Children and Family Services | Riverside County Centralized Eligibility List (CEL)
The Riverside County Office of Education, Children’s Services Unit maintains the Riverside County Centralized Eligibility List (CEL). The CEL is a comprehensive listing of the families in Riverside County who are interested in receiving subsidized child care and development services. Programs that receive state funding through the California Department of Education (CDE) are required to utilize the CEL to fill vacancies in their subsidized child care & development and state preschool programs. There are approximately 41 state-funded agencies in Riverside County that have access to the CEL.
Getting on the CEL
Interested families may contact (888) 296-KIDS to request a CEL application. The CEL application may also be downloaded from this Web site: Centralized Eligibility List Application (English), Centralized Eligibility List Application (Spanish). Once an application has been completed and returned, it will be entered into the CEL database. The CEL automatically ranks families according to their eligibility per CDE regulations. This is not a standard ranking but a weighted ranking, so there may be hundreds of families at rank 1, rank 2, and so on.
Time spent on the CEL
The amount of time a family spends on the CEL is dependent upon the funding each agency receives from CDE. Once funding is available, agencies will pull families in ranking order, so that the most eligible families, at that time, are contacted first.
Keeping Information Current
It is vital that families keep all the information on the CEL current. Changes in address, phone number, job status or location, income and/or family size must be reported to a CEL agency. This keeps families active in the CEL database with the most accurate information. Families are required to update their CEL application information every six months in order to remain active on the CEL. Applications that are not updated timely will become inactive.
Sharon Baskett, Director
(951) 826-6626
sbaskett@rcoe.us
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