Provider Information Session - THE WEBINAR WILL START SHORTLY September 29, 2021 - Oregon Early Learning Division

Provider Information Session
    THE WEBINAR WILL START SHORTLY
            September 29, 2021

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Agenda
•   Meet Alyssa Chatterjee, Early Learning System Director
•   COVID-19 Updates
•   Reopening Grant Updates
•   Child Care Stabilization Grants

        There will be opportunity for questions after each topic

Alyssa Chatterjee, Early Learning System
Director

VISION: UNIFIED EARLY EDUCATION AND CHILD
        CARE SYSTEM DELIVERED IN DIVERSE SETTINGS
               Small and Large Family Child
                       Care Homes                  Community Based Organizations,
                                                     including Culturally Specific   Child Care Centers
                                                            Organizations
Family, Friend and
  Neighbor Care
                                                                                                          Public Schools
                                              Head Start
                                               Centers

What We are Working on
• Expanding access to public funds through Preschool Promise, Early
  Childhood Equity Fund
• Supports for providers to reduce suspension and expulsion in birth-
  age 5 child care
• Training and technical assistance for providers
• Preparing to become the Department of Early Learning & Care

COVID-19 Updates

COVID-19 Updates
• Child Care Provider COVID-19 Requirements and Recommendations
      • Masks
      • Vaccines
• Reporting to Local Public Health Authority (LPHA)
• Nurse Line: 1-833-647-8222
• Supply Bundles: Masks, gloves, disinfectant wipes, and baby wipes.
  Order from ELD website.

Masks

•Masks required indoors ages 5 (attending kindergarten) and older

•Includes home-based child care providers

•Children age 5 in preschool-age group do not need to mask

•Outdoor mask mandate does not apply to child care

•Adult face shields approved only with documented medical exemption

Vaccines
• Vaccines are only required for staff/volunteers age 16 and older in
  programs that operate in or on a K-12 facility.

• Early learning programs that lease space on a K12 campus, but
  share no facilities (including playground), staff are not required to
  vaccinate.

• Responsibility of the employer to ensure compliance and verify
  status.

Reopening Grants Update

Applying for Reopening Grants

         Event                          Action
Grant application opens    August 30, 2021 –November 30, 2021

Grant Performance Period   July 1, 2021 and end 6-months after a
                           fully executed contract
Application review         Twice monthly

Who is Eligible?
      Licensed                                                                                 License-exempt receiving ERDC

•     Owned or operated a licensed child care                                                 •      Listed and approved to receive child care
      during February 2020, and                                                                      subsidy with ODHS during February 2020,
                                                                                                     and
•     Discontinued providing child
      care between March 1, 2020 - June 28,                                                   •      Did not provide serves between March 1,
      2021 (except for regularly scheduled                                                           2020 - June 28, 2021 (except for regularly
      closures) and                                                                                  scheduled closures) and
•     Reopened or has plans to reopen after                                                   •      Reopened or has plans to reopen after
      June 30,2021                                                                                   June 30,2021
•     Commits to be enrolled with Find Child                                                  •      Commits to be enrolled with Find Child
      Care Oregon and open for referrals.                                                            Care Oregon and open for referrals.

Early Head Start, Head Start, Oregon PreK and Relief Nurseries are not eligible for this grant opportunity due to no reduction of funding during the pandemic

Estimated Award Amount
Child Care Type                               Estimated Award Amount
Family license-exempt                         $1,308
Registered Family                             $7,796
Certified Family                              $11,392
Certified Center (capacity of less than 21)   $13,332
Certified Center (capacity of 21-50)          $22,218
Certified Center (capacity greater than 50)   $33,326

Child Care Stabilization Grants

ARPA Child Care Stabilization Funds
                  $248,908,466

90% ($224 million) must go to Stabilization Grants:

• Grants are designed to stabilize existing child care businesses, not
  fund start-up of a new child care provider not yet operating.

10% ($24.9 million) allowable as follows:
• Administering stabilization subgrants
• TA and Support for subgrant
  applications

ARPA Child Care Stabilization Funds
          Eligibility Criteria

Federal- Allowable Expenses

•   Wages and benefits
•   Workforce recruitment and retention
•   COVID-19 vaccines, time-off, and transportation
•   Rent and utilities
•   Cleaning and sanitization of supplies and services
•   Equipment and supplies (including information technology)
•   Goods & services to maintain or resume child care services (including
    licensing fees)
•   Reimbursements to themselves for expenses prior to ARPA
•   Mental health services (including the ability to "opt in" to certain services)

Supports ELD Will Provide
• Application
     •   Electronic (English and Spanish)
• Videos (Closed Captioned in 5 languages)
     •   How to complete the application
     •   How to complete the W-9
•   Sample W-9
•   FAQ’s
•   Help Line : 1-800-342-6712
•   Website Review

Questions

                        Thank You
      For Follow-Up Questions: karina.guzman-ortiz@ode.state.or.us