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Supportive Services, Inc. – Alternative Payment Program

Alternative Payment Program for Central Valley Families

We support thousands of working families and children in Fresno and surrounding counties by ensuring that working parents have a choice of programs that focus on the needs and educational development of children.

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Supportive Services, Inc. Alternative Payment Program is a parental choice child care subsidy program funded by grants from the state and federal government. Parents must meet Title 5 Eligibility and Need Regulations as mandated by the California Department of Education, Early Learning and Care Division (CDE, ELCD).

The program may pay for all or part of the cost of child care for children ages birth through 12 years (children with exceptional needs may be served to age 21). The child care subsidy follows the child, which means that if hours of need change, the family moves, or a child needs a different setting the parent can select a new provider.

As a parental choice program, Supportive Services, Inc. child care subsidy program believes parents are best able to choose and evaluate child care for their own children. Our goal is to assist parents in finding a wide range of services available by referring them to our local resource and referral agency, Central Valley Children’s Services Network, at (559) 456-1100.

Eligibility for subsidized services is based primarily on a family’s income and need for care, with more specific individual criteria for certain programs.

We are all about parental choice. As a parental choice program, Supportive Services, Inc. child care subsidy program believes parents are best able to choose and evaluate child care for their own children.

Supportive Services, Inc. reimburses providers based on the Regional Market Rates (RMR) set by the CDE/ELCD. Participating Providers must meet all requirements.

GET ASSISTANCE

STEP 1

Apply for the Waiting List

Visit the agency to pick up an application, or use this download link

Return your completed application to the agency.

Your application must include required income documentation.

You will receive a letter advising you of your eligibility determination.

Incomplete applications will be returned for more information.

Report changes in income, family size, or your child care needs.

STEP 2

Gather Your Documentation

While you are awaiting your certification appointment begin gathering the following documents that pertain to your family’s circumstances.

Documentation of Employment of Self Employment

Documentation of Seeking Employment (Job Seek)

Documentation of Vocational Training

Documentation of Child Protective Services

Documentation of Parental Incapacity

Documentation of At Risk of Abuse, Neglect or Exploitation

Documentation of Seeking Permanent Housing

Documentation of Child with Exceptional Needs

STEP 3

Meet With Your Case Worker

When your family has been chosen for program placement you will be given a certification appointment where your need and eligibility will be determined. For your appointment, remember to bring:

Your placement packet along with your checklist of items.

Documentation that provides proof of eligibility.

Documentation that provides proof of need.

Documentation of your family’s size and income as requested in your placement packet.

OUR PARTNERS

We partner with organizations and agencies…

within the community and throughout the state of California to bring needed services to families in the central valley

OUR IMPACT

5607

CHILDREN SERVED

$ 28M

SUBSIDY $’s PROVIDED

2792

FAMILIES ASSISTED

1529

PROVIDERS SUPPORTED

OUR MISSION

Supportive Services, Inc. Alternative Payment Program is a non-profit corporation, organized as a service, research, educational and advocacy agency for child care and the related needs of children and families.

The agency provides assistance on a non-discriminatory basis extending equal treatment and access to services for children, parents and providers of child care without regard to race, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability. The agency welcomes and accommodates children with exceptional needs.

Simplified Summary

This page explains the services that Support Services, Inc offers, and the other agencies they work with throughout Fresno counties and the state of California.

Head Start 0 to 5

In January of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared The War on Poverty in his State of the Union speech. Shortly thereafter, Sargent Shriver took the lead in assembling a panel of experts to develop a comprehensive child development program that would help communities meet the needs of disadvantaged preschool children. Among these experts were Dr. Robert Cooke, a pediatrician at John Hopkins University, and Dr. Edward Zigler, a professor of psychology and director of the Child Study Center at Yale University.

Part of the government’s thinking on poverty was influenced by new research on the effects of poverty, as well as on the impacts of education. This research indicated an obligation to help disadvantaged groups, compensating for inequality in social or economic conditions. Head Start was designed to help break the cycle of poverty, providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs. A key tenet of the program established that it be culturally responsive to the communities served, and that the communities have an investment in its success through the contribution of volunteer hours and other donations as nonfederal share.

In the summers of 1965 and 1966, the Office of Economic Opportunity launched an eight-week Project Head Start. In 1969, under the Nixon administration, Head Start was transferred from the Office of Economic Opportunity to the Office of Child Development in the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Dr. Edward Zigler, who had served on the planning committee to launch Project Head Start, was appointed Director of the Office of Child Development. In 1977, under the Carter administration, Head Start began bilingual and bicultural programs in about 21 states. Seven years later, in October 1984 under the Reagan administration, Head Start’s grant budget exceeded $1 billion. In September of 1995, under the Clinton administration, the first Early Head Start grants were given and in October of 1998, Head Start was reauthorized to expand to full-day and full-year services.

Head Start was most recently reauthorized again in 2007, under the George W. Bush administration, with several provisions to strengthen Head Start quality. These include alignment of Head Start school readiness goals with state early learning standards, higher qualifications for the Head Start teaching workforce, State Advisory Councils on Early Care and Education in every state, and increased program monitoring, including a review of child outcomes and annual financial audits. The Head Start training and technical assistance system was redesigned to support programs through six National Centers and a state-based system to ensure success.

The statute also included a provision that regulations be promulgated to move programs from an indefinite project period to a five-year grant cycle. Programs would be required to demonstrate they are of high quality or a competitive grant opportunity would be made available within the community. In 2009, under the Obama administration, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act added more than 64,000 slots for Early Head Start and Head Start programs.

Head Start has served more than 30 million children since 1965, growing from an eight-week demonstration project to include full day/year services and many program options. Currently, Head Start is administered by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the Department of Health and Human Services. Head Start serves over a million children and their families each year in urban and rural areas in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U. S. territories, including American Indian, Alaska Native, and Migrant and Seasonal communities.

For more information on the history of Head Start, please visit: Head Start History | ECLKC (hhs.gov)

FRESNO EOC HEAD START HISTORY

Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission (Fresno EOC) Head Start Preschool has successfully provided comprehensive child development services for low-income preschool children and their families since 1965. Services include Education, Nutrition, Health, Family Services, Parental Engagement and Inclusion Services. Expansion of services to children ages 0 to 3 years old was implemented in 1996 through the Early Head Start Program.

Fresno EOC Head Start Preschool currently serves approximately 2,112 Head Start and 478 Early Head Start children throughout Fresno County in over 38 centers and 13 home-based areas.

Annual Reports are available upon request.

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