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C. 55

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Kathy Gallagher, Employment & Human Services Director
Date:	March 29, 2016

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Costa

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Subject:

Amend Contract with Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Services

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 03/29/2016

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

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

ABSENT:

Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor

Contact:

V. Kaplan, 3-1514

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 29, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Services, effective March 1, 2016, decreasing the payment limit by $69,451 to a new payment limit of $157,619 to provide medical assistant career training and internship services to job seekers under the federal Workforce Investment/Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Acts and CalWORKS for the period of May 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. (100% Federal)

FISCAL IMPACT:

$157,619: 100% Federal ($20,237 CalWORKs; $137,382 WIA/WIOA)

BACKGROUND:

This decrease in the payment limit is due to Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Services (JVS) receiving additional Dislocated Worker (DW) funding that they will dedicate to this program thereby decreasing the cost of the WDB portion of the training cohort. The increased JVS Dislocated Worker funds will also allow an additional cohort training that will be designated for dislocated worker WIOA eligible individuals.

JVS has partnered with John Muir Health for over two years and has established an employer-driven, sector strategy training, consisting of ten weeks of hands-on training at the John Muir Campus in Walnut Creek, followed by a 3-month paid internship to eligible WIOA and CalWORKs enrolled job seekers. In addition to ten weeks of classroom training, services will include outreach, recruitment, interviewing, curriculum development, and work experience assessment of program participants.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Funds from the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)/Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (WIOA) and California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) will not be available for other uses.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

The contract supports all five of the 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 training and providing employment opportunities for job seekers and dislocated workers.”