DCYF Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) Stabilization Grant

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As a result of the Federal American Rescue Plan Act, funds are to be used to stabilize, support, and grow the diverse early learning workforce in a way that rebuilds a stronger child care system and expands access to affordable high-quality care.

Funds will be available to child care providers in the form of:

Licensed Child Care Stabilization Grant

OR

Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) Stabilization Grant

Who is eligible to apply for this grant?

License-exempt FFN providers who have served at least one child on subsidy in four of the last six months

OR

two of the last three months and claim for subsidy through the Social Service Payment System (SSPS) at time of application.

More information about eligibility criteria and prioritization can be found in the DCYF FFN Stabilization Grant Frequently Asked Questions.

FAQs are in English | Spanish | Somali (CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ABOVE)

What is the amount of this grant?

The FFN Stabilization Grant consists of:

Program Amount + Add-Ons

Program Amount
FFN Providers will receive a program amount of $750.

Verifiable Add-Ons
Providers who meet certain verifiable criteria may be eligible to receive an additional “add-on” amount on top of their program amount.

These verifiable add-on amounts are stackable, and each add $250 to the total grant amount.

Operating in Child Care Deserts

Serving or located in Communities of Color

Serving or located in marginalized, low-income communities

Supporting racial equity

Located in area with high COVID impact

How does a provider apply for a grant?

CLICK ABOVE ON “VISIT WEBSITE”

Seattle Relief Fund

SEATTLE ONLY

The Seattle Relief Fund is $16 million of funding for direct cash assistance to Seattle’s most vulnerable low-income residents and their households who have been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Application and payment timeline
Awards will be $1,000 – $3,000 depending on household size. You should only submit one application per household.

1. Application Opens
Application will be open for 3 weeks, from Monday, October 25, 2021, to Monday, November 15, 2021 at 11:59 pm.

2. Application Review
Applications will be reviewed for 2 weeks, from November 16, 2021 to November 29, 2021.

3. Decision and Payments
Decisions will be made from November 29, 2021 to December 6, 2021 and payments will be sent after December 9, 2021.

One-Time $1,500 Financial Assistance for Family, Friend, and Neighbor Caregivers Living in King County, Washington.

With funding from King County, Child Care Resources is offering one-time $1,500 financial assistance to 250 Family, Friend, and Neighbor caregivers who live in King County, Washington.

Financial assistance will be made to caregivers with low incomes who are currently taking care of at least one child ages birth – 12 years for 10 or more hours a week.

The application deadline is October 25, 2021.

Tap on VISIT WEBSITE to apply online.

For more information tap on CLICK HERE TO OPEN RELATED DOCUMENT.

Flyers available in the following languages below:

English | ኣማርኛ | Español | 普通话 | العربية | Tiếng Việt | 한국인 | دری | |Kajin Majol | ትግርኛ | Somali

You could qualify for free health insurance if you collected unemployment in 2021 Deadline for enrollment is Aug. 15,2021.

“But this is the magic button. If you claimed and received any unemployment this year,(2021), you just have to click yes, and then continue, and it will tell you how much your credit will be towards your health insurance per month,” McCalanahan said.

Even if you’re working again — if you received unemployment sometime this year,(2021), you could qualify for free or nearly free coverage. Starting Thursday,(jULY1,2021), subsidies available through the Affordable Care Act were authorized by the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, which was enacted in March 2021 by President Joe Biden.

Deadline for enrollment is Aug. 15,2021 and benefits will last until the end of the 2021 year.

Dr. Carolyn McCalanahan says the process to apply is simple. Just go to the Healthcare.gov website, where you’ll answer questions about where you live, your age, gender, health conditions — if any — and information about your income.

TO APPLY,CLICK ON “VISIT WEBSITE” .

Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Obama health law.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Obama era health care law, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans.

The law’s major provisions include protections for people with pre-existing health conditions, a range of no-cost preventive services and the expansion of the Medicaid program that insures lower-income people, including those who work in jobs that don’t pay much or provide health insurance

BELOW are some of the U.S, States who LOST their lawsuit to immediately end OBAMACARE.
Alabama Arkansas Arizona Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Louisiana Maine Mississippi Missouri Nebraska North Dakota South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah West Virginia Wisconsin.

(A coalition of 20 U.S. states sued the federal government to end Obamacare)

Important changes to the Child Tax Credit will help many families get advance payments of the credit starting the summer of 2021.

The IRS will pay half the total credit amount in advance monthly payments beginning July 15.

