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ALLOCATING PUBLIC REVENUES LOCAL GOVERNMENT OTHER SITES WITH SIMILAR STRATEGIES King County, Washington, has approved an ordinance to augment child care employee wages in the City of Seattle, and is considered likely to allocate $300,000 for this purpose. Illinois recently enacted a wage supplementation bill called “Great Start” and allocated $3 million of its federal Child Care and Development Fund for the initiative. For information, contact Elissa Bassler at the Day Care Action Council (773) 769 8020 or elissa@daycareaction.org. Salary enhancement legislation passed in New York in 2000 and was funded at $40 million. For more information, contact Agnes Zellin at the New York State Child Care Coordinating Council at (518) 463 8663 or e–mail: agnes@nyscccc.org. North Carolina sponsors the WAGE$ TM initiative. (See the profile on page 66.) Nassau County, New York, has operated a salary enhancement grants program for approximately 19 years. CONTACTS Dolores G. Terrazas City Wide Child Care Coordinator Mayor’s Office of Children, Youth & Their Families 1390 Market Street, Suite 925 San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone (415) 554 8791 Fax (415) 554 8965 E–mail dolores@mocyf.org For information about model CARES legislation, contact: Marci Young, Executive Director Center for the Child Care Workforce 733 Fifteenth St. NW, Suite 1037 Washington, DC 20005 Phone (202) 737 7700 Fax (202) 737 0370 E–mail ccw@ccw.org WORKING PARENTS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND TRUST FUND (MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND) DESCRIPTION Montgomery County, Maryland, has established a subsidized child care program, the Working Parents Assistance Program, and a public–private fund, the Working Parents Trust Fund. The trust fund is a volunteer–run fund that raises money from individuals, foundations and businesses to extend the number of families served by the Working Parents Assistance Program. One–hundred percent of the funds are invested in child care. WHEN ESTABLISHED The Working Parents Assistance Program was established in 1986 and the trust fund was established in 1995 in response to a waiting list of 2,600 children. ANNUAL AMOUNT The Working Parents Assistance Program budget for FY 2000 was $3.5 million and was derived from the Montgomery County general fund. The trust fund has provided a total of nearly $200,000 in private contributions from individuals, foundations and businesses to aid the Working Parents Assistance Program since it was established in 1995. During 1999 the trust fund raised $43,000. Since the trust fund was established, contributions have ranged from small, individual gifts ($10 and under) up to $20,000. SERVICES FUNDED Through the Working Parents Assistance Program, eligible parents are provided with child care subsidies so parents can maintain employment or attend school or training. Participating families must select licensed or registered child care in Montgomery County. The program provides individual counseling to participating families, assists single parent families to secure child support from absent parents and annually reassesses its financial assistance levels based on the costs of living and child care in Montgomery County. HOW FUNDS DISTRIBUTED The Working Parents Assistance Program requires parents to make an application. The Montgomery County child care subsidy program has established a single phone number that families can call to find out if they qualify for the Working Parents Assistance Program or the state’s subsidized child care program, known as Purchase of Care. After the telephone screening, the parent must meet with a Family Services Worker from the Working Parents Assistance Program to complete eligibility requirements. The program provides 109
participating parents with vouchers used to purchase licensed and registered child care. The trust fund transfers all of its contribution to the Working Parents Assistance Program. POPULATION SERVED The Working Parents Assistance Program is available to parents who are working 35 or more hours each week. Parents must have children age 14 or under, work or attend school and must, if a single parent, pursue child support through the court system. Family income cannot exceed $35,000 annually. Each year nearly 1,300 families are served. STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS • The Working Parents Assistance Program was established by county government because the state–sponsored subsidized child care program did not meet the needs of working families in Montgomery County. Montgomery is one of the more affluent counties in Maryland and has high child care costs. Working parents often had incomes that surpassed the limits set by the state, and the state’s payment rates to the providers were substantially below the cost of child care. Initially, the county opted to supplement the state’s subsidized child care program, Purchase of Care. This did not prove to be a successful approach because the state’s rigid rules were applied across the board. The Working Parents Assistance Program was established as a separate child care subsidy program at the county level with the goal of helping families achieve greater self–sufficiency. • The program has been designed to promote efficiency by careful definition of eligibility for the Working Parents Assistance Progam and the state’s subsidy program. Parents do not have the option of choosing between them. Parents who have lower earnings or who work fewer hours must participate in the state’s Purchase of Care program. • The county’s eligibility rules grew out of the unique circumstances in the county and the desire to foster family self–sufficiency. Parents must show that they need child care for at least 35 hours a week, due to either education or employment, and single parents must pursue child support. • The trust fund was started in response to a long county–level waiting list for subsidized child care. Until recently, the trust fund was promoted by a volunteer, who is credited with raising most of the private funds, increasing the visibility of the subsidy program and drawing attention to the tremendous demand, as shown by the waiting list. In part due to her efforts, the county decided to make a major increase in the allocation of the program, expanding it from $2.4 million to $3.5 million. • Staff from the county–funded Working Parents Assistance Program and the state–funded Purchase of Care program are co–located at county governmental offices. The co–location allows the two programs to offer a single phone number for determining which program is appropriate for the family. The co–location is not a complete solution. If a parent inadvertently applies to the incorrect program, that parent will have to start over again and apply to the other program. Over time, the Working Parents Assistance Program would like to apply its broader income eligibility guidelines to the state’s Purchase of Care program and operate them as a single program. OTHER SITES WITH SIMILAR STRATEGIES Austin, Texas; New York City, and Seattle, Washington, are among the localities that use local tax revenues to subsidize child care for families above state-determined income eligibility levels. CONTACT Kathleen Shapiro, Program Manager Working Parents Assistance Program and Trust Fund Child Care Services Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services 401 Fleet Street Rockville, MD 20850 Phone (240) 777 1161 Fax (240) 777 1153 110
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