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FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director � ' Contra
By: Elizabeth A. Spooner, Contracts Administrator COSta
DATE: September 15, 1994 County
SUBJECT: Approve Submission of Funding Application #28-560 to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve submission of Funding Application #28-560 to the U. S. Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health (OMH) , in
the amount of $75, 000, for the period from September 30, 1994 through
September 29, 1995, for the Policy, Action, Collaboration and Training
(PACT) Alternatives to Violence Project Coalition in West County.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Approval of this application by the U.S.Department of Health and Human
Services, OMH, will result in $75, 000 of funding for the period from
September 30, 1994 through September 29, 1995, -for the PACT
Alternatives to Violence Project Coalition. No County funds are
required.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
The PACT Alternatives to Violence Project provides services to at-risk
middle school youth in the communities of Richmond, North Richmond and
San Pablo, to awaken them to positive alternatives to poverty, despair
and violence.
Approval of this application for OMH Coalition Enhancement Grant funds
will allow the PACT Project Coalition to expand its efforts to focus
on policy issues and to bring about concrete and essential outcomes,
such as: enhancing local gun regulations; developing a mental health
crisis response protocol to be implemented in the West County School
District; participating in a county-wide violence prevention action
plan, and producing models and materials for use by other community
groups in their violence prevention efforts.
In order to meet the deadline for submission, the application has been
forwarded to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but
subject to approval by the Board of Supervisors. Four certified and
sealed copies of the Board Order authorizing submission of the
application should be returned to the Contracts and Grants Unit
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: ,
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMME DATI NOF BOARD C MMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Contact: Wendel Brunner, M.D. (313-6712) SEP 2 7
cc: Health Services (Contracts) ATTESTED _
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
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