1970-75

  • Rosenberg Foundation funds SF and Bananas for Information & Referral

  • 11 R&Rs are funded

  • Founders coordinate informal Network Meetings

  • “Family Day Care Project” begins the “resource” side of R&R

1975-1980

  • Doe Vs. Obledo Lawsuit filed regarding: state licensing regulation discrimination of family homes

  • Alternative Payment Programs and FCCHENs are funded under AB 3059 (Foran)

  • Annual Retreats begin

  • R&Rs agree on Standardized Data Collection

  • SB 364 (Sieroty) expands infant/toddler services. Core services of R&Rs defined and changed the name from Information and Referral to R&R

  • 28 R&Rs are funded

1980 - 1985

  • The Network is Founded

  • R&Rs in every county! AB 3138 (Statham).

  • Produced & Distributed Child Care Choices

  • Child Care Initiative Project (CCIP) is launched as a public/private partnership

1985-1990

  • Family Day Care Handbook developed

  • Annual Retreat becomes Annual Conference

  • Making a Difference - Ages & Stages developed in English, Spanish & Chinese

  • Partners in Prevention trains 9000 providers in Child Abuse Prevention

  • CCIP turns 5, 10,300 new spaces created

  • R&Rs partner to support families and child care providers after major earthquakes

  • TrustLine Chaptered in 1986, AB 3608 Agnos. Pilot began in 1989

1990-1995

  • Federal Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funded and implemented

  • 800 KIDS-7193 created to search for local R&Rs across California

  • 300 Referral Counselors trained in diversity techniques

  • First Worthy Wage Day

  • CCIP Expands for Spanish Speaking Families

  • Consumer Education Child Care Information Kit

  • Parent Voices begins

1995-2000

  • Working Mothers honors California - top 10 states for child care

  • Child Care Portfolio launches - data noted in major newspapers and media

  • Federal Welfare Reform and Prop 10 (First 5 funding) passes and launches

  • CCIP became permanent in Ed Code 8215 in 2001

  • Look Who’s Coming to Family Child Care, “Cuatro Pasos”

  • AB212/CARES is introduced and funded, supporting professional development of providers

2000-2005

  • Annual Conference at Asilomar attracts more than 600 R&R staff

  • CCIP recruitment and training resulted in 37,820 new child care slots statewide since 1985. Every R&R receives a CCIP contract. 28 projects in 2001 to 71 in 2003, with added federal funding.

  • Tribal Work Group Committee is established, disseminating a resource guide, Tribal Communities in California Building Collaborations.

  • Funding from CDE launches the Growing, Learning & Caring (GLC) project (ends 2011)

  • CCIP Retention survey shows 91% was a key factor in staying in business.

  • Landmark study of brain research, “From Neurons to Neighborhoods” by the National Research Council, links the effect of environments - family, child care, community – within which the child grows.

2005-2010

  • CCIP helps create more than 5,500 new licensed family child care slots statewide.

  • More than 2,200 licensed family child care providers, including more than 1,000 Spanish speakers, attended CCIP training. Over 5,200 license-exempt providers attended CECT/GLC training in 2007-2008, for a total of 8,431 hours of training.

  • Country goes through a “Great Recession” due to market decline in 2008-2009

  • Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed Stage 3 in 2010. Parent Voices Oakland sues CDE and DSS and win.

  • West Ed study shows CCIP is the predominate entry point to CA Quality Improvement system

  • The Network hosts and coordinates TouchPoints partnership through GLC and various training of trainers/facilitators

  • One of 7 states to Pilot/implement Eco-healthy child care, that eventually went national

2010-2015

  • Patty Siegel retires as ED of Network after 31 yrs

  • Linda Asato becomes the Network’s 2nd Executive Director

  • Governor Brown threatens to dismantle the child care system in January 2012 due to lingering economic troubles.Child Care loses $1 billion and 100,000 slots

  • The Network reached 100% statewide membership, unifying/strengthening research/data collection and advocacy efforts across CA

  • After 25 years of holding the Network’s Annual Conference at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, the Network holds the 2012 conference in Sacramento, and hosts the first Joint Conference with CAPPA in 2013

  • TrustLine expands to require caregivers in Ancillary Child Care Centers, i.e. Health Clubs, Gyms, stores, to be registered on TrustLine.

