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National Center on Tribal Early Childhood Development CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint Training FY 20202022 CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint Child Care and Development Fund Tribal Plan Pretraining Webinar 1 June 6, 2019

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National Center on Tribal

Early Childhood Development

CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint TrainingFY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint

Child Care and

Development Fund

Tribal Plan Pretraining

Webinar 1

June 6, 2019

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Welcome and Introductions

Dawn RamsburgDirector, Program Operations Division

Office of Child Care

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Welcome and Introductions

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Melody Redbird-

Post,

Project Director,

NCTECD

Christopher Woodring,

TA Specialist

Regions II, IV, V

NCTECD

Melissa Madrid,

TA Specialist

Region IX, NCTECD

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Agenda

CCDF Tribal Plan introduction

CCDF Tribal Plan training

overview

Timeline and steps for the

triennial child count

Health and safety requirements

Quality improvement goals and

activities

Resources, tools, and training

opportunities

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CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint TrainingFY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint

CCDF Tribal Plan

Introduction

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The CCDF Plan

To receive CCDF funds, Tribes must develop and submit a CCDF Plan to the Office of Child Care (OCC) every 3 years.

The completed CCDF Plan is the application Tribes use to apply for their block grant funding by providing a description of, and assurances about, the Lead Agency’s CCDF program and services

The CCDF Plan serves as a planning document for Tribes and is developed in collaboration with numerous partners and stakeholders to ensure that the CCDF program addresses the needs of families, providers, and communities over the 3-year Plan period

FY 2020-2022 CCDF Plans are the first in which Tribes are expected to be in full compliance with new requirements in the CCDBG Act of 2014 and the associated final rule

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Background

CCDBG ActCCDF Final

Rule

CCDF Final Rule Compliance Date

October 1, 2019 (Effective Date of

FY 2020-2022 CCDF Tribal Plan)

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Tiered Approach to Requirements

Requirements for Tribal Lead Agencies are

based on allocation size.

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Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.80 (2016).

Tribes with

Small

Allocations

Less than $250,000

Tribes with

Large

Allocations

More than $1 million

Tribes with

Medium

Allocations

$250,000 to $1

million

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FY 2020–2022 Tribal Plan Structure

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CCDF Plan SectionSmall

Allocations

Medium

Allocations

Large

Allocations

Part

I

Section 1: Define CCDF Leadership and Coordination with

Relevant Systems✓ ✓ ✓

Section 2: Establish Standards and Monitoring Processes to

Ensure the Health and Safety of Child Care Settings✓ ✓ ✓

Section 3: Supporting Continuous Quality Improvement ✓ ✓ ✓

Section 4: Tribes with Small Allocations Only – Direct Services ✓ N/A N/A

Part

II

Section 5: Provide Stable Child Care Financial Assistance to

Families N/A ✓ ✓

Section 6: Ensure Equal Access to High Quality Child Care for

Low-Income Children N/A ✓ ✓

Section 7: Promote Family Engagement through Outreach

and Consumer Education N/A ✓ ✓

Part

III

Appendix 1: Triennial Child Count Declaration ✓ ✓ ✓

Appendix 1A: Triennial Child Count Declaration (P.L. 102-477) ✓ ✓ ✓

Appendix 2: CCDF Program Assurances and Certifications ✓ ✓ ✓

Appendix 3: List of Certifications ✓ ✓ ✓

Appendix 4: Amendment Log ✓ ✓ ✓

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FY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan Due

Date

Current CCDF Tribal Plans are effective from FY

2017–2019

October 1, 2016–September 30, 2019

Upcoming CCDF Tribal Plans are effective from FY

2020–2022

October 1, 2019–September 30, 2022

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CCDF Tribal Plan

submission deadline:

September 6, 2019

Child count and service

area deadline: July 1,

2019

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P.L. 102-477 Tribes

P.L. 102-477 Tribes are required to submit their

child count to ACF according to the same deadline

as all other Tribes (July 1, 2019).

P.L. 102-477 Plans operate on a different cycle than

the triennial CCDF Plan.

Child count submissions may not align with P.L.

102-477 Plan submission years.

Separate guidance and instruction will be issued on

submitting the CCDF 477 Plan requirements.

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National Center on Tribal

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CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint TrainingFY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint

CCDF Tribal Plan

Training Overview

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Training Vision

The CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint trainings

will bring together tribes, Office of Child

Care staff, and technical assistance

providers to prepare tribes to submit

their fiscal year (FY) 2020–2022 CCDF

Tribal Plans, which serve as their

application for CCDF funding.

