Moment begin in: 10:40 Wrap Up 10:45 – 11:15 Break Out Groups
KAREN GRIMM-THOMAS C-KGRIMMTH@PA.GOV DIANE GETZINGER - PHILADELPHIA DGETZINGER@CARINGPEOPLEALLIANCE.ORG Updates from ANGIE SOMOGYI – BUCKS ASOMOGYI@CSCINC.ORG OCDEL and BETSY VASSALLO – CHESTER BVASSALLO@PHMC.ORG ELRCs MAGGIE JOHNSON – MONTGOMERY MJOHNSON2@MONTCOPA.ORG TAMMY JOLAOSO – DELAWARE TJOLAOSO@PHMC.ORG
ANNOUNCEMENT ELRC # 20-11: RESTORING CHILD CARE WORKS PAYMENT PRACTICES BASED ON ATTENDANCE AND INVOICING FOR ALL CHILDREN Effective September 1, 2020 , CCW payments will return to payment practices and policies based on attendance and invoicing for all children, regardless of when the child was enrolled with the provider. Absences will be tracked and counted towards the 40 days of absences for all children. Children’s enrollment after five days of consecutive absence will be suspended until the child returns to care. All Adverse Action notices will be sent to families per policy. ELRCs will begin to send Adverse Action notices that have been held due to revised COVID-19 policy. Dual enrollments, the practice implemented under COVID-19 to support both a closed provider and families who needed care will end. Children will be enrolled only with the provider where the child attends. Collection of family co-pays will resume.
Reminder: If you have not submitted your Attestation to receive CARES funding, the deadline is July 22, 2020. You do NOT need to submit a new form for July. You should only submit one form to the ELRC in the region where your program is located (regardless of which ELRC is paying for enrollments).
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Advocacy Skill Building
TAKE ACTION FOR CHILD CARE ECE is operating at ~80% capacity; of those open: 70% are spending more on cleaning supplies and PPE 73% have made layoffs, furloughs and/or pay cuts 86% are serving fewer children Without additional funding 47% will close If there is no child care, there is no recovery.
NAEYC SURVEY RESULTS
THE POWER OF STORIES AND DATA
SOCIAL MEDIA OUTREACH 6/30 Twitterstorm 7/16 National Advocacy event 7/28 ELPA Twitter Chat – RSVP today!
PROVIDER Adrienne Briggs Absblessed04@yahoo.com SPOTLIGHT
Planning for Re-Open
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT: YOUNGER DAYS CHILD CARE Robyn Younger youngerdays@aol.com
RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT: SEL SUPPORT TOOL https://www.firstup.org/covid-19
Opportunity for Learning: Racial Justice
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT: CHILDREN’S COMMUNITY SCHOOL Jarrod Green jarrod@childrenscommunityschool.org
COMMUNITY PARTNER UPDATES Teri Bell Dionne Chambers The Reinvestment Free Library of Fund Philadelphia Nikki Lee Philadelphia Becca Tyrrell Department of First Up Health
TERI BELL THE REINVESTMENT FUND TERI.BELL@REINVESTMENT.COM
PHL Childcare Reopen Survey for Families
How can you help spread the word? • Forward to your families Take the PHL Childcare Reopen Survey Reinvestment Fund, the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Children and Families, Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC), and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey are conducting a city-wide survey to understand childcare needs as people head back to work and school. The survey will be open on the Reinvestment Fund website for the next two weeks and is available in eight languages. Parents and guardians can participate in the online survey anonymously to share their needs and concerns around care for children ages 0 to 5 in their household. Participants who complete the survey will be entered into a daily drawing for a $100 Visa gift card. • Send out on Social Media Attention families with young children in Philly! How is COVID-19 impacting your childcare plans as you head back to work? Tell us with a short survey: www.reinvestment.com/phlchildcarereopensurvey (Tag in photo:@reinvestfund @PHLfamilies @PHMCtweets @PhillySJUnited @PHLfamilies)
Funding Opportunity: COVID-19 PA Hazard Pay Grant Eligibility • Businesses – a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, limited liability company, business trust, or other commercial entity. • Employees must be ‘front-line’ employees facing the hazards of COVID- 19 and have continued working through the Governor’s March 19, 2020 Business Closure Order as a life sustaining business or a business that received a business waiver. Employees teleworking from home are not eligible • Eligible employees = earning less than $20/hour, excluding fringe benefits and overtime. Use of funds • May apply for up to $1,200 per eligible full-time equivalent (FTE) employee. • The hazard pay must be paid to the eligible employee over the 10-week period of August 16, 2020 through October 24, 2020 as a $3/hour hazard pay increase to their regular pay rate. Application window is open now through July 31, 2020
DIONNE CHAMBERS FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA WRIGHT- CHAMBERSD@FREELIBRARY.ORG
Free Library of Philadelphia’s Literacy in Early Learning Spaces Dionne Chambers Lead Early Childhood Literacy Specialist Wright-ChambersD@freelibrary.org
Support through this program includes: • Free Book Nooks with books & materials for babies , toddlers , and preschoolers • Professional Development for child care staff to support early literacy and language development • Special Family Events • Support and training for dual-language learners and their families • Ongoing on-site support from an Early Childhood Literacy Specialist
Resources for YOU! • Instagram @freelibrary_earlylearning • Instagram @Read.Baby.Read • Join our newsletter!
