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C. 44

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	April 20, 2021

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Grant Agreement #28-958 with Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Community Benefit Programs

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 04/20/2021

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

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

Contact:	Daniel Peddycord, 925-313-6712
cc:	Tasha Scott Marcy Wilhelm

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: April 20, 2021
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Grant Agreement #28-958 (#112745) with Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Community Benefit Programs, to pay the County an amount not to exceed $50,000, for the COVID-19 Ambassador Pathways to Possibilities (P2P) Project, for the period from December 1, 2020 through November 30, 2021.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Approval of this Grant Agreement will result in an amount not to exceed $50,000 from Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. No County match is required.

BACKGROUND:

The goal of the COVID-19 P2P project is to address health disparities associated with poor educational outcomes. In Contra Costa County, Latino and African American residents face disproportionate rates of preventable chronic illnesses such as heart disease, obesity, cancer as well as most recently, COVID-19. Public health agencies alone cannot reduce these disparities, but by employing trusted community members as ambassadors for key health and safety messages, the COVID-19 Ambassador P2P project can provide a meaningful work-based learning experience to youth and young adults with lived experience with incarceration, whom face significant barriers to employment. The participants will become community messengers and gain valuable leadership experience and transferrable skills to apply to enter the health workforce.

This Grant Agreement will allow Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) to implement the COVID-19 Ambassador P2P Project to provide COVID-19 training and work-based learning as COVID-19 Ambassadors for 16–30-year-olds living in or soon to return home to Contra Costa, through November 30, 2021.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this grant is not approved, the County will not receive funding to support the activities for the COVID-19 Ambassador P2P Project.