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Training Goals

To review the FY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint, which is the first preprint that reflects both the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 and the CCDF final rule

To help participants develop their tribe’s FY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan as an opportunity to describe how they deliver CCDF program services and activities to meet the needs of the children and families they serve

To provide an opportunity for tribes to interact with their peers and share ideas, strategies, culturally responsive practices, and lessons learned

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CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint TrainingFY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint

Child Count and

Service Area

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Program Instruction: Process to

Submit Child Count Declaration Form

and Definition of Indian Reservation or

Service Area

This Program Instruction

informs Tribes and Tribal

Organizations of the process

to submit the triennial child

count declaration form, and

for direct funded Tribes to

submit their definition of

Indian Reservation or

Service Area:

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ/

resource/ccdf-acf-pi-2019-02

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Child Count Declaration Form

Located in appendix 1

and 2 of the Program

Instruction, Process to

Submit Child Count

Declaration Form and

Definition of Indian

Reservation or Service

Area (CCDF-ACF-PI-

2019-02)

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Child Count Timeline

Child counts are due on July 1, 2019 and will be valid for the 3-year FY 2020–2022 CCDF Plan period.

The child count must be completed no earlier than July 1, 2018 and no later than June 30, 2019.

Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2019).

Program Instruction: Process to Submit Child Count Declaration Form and Definition of Indian Reservation or Service

Area (CCDF-ACF-PI-2019-02). Retrieved from https://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ/resource/ccdf-acf-pi-2019-02

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Child Count

A Tribe certifies the number of

Indian children under age 13

who reside within the Tribe’s

service area.

The Administration for Children

and Families (ACF) uses the

child count to calculate CCDF

grant award amounts.

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Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2019).

Program Instruction: Process to Submit Child Count Declaration Form and Definition of Indian Reservation or Service

Area (CCDF-ACF-PI-2019-02). Retrieved from https://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ/resource/ccdf-acf-pi-2019-02

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Steps for Conducting a Child

Count

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Define

“Indian

child”

Define

“service

area”

Identify

existing

data and

determine

child

count

Submit

child

count by

July 1,

2019

Confer with all other Tribes with overlapping or neighboring service

areas to ensure unduplicated child counts

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Definition of Service Area

and Indian Child

All CCDF Tribes will need to submit

their definition of “Indian Reservation or

Service Area” and “Indian Child” along

with the child count declaration

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Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2019).

Program Instruction: Process to Submit Child Count Declaration Form and Definition of Indian Reservation or Service

Area (CCDF-ACF-PI-2019-02). Retrieved from https://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ/resource/ccdf-acf-pi-2019-02

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Indian Child and Indian

Reservation or Service Area

Tribal CCDF programs are to

be carried out for the benefit

of Indian children living on or

near the Indian reservation or

service area.

Tribes must provide their

definitions of “Indian child”

and “service area” for the

purpose of determining CCDF

eligibility and completing a

child count. Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.81(b)(2) (2016).

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Indian Child Definition

Tribal Lead Agencies have flexibility in defining “Indian child”

The definition must be limited to children from federally recognized Indian Tribes

It is often the case that the Tribal Lead Agency’s definition of “Indian child” will vary from the Tribe’s enrollment criteria

“Indian child” definitions may

include the following children:

Tribal members

Those whose membership is

pending

Those who are eligible for

membership

Children or descendants of

members

Adopted children, foster

children, and step-children of

members

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Examples of “Indian Child”

Definitions

A child under the age of 13 who is an enrolled member of the Tribe

A child under the age of 13 who has verifiable American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry as determined by the following:

Tribal enrollment

Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB)

Birth certificate documenting lineage or descent

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Indian Reservation or Service

Area

A Tribal Lead Agency’s service area must be “on or near the

reservation,” and therefore must be within a reasonably close

geographic proximity to the delineated borders of a Tribe's

reservation, with the exception of Alaska, California, and

Oklahoma.

Tribes that do not have reservations must establish service

areas within reasonably close geographic proximity to the

area where the Tribe's population resides.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) will not

approve an entire state as a Tribal Lead Agency’s service

area.

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Examples of “Service Area”

Definitions

Living on or near the reservation, defined as within XX miles of the reservation.

Where the majority of the Tribal population resides, within the boundaries of Alpha, Bravo, or Charlie Counties, with the exception of the City of Delta, per a Memorandum of Agreement with the Delta Tribe.

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Child Count and Consortia

Tribal consortia must submit an individual child count declaration for each participating Tribe.

