Child Care Assistance Program (ဖိသၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အတၢ်မၤစၢၤအတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ

ပဒိၣ်အတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်စၢၤတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲတဖၣ်မၤစၢၤတၢ်ကဟ့ၣ်ပှၤလၢအဟ့ၣ်ဖိသၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်တဖၣ်(လၢတၢ်သ့ၣ်ညါအီၤလၢအဖိးသဲစးဒ်"ပှၤဟ့ၣ်မုၢ်ဆါခီတၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲတဖၣ်")လၢတၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်လၢမိၢ်ပၢ်တဖၣ်,ပှၤကွၢ်ထွဲတၢ်တဖၣ်လၢအဖံးမၤတၢ်မ့တမ့ၢ်ပာ်ဃုာ်လၢတၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤလၢအတုၤထီၣ်ဘးတၢ်ပာ်ပနီၣ်တဖၣ်,အမဲာ်ညါတၢ်လဲၤထီၣ်က့ၤလီၤအတၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်လၢတၢ်လဲၤအကျိၤတဘိစုာ်စုာ်အဂီၢ်လၢအဖိးမံန့ၣ်လီၤ.


High-Quality Child Care Program Survey

NYS OCFS wants to hear from you about what represents quality in child care.  See this flyer for more information (en Espanol)


တၢ်ကြၢးဘၣ်တုၤထီၣ်ထီၣ်ဘး

မၤနီၣ်-  ဖဲကတီၢ်အံၤနမ့ၢ်ဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်တစိၢ်တလီၢ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤ (Temporary Assistance) န့ၣ်,၀ံသးစူၤသမံသမိးဘၣ်တၢ်ဒီးနပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိလၢတၢ်ကဃုသ့ၣ်ညါမ့ၢ်နကြၢးဘၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်လၢတၢ်ကမၢတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤလၢနအိၣ်လၢအပူၤဟ့ၣ်နဖိအတၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အတၢ်လၢာ်ဘူၣ်လၢာ်စ့ၤတဖၣ်ကသ့ၣ်ဧါအဂီၢ်တက့ၢ်.

ဖိသၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်မၤစၢၤတဖၣ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်လၢဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိလၢအဖံးမၤတၢ်လၢအဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်ဘူးလဲထီၣ်ဘး 300% Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (ကီၢ်စဲၣ်စၢဖှိၣ်တၢ်ဖှီၣ်တၢ်ယာ်အပတီၢ်)လၢအ၀ဲသ့ၣ်အဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိအနီၢ်ဂံၢ်လၢအအိၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.

တၢ်ကြၢးဘၣ်တုၤထီၣ်ထီၣ်ဘးအတၢ်သံကွၢ်ရဲၣ်အသီတဖၣ်

စံးဆၢဘၣ်တၢ်သံကွၢ်ရဲၣ်လီၤအဖုၣ်တခါလၢတၢ်ကထံၣ်ဘၣ်မ့ၢ်နဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်ဖိသၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်လၢအပှ့ၤစှၤမ့တမ့ၢ်အပှ့ၤတအိၣ်သ့ဧါ-လၢ 10 မံးနံးမ့တမ့ၢ်စှၤန့ၢ်အန့ၣ်အခါတက့ၢ်! မၤလိအါထီၣ်ဘၣ်ဃး က့ၢ်ဂီၤအသီတခါလၢအဘၣ်တၢ်ဟ့ၣ်အီၤခီဖျိ NYS OCFS န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်

လၢတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤဆူညါဘၣ်ဃးတၢ်ထိၣ်ဒွးနတလါစုာ်စုာ်တၢ်ဟဲနုာ်ခဲလၢာ်ခဲဆ့ (Gross Monthly Income) ၀ံသးစူၤဆီၣ်လီၤဖဲအံၤတက့ၢ်.


