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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Kathy Gallagher, Employment & Human Services Director
Date:	November 12, 2019

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Contract with STAND! For Families Free of Violence for Phase III Lethality Assessment Program

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 11/12/2019

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:

Gina Chenoweth 8-4961

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: November 12, 2019
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with STAND! For Families Free of Violence, a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $326,500 to continue implementation of the Phase III Lethality Assessment Program for Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention for the period October 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This will increase department expenditures by $326,500, funded entirely by Federal funds, from a Department of Justice Grant, CFDA #16.590.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Valuable services to victims of violence will not be provided.

BACKGROUND:

The Contra Costa Alliance to End Abuse (Alliance), formerly Zero Tolerance for Domestic Violence Initiative, applied for and received funds from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration (Project) in 2013. The Project will build the capacity of the County to improve identification of and services for high-risk victims, while better monitoring high-risk offenders to reduce domestic violence-related homicides and near homicides. This Project will document and disseminate solutions for replication across the country.

The Project has been implemented in phases - an assessment phase (Phase I) and an implementation phase (Phase II). OVW completed Phase I in September 2014 and selected the Alliance as one of four sites to participate in Phase II of the Project and implement the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP), a recognized promising practice. In 2016, OVW renewed funding in order for the Alliance to continue implementation of the LAP model (Phase III). The Alliance is engaging STAND! For Families Free From Violence to assist in carrying out activities consistent with the funding application.