The consortium must also include a total child count that is the sum of the child counts for all participating Tribes.

If a consortium gains or loses one of its member organizations at any time, adjustments to the child count must be made accordingly.

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Adjacent or Overlapping

Service Areas

Tribal Lead Agencies may

not count any child who is

included in the child count

of another Tribal Lead

Agency.

Tribal Lead Agencies are

required to confer with

other Tribal Lead

Agencies with

overlapping or

neighboring service areas

to ensure unduplicated

child counts.

Strategies for coordinating with

Tribal Lead Agencies with

overlapping or neighboring

service areas include the

following:

Writing a letter

Sending a formal email

Conducting an in-person or

virtual meeting

Developing a memorandum

of understanding

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Example: Child Count Action

Steps for Overlapping Service

Areas

• Identify Tribal communities with overlapping service areas

• Identify contacts from neighboring Tribes

• Create a formal mechanism to confer with neighboring Tribes about overlapping service areas

• Develop written policies and procedures to address the process for obtaining the child count and methodology from neighboring Tribes

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Data Sources

It is imperative that the data used to conduct

the child count are valid and reliable.

Potential data sources could include, but are

not limited to

Tribal enrollment data,

Indian Health Service records,

U.S. Census data, and

school enrollment information.

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Poll: True or False

All of the following are reliable sources

for collecting data:

Tribal enrollment data

Tribal hospital or clinic data

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) data

Federal census data

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Conduct Child Count

Tribes should have written policies and

procedures for conducting the child count.

Document your methodology, including

data sources and detailed calculation

steps.

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Questions?

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CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint TrainingFY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint

CCDF Tribal Plan Section 2

Health and Safety

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Health and Safety Requirements

Health and safety requirements apply to all Tribal Lead Agencies and all child care providers who receive CCDF funds.

Health and safety requirements are organized around a list of topics that apply to

standards appropriate to provider setting and age of children served;

training for caregivers, teachers, and directors; and

monitoring and enforcement.

Health and safety requirements also include

criminal background check requirements, and

disaster preparedness and response plan requirements.

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Categories of Care

Center-based, including tribally operated centers

Family child care

In-home (in the child’s home)

Health and safety requirements apply to all child care providers who receive CCDF funds, including providers who only receive quality funds

This also includes the following:

Tribal language and culture camps

Language nests

School-break camps

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Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R § 98.2 (2016).

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Relative Care Providers Tribal Lead Agencies can choose to exempt relative care providers

from some or all of their health and safety requirements

Relative care providers must be caring for only children who are related to them to be exempt

Relative care providers include individuals who are 18 years of age or older and related to eligible child by marriage, blood relationship or court decree

Tribal Lead Agencies can choose to exempt the following relative care providers from their standards:

Grandparents

Great-grandparents

Siblings in a separate residence

Aunts

Uncles

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Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R § 98.2(2); § 98.42(c) (2016).

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Health and Safety

Requirements in the CCDF

Final Rule

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Standards Training Monitoring

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CCDF Health and

Safety Standards

Health and safety standards

establish your CCDF

program’s minimum expectations for your

approved providers,

set the foundation for the health and safety of children

in quality care settings, and should

strengthen the relationship between caregivers

and children as well as provide for the safety

and developmental needs of the children served,

given the type of child care setting.

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Health and Safety Standards by

Required Topic

1. Prevention (including immunizations) and

control of infectious diseases

2. Prevention of sudden infant

death syndrome and the use of

safe sleep practices

3. Administration of medication, consistent

with standards for parental consent

4. Prevention of and response

to emergencies due to food and allergic

reactions

5. Building and physical premises safety

6. Prevention of shaken baby

syndrome, abusive head trauma, and

child maltreatment

7. Emergency preparedness and response

8. Handling and storage of hazardous materials and the appropriate disposal of biocontaminants

9. Precautions in transporting children (if applicable)

10. Pediatric first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

11. Recognition and reporting of child abuse and neglect

Optional Topics:

Nutrition (including age-appropriate feeding)

Access to physical activity

Caring for children with special needs

Any other subject area determined by the Tribal Lead Agency to be necessary to promote child development or to protect children’s health and safety

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Optional Health and Safety Topics

Nutrition (including age-appropriate feeding)

Access to physical activity

Caring for children with special needs

Any other subject area determined by the Tribal Lead Agency to be necessary to promote child development or to protect children’s health and safety

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Standards on Child-Staff Ratios, Group

Sizes, and Qualifications for CCDF

Providers

Tribal Lead Agencies are

required to establish standards

for the following:

Child-staff ratios

Group size limits

Required qualifications for

providers

Standards should reflect the

child care setting and the ages of

children served

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Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R § 98.41(d) (2016).

