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C.49

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Joe Valentine, Employment & Human Services Director
Date:	February 15, 2011

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Issuance of Request for Proposal #1122 for Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) Services

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 02/15/2011

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Gayle B. Uilkema, District II Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

ABSENT:

Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor

Contact:

Elaine Burres, 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: February 15, 2011
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to issue Request for Proposal #1122 for Promoting Safe and Stable Families services in an amount not to exceed $490,000 for the period of July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012.

FISCAL IMPACT:

$490,000: 100% Federal, Promoting Safe and Stable Families funding. No County match.

BACKGROUND:

The Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 established the Family Preservation and Support Service Program, geared toward community-based family preservation and support under Title IV-B of the Social Security Act and according to the United States Code, Title 42, Chapter 7, Subchapter IV, Part B, subpart 2, commencing with section 629a. In 1997, the program was reauthorized under the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and renamed the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program (PSSF) with two additional services put in place: time-limited reunification and supportive adoption services. The PSSF Amendment of 2001, extended the program through 2006.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

Recently, the PSSF Program was reauthorized through federal fiscal year 2011 by the Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006. The PSSF funding is used to support services to strengthen parental relationships and promote healthy marriages, to improve parenting skills and increase relationship skills within the family to prevent child abuse and neglect, while also promoting timely family reunification when children must be separated from their parents for the safety of the child. The PSSF funds are also to be used to remove barriers which impede the process of adoption when children cannot be safely reunited with their families and to address the unique issues adoptive families and children may face.

The period of for the resulting contracts will be July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012 with an option for a one-year renewal pending availability of funds and the provision of quality services with successful outcomes as determined by the Employment and Human Services, Children and Family Services Bureau ongoing monitoring and evaluation of programs.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Without the release of this funding, Promoting Safe and Stable Families services would not be contracted with agencies and delivered to the children and families in Contra Costa County.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

The contracts resulting from Request for Proposal #1122 will support all of the community outcomes established on 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 nd Families" by reducing the occurrence of child abuse and neglect, and providing support services to strengthen the family unit.