Contra Costa County receives funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration services to program eligible County residents. EHSD contracts with a number of community-based organizations to provide services.
Approval of this Board Order would renew a contract with Aspiranet to provide coordination services of Home-based Early Head Start programs throughout the County. Aspiranet will provide services to 149 pregnant women and/or children ages birth to three years old enrolled in the Early Head Start program. The contract also funds the CalWORKs Home Visiting Initiative and the First Five Home visiting program to provide weekly home visits and regular group socialization activities for families enrolled in the program.
Since FY 2014-15, Aspiranet has been providing Early Head Start Program Enhancement services to program eligible County residents. In recent years, on December 10, 2019 (C. 85), the Board of Supervisors approved a contract with Aspiranet in an amount not to exceed $1,306,120 to provide Early Head Start Program Enhancement and CalWORKS Initiative services for the period July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. On June 2, 2020 (C. 18), the Board approved a contract amendment to increase the payment limit to $1,397,020 to add fifteen (15) Early Head Start Partnership slots and additional health and safety reporting requirements pertaining to Head Start Program Enhancement Services with no change to the term. On July 14, 2020 (C. 61), the Board approved a contract renewal with Aspiranet in an amount not to exceed $1,362,128 to provide Early Head Start Program Enhancement and CalWORKS Initiative services for the period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. On July 13, 2021 (C. 57), the Board approved another contract renewal with the contractor in an amount not to exceed $1,499,760 to provide the same services for the period July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.
This Board Order will approve another contract renewal with Aspiranet in an amount not to exceed $2,109,760, to provide Early Head Start program enhancement and CalWORKs initiative services for the term July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, subject to County Counsel approval as to form.
If this contract is not approved, fewer eligible families will be served by the County’s Early Head Start Enhancement program and CalWORKs Initiative.
The Employment and Human Services Department Community Services Bureau supports three of Contra Costa County’s community outcomes - Outcome 1: “Children Ready for and Succeeding in School,” Outcome 3: “Families that are Economically Self-sufficient,” and, Outcome 4: “Families that are Safe, Stable, and Nurturing.” These outcomes are achieved by offering comprehensive services, including high quality early childhood education, nutrition, and health services to low-income children throughout Contra Costa County.
ADOPTED as corrected for the amount of $2,109,760,to now read $1,499,760.