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Approaches for Health

and Safety Standards

Adopting an existing set of health and safety

standards

Adapting an existing set of health and safety

standards

Writing your own set of health and safety

standards

Using a combination of standards

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Considerations for Health

and Safety Standards

Provides guidelines for a

minimum set of health and

safety standards specifically for

Tribal Lead Agencies that are

aligned to the health and safety

requirements outlined in the

CCDF final rule

Represents a baseline from

which all Tribal Lead Agencies

should operate to ensure that

children are cared for in healthy

and safe environments and that

their basic needs are met

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History

2008

Minimum Standards for Tribal Child Care:

A Health and Safety Guide updated

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History (continued)

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2014

Child Care and

Development

Block Grant

Act of 2014

signed into law

2015

Caring for Our

Children Basics

released

2016

Tribal Health

and Safety

Workgroup

convened

2016

CCDF final

rule published

2016–2018

Office of Child Care and

NCTECD align workgroup

recommendations to

CCDF final rule

2018

Tribal

consultation

held

2018

Minimum Health and Safety

Standards: A Guide for American

Indian and Alaska Native Child

Care and Development Fund

Grantees published

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Example Standard: Recognizing

and Reporting Suspected Child

Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation

“Because caregivers/teachers are mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect, AI/AN CCDF grantees should have a written policy for reporting child abuse and neglect.

The written policy should specify that in any instance where there is reasonable cause to believe that child abuse or neglect has occurred, the individual who suspects child abuse or neglect should report directly to the child abuse reporting hotline, child protective services, or the tribal or state police, as required by tribal, federal, state and local laws.”

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Source: Minimum Health and Safety Standards: A Guide for AI/AN CCDF Grantees, Revised 2018, from:

https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/resource/minimum-health-and-safety-standards-guide-american-indian-and-alaska-native-

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Poll

What are your plans for meeting the health and

safety requirements?

Adopt an existing set of health and safety standards

Adapt an existing set of health and safety standards

Write your own set of health and safety standards

Use a combination of standards

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Training for Providers

Caregivers, teachers and directors must:

Meet minimum pre‐service and/or orientation training requirements (to be completed within 3 months), as appropriate to the provider setting and the age of children served, that address the health and safety standards and child development

Meet ongoing training requirements on the health and safety standards and child development

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Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R § 98.44(b) (2016).

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Health and Safety Training for

CCDF Providers on Required

Topics 1. Prevention (including immunizations)

and control of infectious diseases

2. Prevention of sudden infant

death syndrome and the use of

safe sleep practices

3. Administration of medication, consistent

with standards for parental consent

4. Prevention of and response

to emergencies due to food and allergic

reactions

5. Building and physical premises safety

6. Prevention of shaken baby

syndrome, abusive head trauma, and

child maltreatment

7. Emergency preparedness and response

8. Handling and storage of

hazardous materials and the appropriate

disposal of biocontaminants

9. Precautions in transporting children

(if applicable)

10. Pediatric first aid and

cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

11. Recognition and reporting of child

abuse and neglect

12. Child development

Optional Topics:

Nutrition (including age-appropriate feeding)

Access to physical activity

Caring for children with special needs

Any other subject area determined by the

Tribal Lead Agency to be necessary to

promote child development or to

protect children’s health and safety

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Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R §§ 98.41(a), 98.44(b) (2016).

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Example: Standards and

Training

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Standards Training

Standard: Recognizing and Reporting Suspected Child Abuse, Neglect, and

Exploitation

“Because caregivers/teachers are

mandated reporters of child abuse and

neglect, AI/AN CCDF grantees should

have a written policy for reporting child

abuse and neglect.

The written policy should specify that in

any instance where there is reasonable

cause to believe that child abuse or

neglect has occurred, the individual who

suspects child abuse or neglect should

report directly to the child abuse reporting

hotline, child protective services, or the

tribal or state police, as required by tribal,

federal, state and local laws.”

Training: Recognizing and Reporting Suspected Child Abuse, Neglect, and

Exploitation

Training on recognizing and reporting suspected child abuse, neglect, and

exploitation is provided by CCDF partners in the Tribal Indian Child Welfare

department

Pre-service training on this standard, policy, and procedures is required for all newly hired caregivers, teachers, and directors

serving all ages of children in center-based care

Ongoing training of 2 hours on this standard, policy and procedures is required annually for all center-based providers who

serve all ages of children in care.

