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C. 57

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Kathy Gallagher, Employment & Human Services Director
Date:	December 13, 2016

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Costa

County

Subject:

Issue Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Family Preservation and Support Program

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 12/13/2016

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Elaine Burres, 925-313-1717

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: December 13, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to issue Request for Proposals #1148 in an amount not to exceed $600,000, for the Family Preservation and Support Program for the period July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018.

FISCAL IMPACT:

$600,000: County 30%, State 70%.

BACKGROUND:

The Family Preservation and Support Program (FPSP) provides ongoing case management services that engage and establish a positive rapport with families referred from existing Child Welfare cases who are experiencing multiple stressors impacting their ability to parent effectively, and who are consequently at risk of having their children placed in out of home care.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

FPSP services are community based to provide intensive short term, in-home case management services to families, including teen parents, adoptive and extended families, with active child welfare cases. FPSP services are designed to intensively engage and treat families that are referred to Child Welfare Services for child abuse and neglect in an effort to stabilize the family and where possible, prevent foster care placements. Services include, but are not limited to case management, psychosocial assessments, family needs assessments, and twenty-four (24) hour emergency response.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Without Board of Supervisors authorization to do so, the pending open bid process would not continue, resulting in the lack of funding released to the community.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

Contracts resulting from this Request for Proposals will support all five of the community outcomes established in the Children's Report Card: 1) "Children Ready for and Succeeding in School"; 2) "Children and Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive Adulthood"; 3) "Families that are Economically Self Sufficient"; 4) "Families that are Safe, Stable and Nurturing"; and, 5) "Communities that are Safe and Provide a High Quality of Life for Children and Families" by providing ongoing case management services to address multiple family stressors impacting he ability to parent effectively.