You will claim the other half when you file your 2021 income tax return. These changes apply to tax year 2021 only.

To qualify for advance Child Tax Credit payments, you — and your spouse, if you filed a joint return — must have:

Filed a 2019 or 2020 tax return and claimed the Child Tax Credit on the return; or
Given us your information in 2020 to receive the Economic Impact Payment using the Non-Filers: Enter Payment Info Here tool; and

A main home in the United States for more than half the year (the 50 states and the District of Columbia) or file a joint return with a spouse who has a main home in the United States for more than half the year; and

A qualifying child who is under age 18 at the end of 2021 and who has a valid Social Security number; and
Made less than certain income limits.

We’ll use information you provided earlier to determine if you qualify and automatically enroll you for advance payments. You do not need to take any additional action to get advance payments.

Check back later for tools to help you check your eligibility and manage and unenroll from payments.

Non-Filers: HOW TO Submit Your Information. Tap on “VISIT WEBSITE” in the Community SDoH Alert! and follow the instructions.

If you aren’t required to file a tax return and haven’t given us your information already, you will need to give us some basic information for the Child Tax Credit.

Child Tax Credit Non-filer Sign-up Tool; Who Should Use This Tool

Use this tool to report your qualifying children born before 2021 if you:

Are not required to file a 2020 tax return, didn’t file one and don’t plan to; and

Have a main home in the United States for more than half of the year.

Also, if you did not get the full amounts of the first and second Economic Impact Payment, you may use this tool if you:

Are not required to file a 2020 tax return, didn’t file and don’t plan to, and

Want to claim the 2020 Recovery Rebate Credit and get your third Economic Impact Payment.

Who is Eligible?

To be eligible for funeral assistance, you must meet these conditions:

The death must have occurred in the United States, including the U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia.

The death certificate must indicate the death was attributed to COVID-19.

The applicant must be a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or qualified alien who incurred funeral expenses after January 20, 2020.

There is no requirement for the deceased person to have been a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or qualified alien.

If you had COVID-19 funeral expenses, we encourage you to keep and gather documentation. Types of information should include:

An official death certificate that attributes the death directly or indirectly to COVID-19 and shows that the death occurred in the United States, including the U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia.

Funeral expenses documents (receipts, funeral home contract, etc.) that includes the applicant’s name, the deceased person’s name, the amount of funeral expenses, and the dates the funeral expenses happened.

Proof of funds received from other sources specifically for use toward funeral costs. We are not able to duplicate benefits received from burial or funeral insurance, financial assistance received from voluntary agencies, government agencies, or other sources.

How Funds are Received?

If you are eligible for funeral assistance you will receive a check by mail, or funds by direct deposit, depending on which option you choose when you apply for assistance.

Have you received an invite?
If you have received an email or text invitation, from your landlord, you have already been pre-registered. You may now apply for rental assistance using the link from your invitation. If you are expecting an email invitation, please check your junk and spam folders for an email from DCHSRentalAssistance@kingcounty.gov.

What you will need
Your email or text invitation link
Basic information about all household members
Evidence of income for all adults (18+) in the household
Evidence of financial hardship due to COVID-19
Evidence of past due rent
To read and agree to the Tenant Release of Information for EPRAP – shown below
If you haven’t received an invite…
You may pre-register to be included in the tenant selection pool. You must meet the household eligibility requirements below to pre-register.

Tenant selection pool
Each week, we will randomly select registered tenants to participate in the program. The number selected will vary based on service providers’ capacity. Weekly selections will continue until all EPRAP funds are disbursed.

King County is also operating the City of Seattle’s tenant selection pool. Until the City’s funds are disbursed, Seattle residents will have two chances to be selected each week; first in the Seattle selection process, and secondly in the wider King County selection process.

Once you register, you can sign back into this website at any time to check your status. If you are selected, one of our contracted community-based organizations will send you information about next steps via text and/or email message in your preferred language.

Household eligibility
An “eligible household” is defined as a renter household where at least one or more individuals meets the following criteria:

Residence within the King County geographical area
A lease; or proof of regular recurring rent payments
Household income at or below 50% of Area Median Income; households can use 2020 income or current income to prove eligibility;
Median family income 50% Income limits* ($) by number of persons in family.
* Seattle – Bellevue, WA HUD Metro FMR Area Median Income Limits
Must prove they are experiencing a financial hardship directly or indirectly due to the COVID-19 outbreak;
Must prove they are at risk of experiencing homelessness or currently experiencing housing instability
Rental assistance provided to an eligible household cannot duplicate any other federally funded rental assistance provided to the household. Eligible households that include an individual who has been unemployed for the 90 days prior to application for assistance and households with income at or below 50% of the area median are to be prioritized for assistance

*US Citizenship is not a requirement under EPRAP assistance. We will not ask for information about immigration status.

