RECOMMENDATION(S):

Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County, Contract Amendment Agreement #24-959-28 with Stand! For Families Free of Violence, a non-profit corporation, effective March 1, 2016, to amend Novation Contract #24-959-27, to increase the payment limit by $35,000, from $100,00 to a new payment limit of $135,000, with no change in the original term of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016, and to increase the automatic extension payment limit by $17,500, from $50,000 to $67,500, through December 31, 2016.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This amendment is funded 100% CalWORKs (No rate increase)

BACKGROUND:

In January 2016, the County Administrator approved and Purchasing Services Manager executed Contract #24-959-27 with Stand! For Families Free of Violence for the provision of mental health services, including individual, group and family collateral counseling, case management, and medication management services to CalWORKs participants to reduce barriers to employment, for the period from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016, which included a six-month automatic extension through December 31, 2016.