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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Kathy Gallagher, Employment & Human Services Director
Date:	March 1, 2016

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Costa

County

Subject:

California Governor's Office of Emergency Services Unserved/Underserved Victim/Advocacy and Outreach Program grant

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 03/01/2016

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, 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: March 1, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee to apply for and accept the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Unserved/Underserved Victim Advocacy and Outreach Program grant funding in an amount not to exceed $175,000 to identify underserved socially isolated populations, fund awareness, and improve knowledge to access local services available to crime victims for the period April 1, 2016 through March 31, 2017.

FISCAL IMPACT:

County to receive an amount not to exceed $175,000 from the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Unserved/Underserved Victim Advocacy and Outreach Program grant. (100% State) (20% In kind match)

BACKGROUND:

This grant funding is focused on service delivery to victims of violent crime within the unserved/underserved and socially isolated populations such as the elder population. In addition, it is designed to fund the awareness and to improve knowledge about assessing local services available to crime victims. The primary purpose of the program is to increase access to culturally appropriate victim services for unserved and underserved victim of crime. This can be accomplished by creating new programs or enhancing existing programs to commit staff time to specifically address the needs of the identified victim population, hiring staff, that reflects that population, training all staff on the cultural norms of the population and increasing out reach efforts.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Without funding, expansion of existing services and implementation of new programs to provide services to the unserved/underserved victims of violence crimes would not be realized.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

Not applicable.