Tenant Release of Information for EPRAP
Acknowledgment
I understand that at no point will information about the immigration status of my household members be collected.
I understand that participating agencies will be required to use secure data systems. They will be held accountable for keeping my household’s personal information confidential.
Agreement
I agree to allow King County to share my household’s information with local community-based organizations who will help me further process my application for rental assistance.
I agree to allow King County to use my household’s information to help monitor and/or to conduct research about how EPRAP is working. I understand that in these activities my household’s personal information will always be kept confidential.
I understand that King County is operating a tenant selection pool for the City of Seattle. If selected for the Seattle EPRAP program, King County will share my household’s information with the United Way of King County to further process my application for rental assistance. I also understand that if I am a resident of the City of Seattle, that my information may be used as described in Agreement 1 and 2 above by the City of Seattle.
I understand that the funds provided for rental assistance require that there is no duplication of payment. I agree to inform the Agency assigned to assist me with processing my application, if I have been assisted with rent by any other funding source.
Language Assistance Available.

What We’re Doing?
With $145 million in funding from the Federal Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA), this program will help King County residents by:
Paying past, current, and future rent.
Targeting resources to people in need.

ALSO IFORMATION FROM ;
Dave Upthegrove
King County Councilmember
District 5

COVID-19 Vaccinations Now Open To Everyone 12+

Dear Neighbor,

Following federal approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for 12-15 year old’s, the County will be offering shots for this age group at their sites and working with school districts to schedule vaccination clinics throughout the County.

To locate a vaccine and schedule an appointment, visit Vaccine Locator. Need help? Call the COVID-19 hotline at 1-800-525-0127, then press #. Language assistance is available.

PLEASE LET YOUR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER KNOW IF YOU NEED HELP FILLING OUT THE FORM.

King County received $165 million for rental assistance through the Federal Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA). This funding has strict requirements and guidelines that King County and all partners must follow.

King County is starting the next round of the Eviction Prevention and Rental Assistance Program (EPRAP). The program helps people experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19 at risk of housing instability or homelessness.

King County will launch another round of rental assistance through the Eviction Prevention and Rental Assistance Program in April. Please add your contact information below to be updated about the EPRAP.

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/community-human-services/COVID/eviction-prevention-rent-assistance.aspx

PSE HELP
Maximum Monthly Net Income Limit** Valid 10/1/20—9/30/21

You may qualify for PSE HELP and LIHEAP programs if your net monthly income does not exceed the limits listed in the PDF table ATTACHED.

For PSE HELP and LIHEAP contact your local agency to begin the application process or get help with questions.

Valid 10/1/20—9/30/21

PLEASE TAP ON VIEW WEBSITE TO GET DETAIL INFORMATION ON HOW TO APPLY

Alert
Tip: If you do not qualify for HELP at this time, ask your agency about Weatherization.
*Monthly household income after taxes and other authorized deductions.
**After taxes and other authorized deductions. Other conditions apply. If your situation is different, please call.

Guarantee that No American Has to Choose Between Paying Their Bills and Keeping Themselves and Their Families Safe from COVID-19. In 2019, 43% of American households reported having at least one member with pre-existing conditions, many of whom may have a heightened risk of serious illness or death if they contract COVID. President Biden believes that workers should have the right to safe work environments and that no one should have to choose between their livelihoods and their own or their families’ health. As one of many measures to help keep workers and their families’ safe throughout the pandemic, the President is asking the Department of Labor to consider clarifying that workers have a federally guaranteed right to refuse employment that will jeopardize their health and if they do so, they will still qualify for unemployment insurance.

Please note that home-based businesses are not eligible for a Tech Makeover. However, home-based businesses are eligible for Consulting, Media, and Creative Production.

Apply today. The deadline for your small business application is February 7, 2021.

ELIGIBILITY
You are eligible to apply for this program if your business:

Is at least 51% Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)-owned and operated
Is independently owned and operated
Is registered to conduct business in the US
Has been operating for one or more years
Is located within the Comcast Business or Effective service area footprint

Additional recipients will be chosen quarterly.

