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FROM: R. E. JORNLIN, DIRECTOR CIJI ltra
Social Service Department Costa
DATE'. JZ
18, 1987
SUBJECT; A CATION RECOMMENDATIONS
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION
A. Accept this funding recommendation report, in response to
Request For Proposal #1016 from the Family and Children' s Trust
Committee (FACT) , which provides information on the allocation
of AB 2994 funds--increased birth certificate fees, and the Ann
Adler Family and Children' s Trust Fund--voluntary property tax
donations. The Director, Social Service Department, concurs
with FACT' s recommendations to allocate funds to Early
Childhood Mental Health and Contra Costa Children' s Council,
and requests authorization to rnegotiate and execute contract
documents approved as to form by the County Counsel or
Contracts Administrator as designee of the Board of
Supervisors:
Funding
Agency Service Source/Amount
Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation AB 2994 funds
Mental Health for Preschools and Child $24, 287
Care Providers
Voluntary
Contra Costa Day Care for Children of Taxpayer Dona-
Children' s Council Teen Parents tions $29,972
B. In addition, accept the funding recommendation made by the
Director, Social Service Department, to use the $10, 387 Federal
Challenge Grant to assist in providing parent aide services.
The Federal Challenge Grant (AB 2894) is a State grant
allocated to Contra Costa County to augment AB 2994 funds.
This differs from the FACT Committee' s reommendation of using
$7 , 500 of the Federal Challenge Grant to be allocated to the
Child Abuse Prevention Council for provision of a resource
directory (Coping with Parenthood) .
II . FINANCIAL IMPACT
The three funding sources identified above do not require a
County match.
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ORIG: Social Service Dept, (Attn: Contracts Unit) JUL 7 1987
cc: County Administrator ATTESTED
Audi tor-Control 1 er PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
FACT Committee SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Contractors
M382/7-83 BY c�G�EI ,DEPUTY
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REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION/BACKGROUND
The Family and Children' s Trust Committee recently completed a
Request For Proposal (R.F.P. ) process to allocate AB 2994
funds, the Ann Adler Family and Children' s Trust Fund, and the
Federal Challenge Grant in the amount of approximately $64,000.
FACT established funding categories, funding criteria, rated
the proposals and made the recommendations specified above.
The Social Service Department Director supports the funding
recommendation for Early Childhood Mental Health and Contra
Costa Children' s Council in response to Request for Proposal
41016 to receive the allocations as specified above. However,
I disagree with using the Federal Challenge Grant funds to
provide a child abuse prevention information directory (Coping
with Parenthood) when direct services are in jeopardy.
The agency providing parent aide services has notified the
Social Service Department that effective July 1, 1987, it will
no longer provide parent aide services for the Department. The
Department has utilized parent aide service as part of its
service programs to maintain families and children in their own
homes in safety. Parent aide services are an economical
alternative to the use of institutions or group homes when the
family can continue to function with the help of parent aide
intervention. In cases of child neglect, child abuse or
failure-to-thrive babies, parent aides work intensively with
parents in the parents ' homes under the guidance of an assigned
social worker to help them organize their lives and' to help
them learn child care and housekeeping skills. The parent
aides have been used heavily in providing juvenile court-
ordered supervision of visitation between children placed out
of their homes and parents who have abused, molested or
neglected them. As legal requirements have increased our
responsibilities to offer intensive services to maintain
families or to help families work toward reunification, the use
of parent aides has been mandatory in meeting our legal
mandates. At this time we could use additional parent aide
services. It is crucial that we not lose existing services.
The Social Service Department is presented with a double
problem.
1. We are losing a contractor that has provided an
effective, well administered service.
2. The Contractor will be withdrawing United Way funding
from the East County service, resulting in the County' s
loss of a funding resource that has provided the bulk of
funding for this service. Of the approximately $75,000
needed to fund a 3 parent aide program, the Department is
currently providing less than 1/3 of the cost.
The Social Service Department has received Board of Supervisors
approval of an Interim Contract with Family Stress Center to
provide parent aide services to East and West County, while the
Social Service Department conducts a pre-bid survey to
determine if other agencies are interested in providing said
service.
In reference to the child abuse prevention informational
directory, it is my understanding United Way and Stanford
University are developing a large information system, the Bay
Area Information and Retrieval System (BAIRS) . With this
system BAIRS is publishing a directory of human and other
services. Ultimately they plan on having information terminals
in all public libraries.
It is my recommendation the Federal Challenge Grant be utilized
for Parent Aide services.
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