This chart shows the income limits that will apply as of June 1st of 2024 and are valid through May 31st of 2025:

SMI06012024

ပဒိၣ်ဟ့ၣ်စၢၤမၤစှၤလီၤတၢ်အပှ့ၤန့ၣ်ဘၣ်သ့ၣ်သ့ၣ်ကအိၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်လၢဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတဖၣ်လၢအ-

  • ပာ်ဃုာ်ပာ်ဂီၢ်လၢတၢ်ကူၣ်ဘၣ်ကူၣ်သ့အတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤလၢအတုၤထီၣ်တၢ်ပာ်ပနီၣ်တခါ
  • ဟံၣ်ဃီတအိၣ်
  • တူၢ်ဘၣ်ဟံၣ်ပူၤဃီပူၤတၢ်စုဆူၣ်ခီၣ်တကး
  • မ့ၢ်မိၢ်ပၢ်(တဖၣ်)မ့ၢ်ပှၤလၢအပာ်ဃုာ်ပာ်ဂီၢ်လၢတၢ်သူကမၣ်ဂာ်အပီးအလီအတၢ်ကူစါအတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤလၢအတုၤထီၣ်တၢ်ပာ်ပနီၣ်
  • မ့ၢ်မိၢ်ပၢ်လုၢ်ဖိကွၢ်ထွဲတၢ်တဖၣ်လၢအဖံးမၤတၢ်

Families in other circumstances may also qualify for a child care subsidy.  Contact us by phone at (607) 274-5612 or email to find out how we can help!  (If you have not heard back from us within 24 hours, please call at (607) 274-5612 for assistance.)


Family Share (ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိဟ့ၣ်စၢၤ)

ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတဖၣ်လၢအကြၢးဘၣ်တုၤထီၣ်ဘး၀ဲဒၣ်လၢဖိသၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်စၢၤတဖၣ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးမူဒါလၢတၢ်ကဟ့ၣ်တၢ်အလဲလိၤလိၤဆူပှၤဟ့ၣ်ဖိသၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အအိၣ်တနွံတဘျီဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိဟ့ၣ်စၢၤတၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.  ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်စၢၤတၢ်တနွံတဘျီစုာ်စုာ်န့ၣ်တၢ်ဒွးအီၤခီဖျိတၢ်ဟံးန့ၢ်ဟံၣ်တဒူၣ်အတနံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤတၢ်ဟဲနုာ်အကျါတနီၤလၢအမ့ၢ်၀ဲဒၣ် *အိၣ်အါန့ၢ် Federal Poverty Level (ကီၢ်စဲၣ်စၢဖှိၣ်တၢ်ဖှီၣ်တၢ်ယာ်အပတီၢ်)*, ဂံၢ်အါအီၤဒီး 1% ဒီးနီၤဖးအီၤဒီး 52 နွံန့ၣ်လီၤ.

This chart shows the income standards that will apply as of June 1st of 2024 and are valid through May 31st of 2025:

SIS06012024

တနွံစုာ်စုာ်ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်စၢၤတၢ်အစှၤကတၢၢ်န့ၣ်ညီနုၢ်အိၣ်၀ဲဒၣ် $1.00; သနာ်က့,ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတနီၤအတၢ်အိၣ်သးန့ၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ကပာ်ကွံာ်အီၤလၢတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်စၢၤတၢ်တမံၤလၢ်လၢ်အပူၤခဲလၢာ်လီၤ.  အဒိတနီၤမ့ၢ်၀ဲ-  ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတဖၣ်လၢအဟံၣ်အဃီတအိၣ်,အိၣ်ဒီးဖိသၣ်တၢ်ဒီသဒၢ,တၢ်ကဟုကယာ်အတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တဖၣ်,မ့တမ့ၢ်ထဲဒၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးတစိၢ်တလီၢ်တၢ်ကွၢ်လုၢ်ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်,တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်၀ဲဒၣ်ဖိသၣ်တဂၤအခွဲးဧိၤအခါန့ၣ်လီၤ.


မ့ၢ်တၢ်ကပတံထီၣ်ဒ်လဲၣ်

There are four ways to obtain an application to receive a child care subsidy.

  1. Apply now with our new online application  https://ocfs.ny.gov/programs/childcare/ccap/         
  2. Click here to download the State application in the form of a PDF file (unfortunately not 'fillable'; it will need to be printed out.)
  3. Call us at 607-274-5612 to request that a hardcopy application to be mailed to you.
  4. Pick up an application in person at the Reception window of the county's Human Services Building in downtown Ithaca (the street address is 320 W. Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street; but our public parking lot is on Seneca Street between Albany and Plain.)               

