Definitions of Important Terms and Phrases
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Adjustable monthly income
“Adjusted monthly income” means total countable income as defined in subdivision (q) below, minus verified child support payments paid by the parent whose child is receiving child development services, excluding the non-countable income listed below:
- Earnings of a child under age 18 years;
- Loans;
- Grants or scholarships to students for educational purposes other than any balance available for living costs;
- Food stamps or other food assistance;
- Earned Income Tax Credit or tax refund;
- GI Bill entitlements, hardship duty pay, hazardous duty pay, hostile fire pay, or imminent danger pay;
- Adoption assistance payments received pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16115 et seq.;
- Non-cash assistance or gifts;
- All income of any individual counted in the family size who is collecting federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or State Supplemental Program (SP) benefits;
- Insurance or court settlements including pain and suffering and excluding lost wages and punitive damages;
- Reimbursements for work-required expenses such as uniforms, mileage, or per diem expenses for food and lodging;
- Business expenses for self-employed family members;
- When there is no cash value to the employee, the portion of medical and/or dental insurance documented as paid by the employer and included in gross pay; and
- Disaster relief grants or payments, except any portion for rental assistance or unemployment.
At risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation
“At risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation” means a child who has been identified by a legally qualified professional in a legal, medical, social services agency, or emergency shelter as being at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation, and referred for child care and development services.
CalWORKs cash aid recipient
“CalWORKs cash aid recipient” means an adult or minor teen parent who receives cash aid from the county welfare department for the CalWORKs or Cal-Learn program. Precludes the use of the certificate for sectarian child care services if freely chosen by the parent.
Child Protective Services
“Child protective services” means protective services provided to children through the county welfare department.
Children with exceptional needs
“Children with exceptional needs” means infants and toddlers, from birth to thirty-six (36) months of age, inclusive, who have been determined eligible for early intervention services pursuant to the California Early Intervention Services Act (Title 14 (commencing with Section 95000) of the Government Code) and its implementing regulations, and children three (3) years of age or older who have been determined to be eligible for special education and related services by an individualized education program (IEP) team according to the special education requirements contained in Part 30 (commencing with Section 56000), and meeting eligibility criteria described in Section 56026 and sections 56333 to 56338, inclusive, of the Education Code and sections 3030 and 3031 of the California Code of Regulations, Title 5. These children have an active individualized education program or individualized family service plan (IFSP), and are receiving early intervention services or appropriate special education and services. These children ages birth to twenty-one (21) years, inclusive, may be autistic, developmentally disabled, hard-of-hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, orthopedically impaired, other health impaired, deaf-blind, multihandicapped or children with specific learning disabilities, who require the special attention of adults in a child care setting.
Diversion services
“Diversion services” means one-time assistance services provided by the county welfare department, either in cash or in non-cash services, to an otherwise CalWORKs eligible family, when the county welfare department determines that such assistance will help the family avoid becoming a CalWORKs cash aid recipient.
Former CalWORKs cash aid recipient
“Former CalWORKs cash aid recipient” means an adult individual or minor teen parent who has previously received and is no longer receiving cash aid under the CalWORKs or Cal-Learn programs.
Four-year-old children
“Four-year-old children” means those children who will have their fourth birthday on or before December 2 of the fiscal year in which they are enrolled in a state preschool and preschool full-day, prekindergarten and family literacy and prekindergarten and family literacy full-day program.
Homeless
“Homeless” means a person or family that lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence and has a primary night time residence that is:
1. A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter, transitional housing, or homeless support program designed to provide temporary living accommodations; or
2. A public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
Legally qualified professional
“Legally qualified professional” means a person licensed under applicable laws and regulations of the State of California to perform legal, medical, health or social services for the general public.
Limited-English-proficient
“Limited-English-proficient” means children who are unable to benefit fully from an English-only child care and development program as a result of either of the following:
- having used a language other than English when they first began to speak; or
- having a language other than English predominantly or exclusively spoken at home.
Migrant agricultural worker family
“Migrant agricultural worker family” means a family that has earned at least 50 percent (50%) of its total gross income from employment in fishing, agriculture or agriculturally-related work during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of application for child care and development services.
Parent
“Parent” means a biological parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, foster parent, caretaker relative, legal guardian, domestic partner of the parent as defined in Family Code Section 297, or any other adult living with a child who has responsibility for the care and welfare of the child.
Parental incapacity
“Parental incapacity” means the temporary or permanent inability of the child’s parent(s) to provide care and supervision of the child(ren) for all or part of the day due to a physical or mental health condition.
School age
“School age” means children enrolled in kindergarten through 9th grade. A child is considered to be enrolled in kindergarten on June 1 of each year if he or she will be four years nine months of age by September 1 of the same year.
Stage 2
“Stage 2” means the second stage of CalWORKs child care services. Stage 2 child care services are administered by the California Department of Education through contracts with Alternative Payment program providers pursuant to Education Code Section 8353. Stage 2 child care begins when the county welfare department determines that a CalWORKs family is stable and transfers the family to a Stage 2 child care contractor for child care services, or a family applies and is found eligible for Stage 2 services.
Stage 3
“Stage 3” means the third stage of CalWORKs child care services. Stage 3 child care services are administered by the California Department of Education through contracts with Alternative Payment program providers pursuant to Education Code Section 5384. Stage 3 child care begins when a CalWORKs family receiving Stage 1 or Stage 2 child care services has fully utilized the family’s twenty-four (24) months of eligibility to Stage 1 and Stage 2 child care services following the date the adult stopped receiving cash assistance.
Three-year-old children
“Three-year-old children” mean those children who will have their third birthday on or before December 2 of the fiscal year in which they are enrolled in a state preschool and preschool full-day program.
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