Comcast RISE, a multi-year commitment to provide marketing, creative, media, and technology services to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)-owned small businesses.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the Treasury Department, announced that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) re-opened the week of January 11 for new borrowers and certain existing PPP borrowers. To promote access to capital, initially only community financial institutions was able to make First Draw PPP Loans on Monday, January 11, and Second Draw PPP Loans on Wednesday, January 13. The PPP will open to all participating lenders shortly thereafter.

The application is available in English, Amharic, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya.

$500 grants to 200 Family, Friend, and Neighbor caregivers who live within the Seattle city limits.

These grants will be made to low-income caregivers currently taking care of a child or children for 10 or more hours a week.

The application is opened Friday, January 15 – ENDS ON Friday, January 29.

Questions? Please send an email to ffn@childcare.org or call Child Care Resources Provider Line at 1-800-446-1114.

The application attached here is in PDF format which may be printed, completed, and submitted to ffn@chldcare.org.

With funding from the City of Seattle, Child Care Resources is offering one-time $500 grants to 100 Family, Friend, and Neighbor caregivers who live within the Seattle city limits. These grants will be made to low-income caregivers currently taking care of a child or children for 10 or more hours a week.

We will contact you through email once the application becomes available in early January 2021. That email will include links to the application as well as information about which caregivers qualify. The application and information will be available in English, Chinese (simplified), Somali, and Spanish.

2020 Small Business Stabilization Fund for Businesses and Nonprofits Impacted by COVID-19.

YOU MUST Complete AND turn in your Small Business Stabilization Fund application by November 30, 2020, 11:59PM.

The Small Business Stabilization Fund (SBSF) provides $10,000 grants to small businesses and economic opportunity nonprofits throughout Seattle who have been financially impacted by COVID-19.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

With many landlords and tenants hit hard by impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, King County is expecting to face a large number of eviction cases after state and federal moratoria on evictions are lifted. In hopes of reducing the severity of a wave of evictions in the community, the King County Superior Court has established an Eviction Resolution Program (ERP) that will require problem solving steps in situations involving non-payment of rent so that there will be no need to file an eviction case.

The goal of the program is to bring all parties together with trained resolution specialists to explore solutions such as available state and local rental assistance, or achievable payment plans that could help tenants retain their housing and divert many situations from the legal eviction process. The program was developed by the state Superior Court Judges’ Association (SCJA) in partnership with the state Office of Civil Legal Aid.

The objective of the ERP is to:

Bring all parties to the table with the assistance of qualified and trained Eviction Resolution Specialists;
Explore the amount of rent arrears, the current and prospective circumstances of the tenant, the availability of rent and other assistance to cure or partially cure the arrearage;
Discover a range of other terms that might resolve the matter in a way that allows the tenant to retain housing (and avoid the need for filing of an unlawful detainer action)

Eviction Resolution Program (ERP) – King County Superior Court

Right now six counties are participating: King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane, Thurston and Clark.

The program serves as mediation between a tenant facing eviction and landlords. It is specific only to non-payment issues because of the pandemic.

Here’s how it works: Tenants and landlords meet with resolution specialists who can mediate efforts to create repayment plans, resolve disputes and connect with rental assistance programs.

Landlords are required to participate before they can file rent-related evictions. If a renter chooses not to participate in the program, landlords can proceed with rent-related evictions.

COMING SOON !! King County’s Stipend for Workers to Isolate and Quarantine (SWIQ) program WILL PROVIDE direct cash stipends to help eligible workers and their families with expenses when they can’t work during isolation and quarantine. The program WILL provide eligible workers with a one-time stipend to cover some expenses for 2-3-week isolation and quarantine periods.
This program WILL go through December 30, 2020 or until the $3 million in funding is all given out.

Greetings FROM CHILD CARE RESOURCES KING COUNTY
(formal message)
For those FFN caregivers who already applied this weekend, there was an error on the application that displayed a message that the caregiver was denied. We have now corrected that error so please let your caregivers know that if they submitted in an application that we have their information and that they do not need to submit a new application. Thank you so much!

$ 1,000 Grants Available for Family, Friend, and Neighbor Caregivers in King County

With funding from King County, Child Care Resources is offering one-time $1,000 grants to 75 Family, Friend, and Neighbor caregivers who live in King County. These grants will be made to low-income caregivers currently taking care of a child or children for 10 or more hours a week.

The application is open Saturday, October 24 – Sunday, November 8.
The application is available in English, Somali, and Spanish.
Questions? Please send and email to ffn@childcare.org or call Child Care Resources Provider Line at 1-800-446-1114

To support small businesses during the COVID19 pandemic, the Washington State Department of Commerce has developed The Community Small Business Resiliency Grant Program.