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Monitoring Requirements

Tribal Lead Agencies must have the following requirements for

health, safety, fire, monitoring, and inspection, by provider type:

Licensed or regulated CCDF providers require

one prelicensure inspection and

an annual unannounced inspection.

License-exempt CCDF providers require

an annual inspection.

Tribal Lead Agencies also have the option to describe an

alternative monitoring approach in their CCDF Plan and

provide adequate justification for the approach.

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Note: Tribal Lead Agencies are not required to have licensing requirements for child care.

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Example: Standard, Training,

and Monitoring Implementation

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Standards Training Monitoring

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Monitoring: Recognizing and Reporting Suspected Child Abuse,

Neglect, and Exploitation

Required pre-approval monitoring inspection visit to ensure provider has documentation that indicates current

training on standard has been completed for caregivers, teachers, and directors

serving all ages of children.

Required annual unannounced monitoring inspection visit to ensure center-based provider can provide

documentation that mandatory training had occurred and has been maintained on an annual basis for all caregivers,

teachers, and directors.

Inspection visits completed by CCDF partners at local Indian Health Service

Environmental Health department using checklist developed with CCDF program.

Standard: Recognizing and Reporting Suspected Child Abuse,

Neglect, and Exploitation

“Because caregivers/teachers are

mandated reporters of child abuse and

neglect, AI/AN CCDF grantees should have

a written policy for reporting child abuse

and neglect.

The written policy should specify that in any

instance where there is reasonable cause

to believe that child abuse or neglect has

occurred, the individual who suspects child

abuse or neglect should report directly to

the child abuse reporting hotline, child

protective services, or the tribal or state

police, as required by tribal, federal, state

and local laws.”

Training: Recognizing and Reporting Suspected Child

Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation

Training on recognizing and reporting suspected child abuse, neglect, and

exploitation is provided by CCDF partners in the Tribal Indian Child

Welfare department

Pre-service training on this standard, policy, and procedures is required for all newly hired caregivers, teachers,

and directors serving all ages of children in center-based care

Ongoing training of 2 hours on this standard, policy and procedures is

required annually for all center-based providers who serve all ages of

children in care.

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CCDF Tribal Plan Section 3

Quality Improvement

Goals and Activities

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Quality Improvement

Requirements

All Tribal Lead Agencies

are required to spend a

percentage of their total

CCDF expenditures on

“activities designed to

improve the quality of child

care services and increase

parental options for, and

access to high-quality

child care.”

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Spending Requirements by

Allocation Size

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All Tribes

• Subject to an increasing quality set-aside

• Phase-in began at 4% in FY 2017

• Increases to 9% by FY 2022

Tribes with Medium and Large

Allocations

• Subject to a 3% infant/toddler set-aside

• Began in FY 2019

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Phase-In Period for Quality Spending Requirements

Tribes with Small Allocations

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Quality Spending FFY 2017 FFY 2018 FFY 2019 FFY 2020 FFY 2021FFY 2022

(and ongoing)

% Quality Set-Aside (All) 4% 7% 7% 8% 8% 9%

Total % Quality

(Small)4% 7% 7% 8% 8% 9%

Source: Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.83(g) (2016).

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Phase-In Period for Quality Spending Requirements

Tribes with Medium and Large Allocations

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Quality Spending FFY 2017 FFY 2018 FFY 2019 FFY 2020 FFY 2021FFY 2022

(and ongoing)

% Quality Set-Aside (All) 4% 7% 7% 8% 8% 9%

% Infant-Toddler Set-Aside

(Medium and Large)0% 0% 3% 3% 3% 3%

Total % Quality

(Medium and Large)4% 7% 10% 11% 11% 12%

Source: Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.83(g) (2016).

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Poll Question: Increasing

Quality

Are your quality expenditures to date in

line with FY 2019 spending

requirements?

Are you aware that you can exceed the

minimum dollar amounts for quality

expenditures?

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10 Categories: CCDF Quality

Activities

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Training and professional

development

Early learning and

development guidelines

Tiered quality rating and

improvement system

Quality and supply of

infant/toddler services

Child care resource and

referral services

Licensing and health and safety

requirements

Quality evaluation

Accreditation

High-quality program standards

Other measurable quality

activities as determined by the

Tribal Lead Agency

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Example: Trainings to

Increase Quality “Supporting the training and professional development of the child

care workforce…”

Examples include training on the following:

Implementing developmentally appropriate, culturally and

linguistically responsive instruction

Family engagement

Indigenous nutrition and foods

Promotion of child development

Caring for children with special health or developmental needs

Child care as a business, administration and program management

Curriculum development and instruction

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Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.53 (2016).

