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C. 71
To: Board of Supervisors
From: Kathy Gallagher, Employment & Human Services Director
Date: September  7, 2021
The Seal of Contra Costa County, CA
Contra
Costa
County
Subject: 2022 Head Start Continuation Grant

APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On:   09/07/2021
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: A. Bailey-Nesbitt, 925-608-4930
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:     September  7, 2021
Monica Nino, County Administrator
 
BY: , Deputy

 

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to accept grant funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start, in an amount not to exceed $17,820,497 for Head Start Program services for the period January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022 and AUTHORIZE the Chair of Board of Supervisors to sign the grant application.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Funding for the period January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022 is included in the Department’s FY 2021-22 budget. The County, as Grantee, is required to generate a 25% non-federal match of the total grant budget. For 2022, the match amount equates to $4,455,124, which will be achieved through collaboration with State Child Development programs and the volunteer hours generated from Head Start parents and community partners.  
100% Federal funds. No County Cost. CFDA #93.600.   




FISCAL IMPACT: (CONT'D)
  
The application includes $2,321,753 requested funding for the County's Head Start Delegate Agency, First Baptist Church of Pittsburg, California.

BACKGROUND:

Head Start is a federal program that promotes the school readiness of children ages birth through five years old from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social and emotional development. Head Start programs provide a learning environment that supports children's growth in the following domains: language and literacy; cognition and general knowledge; physical development and health; social and emotional development; and approaches to learning. Head Start also offers comprehensive services, including health, nutrition, social and other services determined as necessary via family needs assessments. These services respond to each child and family's ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage. Children and families access these through various service models, including: centers or schools that children attend part or full-day, family childcare homes, and/or the children's own homes - a Head Start staff visits once per week to provide in-home services. Children who receive home-based services gather periodically with other enrolled families for group learning experiences facilitated by Head Start staff. Contra Costa County applies annually to the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start, as the Head Start grantee. The annual application includes newly identified goals and objectives for the program. This is year four of a five-year funding cycle. Year three continuation application was approved by the Board on September 22, 2020. This application was reviewed for approval by the Head Start Policy Council on August 18, 2021. Approval of this Board order will allow the continued provision of Head Start services to program eligible children and families.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If not approved, the County will not receive funding to operate Head Start childcare centers.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

The Head Start grant funding supports three of the community outcomes established in the Children's Report Card: 1) “Children Ready for and Succeeding in School, 3) “Families that are Economically Self-sufficient” and, 4) “Families that are Safe, Stable, and Nurturing" by offering comprehensive services, including high quality early childhood education, nutrition, and health services to children from low income families throughout Contra Costa County.

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