တၢ်နဲၣ်လီၤလၢတၢ်ကမၤပှဲၤလံာ်ပတံထီၣ်န့ၣ်တၢ်ထုးန့ၢ်အီၤဒ် Word အလံာ်တဘ့ၣ်အသိးလၢ NYS Office (နူယီးကီၢ်စဲၣ်အ၀ဲၤဒၢး)လၢအမ့ၢ် Children and Family Services (ဖိသၣ်ဒီးဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိအတၢ်မၤစၢၤအတၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤ ဖဲအံၤသ့လီၤ.

တၢ်အကါဒိၣ်လၢကဘၣ်တိၢ်နီၣ်ဃာ် #1:  လၢတၢ်မၤပှဲၤလံာ်ပတံထီၣ်အမဲာ်ညါ,နကဘၣ်ဟ့ၣ်လံာ်လဲၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲတၢ်တဘျုးကလုာ်အလံာ်ကွဲးဒိတဖၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.  စရီအခဲအံၤတခါန့ၣ်တၢ်မၤန့ၢ်အီၤလၢပပှာ်ယဲၤဘျးစဲတဖၣ်အလိၤဒ်  PDF အလံာ်အသိး ဖဲအံၤသ့လီၤ.

တၢ်အကါဒိၣ်လၢကဘၣ်တိၢ်နီၣ်ဃာ် #2:  မိၢ်ပၢ်လၢအမၤတၢ်တဖၣ်ကဘၣ်တီၣ်ထီၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီး Employment Information Form(တၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤအတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤအလံာ်တကွီၢ်ဒိ) (တၢ်ဘျးစဲဃာ်အီၤဒ် PDF အလံာ်အသိး) တဘ့ၣ်လၢအ၀ဲသ့ၣ်အတၢ်မၤကစၢ်ကဘၣ်မၤပှဲၤလီၤအီၤန့ၣ်လီၤ.

နတီၣ်ထီၣ်လံာ်ပတံထီၣ်လၢတၢ်မၤပှဲၤဃာ်အီၤ၀ံၤလံဒီးလံာ်တီလံာ်မီလၢတၢ်လိၣ်ဘၣ်အီၤတဖၣ်လၢကျိၤကျဲသၢဘိအပူၤန့ၣ်သ့လီၤ-

1. Drop off at the county's Human Services Building.
2. Email:  (click this link)  (If you have not heard back from us within 24 hours, please call at (607) 274-5612 for assistance.)
3. Mail to:   
      Child Care Assistance Program
      Tompkins County DSS
      320 West MLK Jr./State Street
      Ithaca, NY 14850


တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤဆူညါ

For help finding a child care provider, please contact the Child Development Council at (607) 273-0259 or visit the 'find child care' page of their website.

If you're interested in becoming a child care provider, the Child Development Council can help.   Call (607) 273-0259 or visit the 'providers' page of their website.

လၢ တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤဆူညါဘၣ်ဃးဖိသၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်လၢပဒိၣ်ဟ့ၣ်စၢၤမၤစှၤလီၤအပှ့ၤအဂီၢ်, ၀ံသးစူၤလဲၤအိၣ်သကိးဘၣ်NYS Office လၢအမ့ၢ် Children and Family Services' အပှာ်ယဲၤသန့- https://ocfs.ny.gov/programs/childcare/.


တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤဆူညါဘၣ်ဃးပှၤပတံထီၣ်တၢ်,ပှၤဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤတခါအံၤဒီးကမျၢၢ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤအတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤလၢအဂၤလၢပ၀ဲၤကျိၤရဲၣ်ကျဲၤမၤအီၤလၢလီၢ်က၀ီၤအပူၤအခွဲးယာ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်တၢ်ထံၣ်န့ၢ်အီၤသ့၀ဲဒၣ်ဖဲ https://otda.ny.gov/programs/applications/5208.pdf န့ၣ်လီၤ.