Upcoming Reminders - Due next 60 days
#Due DateApplies ToTitle / Description
104/30/26MOCAL Due Dates MOCAL - Reimbursements
It is crucial for MOCAL grantees to fully expend their 2025-26 awarded budgets. We can NOT have unspent state/GR dollars remaining or the state legislators may not look favorably on continuing that funding if it is not needed. Plan accordingly!!!!!


  New Posts
# PostedMain MenuSub MenuTitle / Description
104/07/26
Policies / Procedures
SAC Evaluation and Process Submission Instructions - Evaluation Cycle 2023-28
204/01/26
DESE Communication
DESE Announcements 2026-27 Continuation Grant Application and Guidance - Now Available
The 2026-27 Continuation Report and Continuation Grant Guidance is now available. These are for both 21st CCLC and MOCAL. Please note on page one of the report it says the issue date is April 15, but we were able to get it approved earlier, so we are just going to post ahead of schedule. The due date is May 8.
303/25/26
DESE Communication
DESE Announcements Meet the New DESE Afterschool Staff
We are so excited to announce that Tammy Schaben has joined our DESE afterschool team. She has been busy learning this month and is ready to begin working with her programs. We have updated the DESE Assigned Supervisors list here on the Portal under the Contacts button. Programs can then see which of our amazing team members they have been assigned to (Jimmy, Patrice or Tammy). Please see Tammy's information attached and help us welcome Tammy to afterschool!
403/20/26
DESE Communication
DESE Announcements Payments - URGENT

three very important messages, please read all three:

1. All MOCAL grantees MUST have their final payment request submitted by June 1, NO EXCEPTIONS. This is state money that goes away, we do not get extensions at our level to allow you submissions after the deadline.

2. All MOCAL grantees please be certain you either fully spend your award or notify our office immediately when you know you will not be able to spend your dollars. Again, we must have the dollars fully spent in June or risk the state legislature determining this money is not needed in the future budgets.

3. All grantees: payment requests from our end are reviewed and processed. However, there are only two payment cycles each month. If you miss one, it will be held over until the next payment cycle. We do not and cannot make payments every day. There is a process all requests must go through in our agency once we have approved and forwarded them on. 

503/20/26
MADS
MADS Announcements MADS System Clean Up

MADS has been undergoing significant system maintenance. You may notice that old/no longer in use sites have been removed. DESE is required to keep data for three years following the end of a grant cycle per record retention laws. Therefore, all old and no longer used sites have now been deleted. 

Should a need arise for an old site to be re-created, or a future grant award, they will then be added at the time. 

We hope you will appreciate not having to comb through all those sites you no longer use.

Please reach out through the MADS helpdesk ticket if something was removed you need or if you have any questions as these updates continue. 



  Recent Updates
# EditedMain MenuSub MenuTitle / Description
104/07/26
Policies / Procedures
CCLC/MOCAL External Evaluator and Process Submission Instructions - Evaluation Cycle 2023-28
204/07/26
Policies / Procedures
CCLC/MOCAL External Evaluator and Process List of External Evaluators
This is a list of the external evaluators for MOCAL and 21st CCLC to select from (must be from this list). The pages following the list will give you additional information about the evaluator, resume, bio, etc.
304/03/26
Training / Events
DESE Presentations DESE Breakout Session - MOSAC 2025
See attached.
404/03/26
Training / Events
DESE Presentations Statewide Evaluation Results and Overview - Breakout Session - MOSAC 2025
See attached.