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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.


The following table shows the income limits that apply as of October 1st of 2023:

SMI 85% NYS

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.

FPL 2023

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


မ့ၢ်တၢ်ကပတံထီၣ်ဒ်လဲၣ်

ကျိၤကွာ်အိၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်သၢဘိလၢတၢ်ကမၤန့ၢ်လံာ်ပတံထီၣ်တခါလၢတၢ်ကဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်ဖိသၣ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်ပဒိၣ်တၢ်ဟ့ၣ်စၢၤမၤစှၤလီၤတၢ်အပှ့ၤအဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.

1. ဆီၣ်လီၤ ဖဲအံၤ လၢတၢ်ကထုးန့ၢ်ကီၢ်စဲၣ်အလံာ်ပတံထီၣ်လၢ PDF အက့ၢ်အဂီၤ (ဘူၣ်တီၤတဂ့ၤဘၣ်တၢ်အံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်လၢ'တၢ်ကွဲးမၤပှဲၤအီၤတသ့ဘၣ်'; တၢ်ကဘၣ်စဲးကျံးထုးထီၣ်အီၤလီၤ.)
2. ကိးဘၣ်ပှၤဖဲ 607-274-5612 လၢတၢ်ကဃ့န့ၢ်လံာ်ပတံထီၣ်အစးခိကဘျံးနီၢ်နီၢ်တဘ့ၣ်လၢတၢ်ကဆှၢန့ၢ်နၤလၢလံာ်ပရၢတၢးအဂီၢ်တက့ၢ်.
3. ဟဲဟံးန့ၢ်လံာ်ပတံထီၣ်လၢနီၢ်ကစၢ်ဖဲတၢ်တူၢ်လိာ်တၢ်အပဲတရီလၢအအိၣ်လၢခီၣ်တံၢ်အ Human Services Building (ပှၤကူပှၤကညီအတၢ်မၤစၢၤအတၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤအတၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ်) လၢအအိၣ်လၢ Ithaca အ၀့ၢ်လီၢ်ခၢၣ်သး (ကျဲအနီၢ်ဂံၢ်မ့ၢ်၀ဲ 320 W. Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street; ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ပကမျၢၢ်တၢ်ပာ်ကတီၢ်သိလ့ၣ်အလီၢ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်ဖဲ Seneca Street လၢအအိၣ်လၢ Albany ဒီး Plain အဘၢၣ်စၢၤန့ၣ်လီၤ.)           

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:   
      Low-Income Child Care Assistance Unit
      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.