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Example: Health and Safety

and Licensing

“Facilitating compliance with Lead Agency requirements for inspection, monitoring, training, and health and safety, and with licensing standards”

Example activities include the following:

Supporting compliance with Final Rule requirements

Developing your own licensing requirements

Working with Indian Health Serviceto develop licensing and monitoring tools

Enhancing environmental safety (for example, playgrounds)

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Source: Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.53 (2016).

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Example: Accreditation

“Supporting child care providers in the voluntary pursuit of accreditation by a national accrediting body with demonstrated, valid, and reliable program standards of high quality”

Example activities include the following:

Using accreditation guidelines as a quality measure

Funding any aspect of national accreditation (for example, accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children or the National Association for Family Child Care)

Paying annual accreditation fees

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Example: Other Measurable

Quality Activities: Language

and Culture Offering tribal language as part of the daily

curriculum

Incorporating cultural education opportunities

Including cultural activities as part of family engagement

Implementing immersion classrooms or language nests

Partnering with language and culture departments to build curricula

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CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint TrainingFY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint

Resources, Tools,

and Training

Opportunities

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CCDF Plan Preprint Trainings: Documents

to Bring

Draft 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan

Current approved 2017–2019 CCDF Tribal Plan for reference

Current CCDF program policies and procedures

Current health and safety standards

Completed or draft child count and Indian reservation or service area declaration form

Current CCDF program forms and tracking tools

Note: Please bring a laptop computer or other device with access to the Adobe Acrobat Reader software (which can be downloaded for free) and Microsoft Word (participants without laptops/devices will be provided either paper or electronic copies of the meeting materials).

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Checklist: Getting Ready for Your CCDF

Plan Submission

Checklist outlines tasks related

to the CCDF Plan

Resources are provided to

support planning

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Available on the NCTECD website at https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/resource/checklist-

getting-ready-your-child-care-and-development-fund-plan-submission

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CCDF Final Rule Overview

Provides an

overview of CCDF

final rule

requirements by

allocation size

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Available on the NCTECD website at:

https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/resource/ccdf-final-rule-overview-american-indian-

and-alaska-native-grantees

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Roadmap to Reauthorization

Self-Assessment Tool

Available on the NCTECD website at https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/resource/roadmap-

reauthorization-self-assessment-and-implementation-planning-tool

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Policies and Procedures Checklist for CCDF

Tribal Lead Agencies

Developed to support

Tribal Lead Agencies in

assessing the

comprehensiveness of

their written policies and

procedures in

relationship to the CCDF

Final Rule requirements

Available on the NCTECD website at https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/resource/policies-

and-procedures-checklist-child-care-and-development-fund-tribal-lead-agencies

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Next Pretraining Webinar

CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint Pretraining

Webinar 2

Monday, June 10, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

(EDT)

For Tribes with medium and large allocations

(allocations of $250,000 or more)

Register here:

https://ccsssn.adobeconnect.com/ccdftribalpre

webinar2/event/registration.html

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Contact Information: Regional Program

Managers

Region I: Shireen Riley

[email protected]

Region II: Magdamari Marcano

[email protected]

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Region III: Beverly Wellons

[email protected]

Region IV: Eric R. Blanchette

[email protected]

Region V: Gena Miller

[email protected]

Region VI: Gwendolyn Jones

[email protected]

Region VII: Doris Hallford

[email protected]

Region VIII: Karen Knoll-Moran

[email protected]

Region IX: Abby Cohen

[email protected]

Region X: Paul Noski

[email protected]

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Contact Information: NCTECD

Region I: Barbara Buckshot-Jock [email protected]

Region II, IV, and V: Chris Woodring [email protected]

Region VI: Dee Fragua [email protected]

Region VII and VIII: Char Schank [email protected]

Region IX: Melissa Madrid [email protected]

Region X: Jessica Farley [email protected]

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We appreciate your feedback!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pretraining_webinar1

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CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint TrainingFY 2020–2022 CCDF Tribal Plan Preprint

National Center on Tribal Early Childhood Development,

A Service of the Office of Child Care

9300 Lee Highway

Fairfax, VA 22031

Phone: 877-296-2401

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