Commerce’s intent is to award each eligible applicant the maximum award available up to $10,000, based on the number of applications. HOWEVER, if the award per applicant would be less than $4,000 based on volume of eligible applicants, the applications will be reviewed and scored to determine award.

The Community Small Business Resiliency Grant Program is available to eligible* small businesses licensed in Washington State. Businesses must have been in operation since March 1, 2019 and have no more than 20 employees. Grant funds can be used to cover working capital shortfalls due to COVID-19 hardship.*

IMPORTANT NOTE:
** Businesses that meet ONE or MORE of the following criteria ARE NOT ELIGIBLE:
Established after Mar. 1, 2019.
Had more than 20 payroll employees as of Mar. 1, 2020.
Did not experience a financial loss due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Does not have a valid/current Washington State business license.
Has outstanding compliance or regulatory issues as of Mar. 1st, 2020 with state and federal agencies.
Has been disbarred by the federal government.
Is a licensed marijuana/cannabis operation in Washington State.
Is a K-12 school, college or university, library, non-profit organization, or government entity/agency.
Is actively pursuing a bankruptcy declaration.
Has received more than $5,000 from the Working Washington Small Business Emergency Grant.
Has received funding for the same expenses and not “double-dipping” for claimed expenses (not using other funding received from local, state or federal sources to cover the same expenses)

WHAT IS THE WASHINGTON STATE COVID-19 (Coronavirus) IMMIGRANT RELIEF FUND? As immigrants, we’ve made Washington STATE our home. If you’re an immigrant experiencing hard times because of COVID-19, AND you ARE NOT eligible for federal financial relief OR unemployment insurance, THIS FUND IS FOR YOU!!

Apply for the Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund and receive a $1,000 one-time direct payment (up to $3,000 per household).

If you need help, call 1-844-724-3737 (Mon-Fri, 9AM-9PM).

Remember, there is no cost to apply. If someone asks you to pay something, it is a scam! Report it to relief@immigrantreliefwa.org

After you apply, please make sure to check your email inbox or the junk email folder for your confirmation. You will also get a text message confirmation the day you submit your application. You may log back in and check the status to see if your application is being reviewed and if you are awarded the funding. Please only submit your application one time.

Who can apply
To apply for the fund you must:

Live in Washington State
Be at least 18 years old
Have been significantly affected by the pandemic (such as losing work, being infected by the virus, or caring for a family member who was infected)
Not be eligible to receive federal stimulus dollars or unemployment insurance money due to immigration status.

Applicants must live in or attend school in or work within the Seattle city boundaries.

The Fund provides a one-time direct cash payment of $1,000 for qualifying adults and up to $3,000 for families with children.

The application period is open for three weeks, BEGIN Thursday, October 15, 2020, 9:00 p.m. to November 5, 2020, 11:59 p.m.

IF members of, “OUR”, your community or organization need assistance applying, 20 community partners are available to help applicants over the phone in 41 languages! You can find their contact information here.(206) 727-8515.

The Seattle COVID-19 Disaster Relief Fund for Immigrants is $7,940,000 of funding for direct cash assistance to Seattle’s most vulnerable low-income immigrant residents and their households. This program prioritizes applicants who were ineligible for federal CARES Act Economic Impact Payments (also known as a “coronavirus stimulus check”) and state unemployment insurance based on their immigration.

The Washington State Department of Commerce (DOC) is distributing approximately $100 million in state Corona-virus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to operate a new rent assistance program launched August 1. The DOC will disperse the funding through its existing network of homeless services grantees and organizations serving homeless youth.

The program will:
Focus on preventing evictions by paying up to three months of past due, current, and future rent to landlords for eligible participants.
Address some of the need resulting from the corona-virus pandemic.
Hopes to reduce some of the stress both renters and landlords are facing now and in the future.
Rent assistance is limited to three months and the program ends December 31, 2020.

Funding is expected to begin making its way into communities late this week. Complete program information is located on the

ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY (HCA)
The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is committed to whole-person care, integrating physical health and behavioral health services for better results and healthier residents.

HCA purchases health care for more than 2.5 million Washington residents through Apple Health (Medicaid), the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) Program, the School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB) Program, and the COFA Islander Health Care Program. As the largest health care purchaser in the state, we lead the effort to transform health care, helping ensure Washington residents have access to better health and better care at a lower cost.