  • Evaluation of R&Rs (by WestEd) shows R&Rs leverage over $7 million additional funding with their base funding

  • Professional Development Quality Improvement guidance for R&R staff trainers created, used in staff recruitment and professional development and hiring community trainers

  • Federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) reauthorized. New requirements to improve health and safety of child care programs, including safe sleep practices and to better support stability for families and child care providers

  • California ECE advocacy groups join together, creating the foundation for creating the ECE Coalition to coordinate budget advocacy and policy priorities as a field

  • Early Childhood is widely recognized as a pivotal period of growth that begins before birth through age 8

2015-2020

  • R&R Standards Workgroup recommends Membership adopt the Strengthening Families approach, which is then included in statewide QRIS.

  • Workforce Registry goes statewide

  • AB 2036 (Lopez) Online Child Care Job Posting Services, like Sittercity.com, need to provide information about TrustLine to California visitors to their sites and disclose their background check service

  • SB 89 begins the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program, launching a time limited child care bridge for foster children, and trauma informed training and coaching for providers through R&Rs. It later expanded to have Navigators to support families in securing subsidized child care.

  • Evidence informed FFN Play & Learn model (Kaleidoscope) helps bring back support for FFN caregivers via pilot with R&Rs

  • Network launches statewide ECE Shared Resources website with vision to offer optional customization by county

  • Federal Preschool Development (PDG) awarded to CA

  • $5 million over 2 years for CCIP expansion, including Health and Safety and GLC curricula and communications toolkit. CCIP expands to serve all home based providers.

  • AB 2960 (Thurmond) establishes an online parent portal for child care.

  • $2.5 million to design statewide consumer education website (MyChildCarePlan.org)

  • R&R Counselor Training Modules on CA Early Childhood Online (CECO)

  • MCCP Database created by R&Rs, prototyped and officially launched in 2017. By 2022, 2/3rd of the R&Rs used MCCP as their primary referral solution.

  • Health and Safety scripts created and videos available online to meet CCDF health requirements.

  • Won annual inspections in the budget from once every 5 years (worst in the nation), eventually to annual

2020-2025

  • Global pandemic – COVID-19 crisis. March 4, CA issues State of Emergency and stay at home orders

  • Over 12,000 parents complete a survey on the impact of Covid-19 on their child care choice.

  • $10 bil of Federal Covid-19 relief funds for child care brings $1 billion to CA

  • R&Rs and Network shift and develop online, asynchronous training, videos and resources, some offered on CECO, in English and Spanish.

  • Network secures and coordinates distribution of emergency childcare backpacks with PPE and critical supplies for homebase, childcare providersFirst TIC Virtual conference.

  • Interactive data tool is created on the Network website with Portfolio data since 1997, and with the ability to compare counties and produce its own analysis.

  • R&R infrastructure distributes PPE Funds and COVID-19 Emergency Supplies to child care via R&Rs and distributes Vaccine Codes to child care essential workers

  • AB 378 allows child care unionization and representation of subsidized home based providers. Child Care Providers United win collective negotiation for providers.

  • Congress passes the American Rescue Plan Act designating $39 billion towards child care

  • Early Childhood Development Act of 2020 authorized the transfer of early childhood programs including R&Rs and APPs from CDE to CDSS

  • $10 million each of two years for R&R contractors. Agencies engage in unprecedented recommendation to more equitably distribute state R&R funds to contractors

  • $25 million over two years for CCIP. County by county needs assessment, and translation of key materials into eight additional languages expands linguistic access, establishes a statewide outreach and marketing campaign

  • New background check database named Guardian captures and stores all background check information for licensees, TrustLine and the Home Care Registry

  • First R&R Impact Project report created

  • Parent Voices expands independently from the Network. Restructures and launches as its own statewide entity.

  • Historic wins for home based providers with Child Care Health Benefit and Retirement Fund by Child Care Providers United.

  • Expanded MCCP database to include FFN caregivers and CCIP capacity building efforts/data

  • Implemented a shared services project to support sustainable FCCH home business practices with a focus on food security

  • Network partners with the Language Learning Project (polls/FUSD) to adapt and scale training for supporting dual language learners with home-base providers (e.g. creating videos, designing a TOT structure to support R&R capacity building, translate resources)