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Services:
♦ All foster care, special needs, FAIM
recipients, teen parents and safe homes are priorities on the CCDF Program.
♦ Parental Choice
of Provider who may be a family member, licensed
home or day care center.
♦ Non-Member
working parents will be referred for Montana State Child Care Funds through
the Great Falls Community Help Line.
♦ Maximum child
care rates payable are current Montana
State daily & hourly rates. If providers charge more, the applicant
must pay the difference.
♦ Provider
registration through the CCDF program is necessary and includes signed statements
of NO Drug/Alcohol use in home, health & safety checklist, Mandatory TB
test, First Aid and CPR and a current physical. Provider training and
orientation.
♦ The CCDF office
is a Resource and Referral Office to all parents and will assist parents
with finding child care, child care payment program or will be an advocate
for State Child Care Programs.
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Guidelines:
♦ All providers will have a Criminal Background
check completed, if any criminal activity comes back on the provider, the
provider is not eligible for the CCDF program.
♦ All Co-Payments
must be paid by the fifth (5th) day of each month to their provider or the
CCDF will drop the applicant from the program and will not pay the child
care payment for that month.
♦ All applicants
who do not use child care for a period of two (2) weeks without
notification to the program will be dropped from the CCDF program.
♦ All applicants
must update their income & status every three (3) months or you will be
automatically dropped from the program.
♦ All applicants
must pay their set co-payment amounts every month regardless of how many
hours/days child care is used. If co-payment is not paid the CCDF program
will not pay child care payments.
♦ All home provider’s & licensed centers are subject to review
of records to be in compliance with CCDF.
♦ All applicants
must affirm that all information is true and complete to the best of their
knowledge.
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Documentation Needed
to Sign up for CCDF
♦ Child(ren)’s immunization record(s).
♦ Income
statement (pay stub, FAIM documentation monthly benefits.
♦ Proof of Family
Size: Social Security cards for each family member or Birth Certificate.
♦ Documentation
of work hours or school schedule.
♦ Documentation
of Special needs from Indian Health Service (IHS) or family physician.
♦ Documentation
of Foster Care Placement.
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