HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12142010 - C.68RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee,
to execute a contract with Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay, a non-profit
corporation, for an amount not to exceed $136,000, to provide California Work Opportunity
and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), Welfare to Work (WtW), Work Experience
(WEX) program services for the period January 1, 2011 through June 30, 2011.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$136,000: 100% State CalWORKs funding
BACKGROUND:
The Work Experience (WEX) program is funded by California Work Opportunity and
Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), which is a federally mandated program designed to
move welfare recipients into the work force and toward family self-sufficiency and
economic independence. Work Experience will provide participants with the opportunity to
meet their work activity requirements while gaining valuable work experience in proven
market demand jobs. The purpose of Work Experience is to gain work skills while
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Action of Board On: 12/14/2010 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I
Supervisor
Gayle B. Uilkema, District
II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District
V Supervisor
Contact: Earl Maciel 3-1648
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: December 14, 2010
David J. Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: June McHuen, Deputy
cc: Earl Maciel
C. 68
To:Board of Supervisors
From:Joe Valentine, Employment & Human Services Director
Date:December 14, 2010
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Contract with Goodwill Industries for Work Experience Services
developing good work
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
habits and work maturity skills that will lead to unsubsidized employment.
Work experience activities are an integral part of the CalWORKs Welfare to Work (WtW)
program and are designed to help participants who have limited work experience, a sporadic
employment history or limited marketable skills, to practice and upgrade their job skills in a
non-paid work position under close supervision, thereby enhancing their employability for
unsubsidized employment. Work Experience plays an important role in meeting required
participation rates as CalWORKs participants, not exempt from work requirements, must be
working and/or participating in services that will assist them in increasing their
employability.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
The Employment and Human Services Department will be unable to provide valuable
services to CalWORKs recipients.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
This contract supports five of the community outcomes established in the Children’s Report
Card: 1) “Children Ready for and Succeeding in School”; 2) “Children and Youth Healthy
and Preparing for Productive Adulthood”; 3) “Families that are Economically
Self-Sufficient”; 4) “Families that are Safe, Stable, and Nurturing”; and 5) “Communities
that are Safe and Provide a High Quality of Life for Children and Families,” by assisting
parents to obtain and maintain unsubsidized employment, thereby reducing stress on the
family unit.