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C. 59

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	FAMILY & HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE
Date:	January 17, 2017

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

2016 Family and Human Services Annual Report

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 01/17/2017

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Enid Mendoza, (925) 335-1039

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: January 17, 2017
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

I. ACKNOWLEDGE that the Board of Supervisors carried over twenty-one referrals from the prior year into the 2016 calendar year.


II. ACKNOWLEDGE that on June 7, 2016, the Board of Supervisors accepted and approved the Employment and Human Services Director’s recommendation to change the following referrals:

a. Eliminate the “Office of the Future” report from Referral #44 - Challenges for EHSD and expand the referral to include the “Continuum of Care Reform (Foster Care)” report; and

RECOMMENDATION(S): (CONT'D)

b. Reduce the frequency of Referral #108 – Call Center Oversight and the Health Care Reform Update from biannual to annual and eliminate the referral after June 30, 2017; and

c. Expand Referral #93 – Independent Living Skills Program to include additional youth services updates and retitle the referral to “Youth Services Report”; and
d. Refer a new report regarding the “impacts of technology on access to public benefits” to the Employment and Human Services Department so that the Family and Human Services Committee and the Board of Supervisors can receive annual updates on the department’s reworking of its business processes and development of technologies to make remote access of public benefits more common; and

e. Expand Referral #110 – Innovative Community Partnerships to include a report on “Whole Family Services”.

III. ACKNOWLEDGE that at the April 26, 2016 Board of Supervisors meeting the topic of child and teen psychiatric services and the utilization planning of the 4-D Unit was referred to the Family and Human Services Committee for follow up.

IV. ACKNOWLEDGE that at the September 13, 2016 Board of Supervisors meeting, the issues brought forward by the Mental Health Commission on the County’s public mental health care system was referred to the Family and Human Services Committee for follow up.

V. ACCEPT the recommendation to carry forward the following twenty-four referrals from the 2016 Family and Human Services Committee to the 2017 Committee:

a. Referral #5 – Continuum of Care Plan for the Homeless/Healthcare for the Homeless
b. Referral #20 – Public Service Portion of the CDBG
c. Referral #25 – Child Care Planning/Development Council Membership
d. Referral #44 – Challenges for EHSD (Continuum of Care Reform)
e. Referral #45 – Adult Protective Services and Challenges for Aged & Disabled Populations
f. Referral #56 – East Bay Stand Downs for Homeless Veterans / Stand Down on the Delta
g. Referral #61 – HIV Prevention/Needle Exchange Program
h. Referral #78 – Community Services Bureau/Head Start Oversight
i. Referral #81 – Local Child Care & Development Planning Council Activities
j. Referral #82 – Secondhand Smoke Ordinance
k. Referral #92 – Local Planning Council – Child Care Needs Assessment
l. Referral #93 – Youth Services Report (formerly Independent Living Skills Program)
m. Referral #101 – FACT Committee At-Large Appointments
n. Referral #103 – SNAP/CalFresh (Food Stamp) Program
o. Referral #107 – Laura’s Law
p. Referral #108 – Call Center Oversight and the Health Care Reform Update
(to be eliminated June 30, 2017, or after final report in 2017)
q. Referral #109 – Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
r. Referral #110 – Innovative Community Partnerships
s. Referral #111 – Human Trafficking – Update on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Update on the Family Justice Center
t. Referral #112 – Policy Options to Protect Youth from Tobacco Influences in the Retail Environment
u. Referral #113 – Built Environment and Health in All Policies
v. Referral #114 – Impacts of Technology on Access to Public Benefits
w. Referral #115 – Child and Teen Psychiatric Services
x. Referral #116 – Public Mental Health Care System

FISCAL IMPACT:

None.

BACKGROUND:

On June 18, 2002, the Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution No. 2002/377, which requires that each regular and ongoing board, commission, or committee shall annually report to the Board of Supervisors on its activities, accomplishments, membership attendance, required training/certification (if any), and proposed work plan or objectives for the following year.

This report fulfills this requirement for the Family and Human Services Committee. On December 12, 2016 the Family and Human Services Committee reviewed the referrals the Committee had received reports and/or made recommendations to the Board of Supervisors and approved referring twenty-four referrals to the 2017 Family and Human Services Committee as specified in the recommendation section.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The twenty-four referrals from the 2016 Family and Human Services Committee will not be referred to the 2017 Committee for follow up.