Code of Massachusetts Regulations
606 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE
Title 606 CMR 10.00 - Child Care Financial Assistance
Section 10.07 - Young Parent Child Care Services Program
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
Subject to appropriation, young parents may be eligible to receive child care financial assistance through the young parent child care services program, as described in 606 CMR 10.07(1) through (6), and provided they meet the requirements of the general provisions for child care financial assistance described in 606 CMR 10.03, unless otherwise noted:
(1) Application and Referral. Young parents may apply for child care financial assistance at a CCRR, a program contracted to provide young parent child care services, a local DTA office, or any other location authorized by EEC. At the time of application, the young parent must complete a child care application and fee agreement on forms provided or approved by EEC. At the initial authorization, the young parent must submit documentation that verifies their identity, income, service need, residence, and family relationships, in accordance with EEC regulation and policy. At reauthorization, the young parent must only submit documentation that verifies their income and service need, and shall provide documentation verifying their residency only if it has changed since their last reauthorization. If a young parent has a current child care referral from DTA under 606 CMR 10.05(1)(a), the referral is sufficient documentation of their income, service need, residence, and family relationships.
(2) Referral and Waitlist. Based on availability, parents will be referred to and/or enrolled, subject to an eligibility determination, in the young parent child care services program. Parents unable to enroll in the young parent child care services program, due to a lack of available funding, will be placed on a child care financial assistance waitlist.
(3) Eligibility Criteria. Young parents seeking access to child care financial assistance through the young parent child care services program must comply with the financial and service need requirements of 606 CMR 10.04, unless excepted in 606 CMR 10.07(3)(a) and (b).
(4) Eligibility Periods. Eligibility is determined for periods not less than 12 months, subject to the family's continued eligibility for child care financial assistance. Family Access Administrators shall notify young parents no fewer than two times that their eligibility period is ending. At least one of these notifications shall be in writing and shall be provided no fewer than 60 days prior to the end of the eligibility period.
(5) Denial or Termination of Services. All denials or terminations related to the young parent child care services program shall comply with 606 CMR 10.10 and 10.11.
(6) Continuity of Care. Parent(s) seeking to continue eligibility upon the closure of the family's young parent child care services may continue to receive child care financial assistance through the income eligible child care program provided that the family meets the requirements set forth in 606 CMR 10.03 and 10.04 and any unpaid fee balance or disqualification period under 606 CMR 10.12(1) through (5) is resolved.
