Page 236

Child Care Scholarship Policy Manual 236

23. 2.3 Child Care Assistance Requirements – removed language Once a child has been determined eligible for child care assistance, the child is eligible for 24. 2.3.1 Temporary Changes – Reworded to read exactly as written in the CCDF regulations. 25. 2.3.2 Non-Temporary Changes – Updated the language from “can be” to “may be” 26. 2.3.3 Use of the 10-day Termination Policy – Removed Child on no connection report (never connected to a child care provider), Child on excessive absence report, Child no longer needs care or stops attending facility and parent voluntarily withdraws. Added client is determined to have intentionally committed fraud. 27. 2.3.4 Added section - When a Client Wants to Voluntarily Withdraw or Indicates Services are No Longer Needed -If a parent indicates that they want to voluntarily withdraw from the Child Care Scholarship Program or indicates that no services are needed, the child care database will be updated with a status code 20- Services on Hold Per Client and the memo field documented to reflect that the parent indicated that services were no longer needed or wants to voluntarily withdraw. Services are not to be terminated. Any connected services should be ended with proper notice to the child care provider and the provider notified of the ending of the services. The case will remain in the 20- Services on Hold Per Client status for the remainder of the client’s 12-month eligibility. At any point, if the client comes back in during that eligibility period, the status may be updated to 57-Active and the client may resume services until the ending of their eligibility period. 28. 2.4 Specific Child Care Eligibility Categories – Added a section that defines the agencies definition of “children who receive or need to receive protective services: The Child Care Scholarship Program extends eligibility to specific populations of children, otherwise not eligible, by including them in the agency’s definition of “children who receive or need to receive protective services”. The categories identified under protective services for the purpose of not requiring a co-pay and/or (one or both) not requiring a parent to meet the work, school, or training criteria. Those categories are: children in foster care, kinship care, under court supervision or any child welfare category. Children in head start programs, families experiencing homelessness, and families affected by natural disasters. Additionally, families that qualify under dual language learners, children eligible for the 4K program to include siblings (4K+Siblings), First Steps evidence-based program initiative, child care after adoption (AdoptCC), Kinship Guardianship (KinGap), child care after reunification (Reunify CC), CCDF-Caretaker Relative (CCDF-CR), Dual Language Learners, Family Literacy, Head Start, SNAP E&T, Starlight and Criminal Domestic Violence. 29. 2.5 Applicant Child Care (ACC) – Removed entire section as we are no longer doing ACC. 30. 2.5.1 Application Process for Applicant Child Care – Removed entire section as we are no longer doing ACC. 31. 2.5.2 Removed entire section as we are no longer doing ACC. 32. Section 2.6 TANF changed to Section 2.5 33. Section 2.6.1 CARES changed to 2.5.1