Community Services Bureau (CSB) has outsourced its Mental Health Services, thus we are requesting to cancel the vacant Community Services Mental Health Clinical Supervisor-Project, position #12925 (0.50 FTE), and to add an Intermediate Clerk-Project, full time position, for the Partner Unit. Over the last two years, directly operated programs have closed or reduced services due to staffing shortages and facility issues causing the Partner Unit to continue to see a steady increase in Early Head Start, Head Start, and State Funded slots. Due to this increase, services require heavy clerical data entry. Intermediate Clerks in the Partner Unit carry out tasks to meet Head Start Program Performance Standard, including a range of services as outlined in HSPPS 1302.20; these services include facilitating medical and dental services and follow up, nutritional assessments and follow up, mental health services and follow up, resource and referral, family development activities and training, and family meetings. In addition, this clerical position is critical to processing attendance from partners to ensure they are paid on time, hence the urgency to hire to cover all the required clerical duties and entries regarding the provision of health, oral health, nutrition, mental health, disabilities and family and community partnership services.
If these personnel actions are not approved, the Partner Unit will be stretched to the limit and children and families will not get the services and resources they need to achieve positive outcomes in their lives. Compliance with the many federal regulations will be jeopardized, putting the agency at risk of losing funding. In addition, partner agencies will not have the support of a comprehensive services clerk, which is CSB’s commitment in our contracts with our childcare partners.