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C.119

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Date:	July 26, 2022

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Call to Action Work Group Members

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 07/26/2022

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:

Elaine Burres 925-608-4960

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: July 26, 2022
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Auditor-Controller, or designee, to make one-time payments to eight organizations in an amount not to exceed $15,491 per organization, for a total of $123,927 for their 2019-2020 participation in the Call to Action Work Group.

FISCAL IMPACT:

$123,927 total of the one-time payments are funded 100% by the Blue Shield Foundation.
No county match required.

BACKGROUND:

Employment and Human Services Department (EHSD), The Alliance to End Abuse Division (Alliance), received a grant from the Blue Shield Foundation to implement the “Leveraging Collaboration to End Domestic Violence Project” from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020. Due to the COVID19 pandemic and shifting priorities, the Blue Shield Foundation granted the Alliance a no cost extension to allocate the remaining funds to the eight partner agencies by March 31, 2023.

In the implementation phase of the project, the Alliance and community partner agencies formed the Call to Action Work Group to share the common goal of promoting safety and reducing interpersonal violence (domestic violence, family violence, sexual violence, elder abuse, child abuse, and human trafficking). As a result of the Work Group, the Call to Action framework was published in February 2020. The Call to Action is a living document, intended to be used by individual leaders and organizations to guide action in a coordinated and strategic manner to correct the epidemic of interpersonal violence.

To recognize the important contributions from the eight Work Group members and to close out the Blue Shield Foundation grant, the Department requests the Board to authorize the Auditor-Controller to issue one-time payments to each of the following agencies in the amount indicated below by the end of the FY 22-23 fiscal year.

Center for Human Development, $15,491
Contra Costa Family Justice Center, $15,491
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, $15,491
Empowered Aging, $15,491
First 5 Contra Costa, $15,491
Monument Crisis Center, $15,491
RYSE Center, $15,491
STAND! For Families Free of Violence, $15,490

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Without approval of the one-time only payments for the eight Call to Action Work Group partners, EHSD and Alliance would not fulfill the goal of the grant extension granted by the Blue Shield Foundation.