Free Library Resources • Apply online for a Library card! • Check out daily virtual programming, for all ages • Summer of Wonder – activities, and reading challenge!
NIKKI LEE PHILADELPHIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH NIKKI.LEE@PHILA.GOV
Becoming a Breastfeeding Friendly Childcare Program Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, CCE, IBCLC, CIMI, ANLC, CKC, RYT PQAS Certified Specialty Discipline Instructor Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Division of Maternal, Child and Family Health
Philadelphia is a Baby-Friendly™ city. nleeguitar@gmail.com 2020 30
2006 39% Breastfeeding initiation rates 2019 83% nleeguitar@gmail.com 2020 31
Hospitals are helping families who want to breastfeed. Breastfeeding rates are going up. Workplaces have breastfeeding policies.
You can support the breastfeeding relationship when the baby is in your program. Nikki.Lee@phila.gov Philadelphia Department of Public Health 33
Becoming a Breastfeeding Friendly Childcare Program FREE: 2 Pennsylvania Quality Assurance System (PQAS) credits : • How to prepare, store and feed breastmilk. • Safe milk preparation and storage techniques as recommended by the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine • The benefits of breastfeeding to mothers, babies and their families. WHEN? A 2 Hour VIRTUAL Workshop can be scheduled at your agency . WHO TO CONTACT? Email: nikki.lee@phila.gov
BECCA TYRRELL FIRST UP REBECCA.TYRELL@FIRSTUP.ORG
THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-CARE Take a break from Exercise. Smile and laugh. the stressor. Get social Meditate. support.
ALIX COZEN FIRST UP ALIX.COZEN@FIRSTUP.ORG
SEPECC CALL RESOURCES AND PRESENTERS PRESENTERS: SEPECC STEERING COMMITTEE: Karen Grimm-Thomas - c-kgrimmth@pa.gov Maddy Malis, FELS Diane Getzinger - dgetzinger@caringpeoplealliance.org Mary Graham, Children’s Village Elizabeth Farwell-Ozer - elizabeth.ozer@firstup.org Rachael Fennel, Elwyn SEEDS Jackie Groetsch – jackie.groetsch@firstup.org Norma Finkelstein, FELS Adrienne Briggs - Absblessed04@yahoo.com Shineal Hunter, Family Circle Academy Robyn Younger – youngerdays@aol.com Shawn Towey, PACCA Jarrod Green – jarrod@childrenscommunityschool.org Stephanie Bey, City of Philadelphia Teri Bell – teri.bell@reinvestment.com Sara Jann, Maternity Care Coalition Dionne Chambers – wright-chambersd@freelibrary.org Marykay Mahar, PHMC Nikki Lee – Nikki.lee@phila.gov Sharon McClafferty, PHMC Becca Tyrrell – rebecca.tyrrell@firstup.org Minnette Taylor, Minnie Montessori Academy Alix Cozen – alix.cozen@firstup.org Latonta Godboldt, Small Wonders Family Daycare Eleanor Levie, National Council of Jewish Women www.firstup.org/covid-19 Khadijah Sabir To be added to the First Up newsletter e-mail Pamela Haines, First Up Becca Tyrrell at rebecca.tyrrell@firstup.org Elizabeth Ozer , First Up , Jackie Groetsch, First Up
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