CAPPA's Mission

CAPPA's Mission is to advocate for, and facilitate family access to, quality child care, supportive services, and early education and development programs.

CAPPA's Values

- Quality: Empowering Alternative Payment agencies to strive for quality and integrity in their delivery of child development services.

- Representation: Helping our members maximize the positive outcomes they have on family well-being.

- Respect: Respecting the needs and commitments of our members to families, children and providers.

- Service: Serving our member agencies as they serve their communities by being accessible and effective.

- Collaboration: Building relationships with an emphasis on listening, candor and confidentiality.

- Diversity: Honoring the diversity of our members and their programs whether large or small, expert or novice, rural or urban, center-based, alternative payment or Resource and Referral

- Communication: To actively communicate with the CAPPA membership, sister organization and vested stakeholders to; provide information, request input and clearly define concerns/issues with members.

CAPPA Policy Principles

  • In the best interest of children and families, CAPPA supports appropriate and realistic reimbursement for all child care services.
  • In the best interest of children and families, CAPPA supports children being placed in the safest and highest quality environment.
    • All publicly funded providers, exempt from licensing, shall be Trustline-cleared.
    • CAPPA supports professional training for the purpose of quality.

  • In the best interest of children and families, CAPPA supports working with CDE to continue streamlining funding and reduce contract barriers in order to create an effective delivery system that values superior operations, program integrity, quality, and efficiency in the California child care delivery system.

  • In the best interest of children and families, CAPPA promotes a collaborative educational process to maximize and initiate policies that support the entire child care and development field.

  • In the best interest of children and families, CAPPA supports increasing capacity for underserved populations of children including:
    • Infants/Toddlers
    • Children with special needs
    • Foster care children
    • Low-income working families (non-CalWORKs)

  • In the best interest of children and families, CAPPA supports preschool.
    • Preschool must include using APP systems to increase access for all families to quality child care.
    • Preschool must provide wraparound care to ensure parental choice and access to full day child care and preschool services.