Crystal Stairs Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2009 to Jun 30, 2010

Signed

Apr 29, 2011

Return Version

2009v1.7

Gross Receipts

$124,758,077

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Child Care Assistance Program - Under contracts with the California Department of Education's Child Development Division (CDD), we administer a child care payment program for low-income families who are cycling off welfare (CalWORKs) as well as those who are not in the welfare system. The goal of the program is to promote and support family economic self-sufficiency by paying for child care so that parents can work, seek work or attend school/training. The program also provides child care payment assistance to families referred by public and private agencies because their children are "at risk" of abuse or neglect. We certify the family's eligibility for child care, assist them to look for and select child care, provide referrals to other supportive services as needed, and make monthly payments for child care providers they select to care for their children. We enrolled 10,088 families with a total of 18,563 children from birth to 12 years old, and made monthly payments to 6,892 licensed and license-exempt child care providers for their services to enrolled children.

Activity 3

Child Care Resource & Referral Program - Under contracts with the California Department of Education's Child Development Division (CDD), we operate a Child Care Resource & Referral Service (R&R). The R&R provides free referrals to licensed child care to families living in South Los Angeles and the cities of Inglewood, Lawndale, Hawthorne and Gardena. R&R Specialists help families find care that meets their needs in terms of location, price, hours of operation, their child's age and special needs and other factors. Parents also receive information on how to identify high-quality child care. Families can also get lists of child care providers 24/7 through our web site. To assure that parents have child care choices, we maintain an electronic database of licensed child care centers and family child care homes. We outreach to add new providers and update providers' records quarterly. We also publish a parent/provider newsletter three times a year, have a Provider Resource Library, co-sponsor a Provider Professional Development Conference with two neighboring R&R agencies, and conduct special projects (e.g., accreditation, special needs care, infant/toddler training). We provided 3,321 requests for referrals, listed 1,545 providers on our database, and gave training and technical assistance to 1,117 providers.

Filer

EIN

95-3510046