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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Kathy Gallagher, Employment & Human Services
Date:	February 12, 2013

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Costa

County

Subject:

Memorandum of Understanding with WestEd, PBS Games Home Study

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 02/12/2013

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:

Camilla Rand 313-1771

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 12, 2013
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with WestEd to pay County up to $6,000 for participation in the WestEd Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Games Home Study for the period from the date of MOU execution through September 30, 2013.

FISCAL IMPACT:

County to receive up to $6,000 from WestEd PBS Games Home Study.

BACKGROUND:

The WestEd Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Games Home Study (Study) addresses the efficacy of four (4) PBS transmedia suites in increasing preschoolers' mathematics skills and their parents ability to support their young child's mathematics learning in the home environment. The Study will focus on how parent facilitators can be trained to facilitate parent meetings related to the suites at the Head Start programs. The Study will take place over a 10-week period in homes recruited from the program and involve students' and parents' use of four (4) mathematic-focused transmedia suites created by PBS: Cat in the Hat, Dinosaur Train, Curious George, and Sid the Science Kid.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

The Employment and Human Services Department (EHSD), Community Services Bureau (CSB) will work with WestEd to recruit families to take part in the Study. The program's teachers will distribute and gather parent consent forms, prepared by WestEd and reviewed and approved by EHSD CSB, from interested parents.

WestEd will provide participating parents with stipends totaling $300-$850 over the course of the Study. WestEd will provide each lead teacher of a classroom with a participating child/children a stipend of $300. Stipend payments will be made from WestEd directly to the lead teacher and to the parents.

This is the second cycle of the WestEd PBS Games Home Study in which CSB has participated.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Without funding Employment and Human Services, Community Services Bureau, would be unable to continue participation in the WestEd, PBS Games Home Study program.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

The MOU will support two of the community outcomes established in the Children's Report Card, (1) "Children Ready For and Succeeding in School" and (2) "Children and Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive Adulthood" by participation in a study to increase preschooler's mathematic skills and their parents ability to support their young child's mathematic learning.