RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Community Violence Solutions, a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $142,000, for the continued operation of the Children's Interview Center, for the period of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The funds allocated for this contract are 14% from the General Fund ($20,000) and 86% ($122,000) from Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
BACKGROUND:
Community Violence Solutions in collaboration with the Employment and Human Services Department (EHSD), the Sheriff's Department, and local Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) operates the multidisciplinary Children's Interview Center (CIC). CIC provides forensic interviews and/or forensic exams to child victims of sexual abuse. It provides skilled interviews in a child-friendly setting to decrease the child's trauma by minimizing the number of interviews, and it has implemented standardized evidence collection processes that increased the number of cases prosecuted.
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