HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 02122013 - C.30RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with WestEd to pay County up to $6,000 for participation in the WestEd
Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Games Home Study for the period from the date of MOU execution through
September 30, 2013.
FISCAL IMPACT:
County to receive up to $6,000 from WestEd PBS Games Home Study.
BACKGROUND:
The WestEd Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Games Home Study (Study) addresses the efficacy of four (4) PBS
transmedia suites in increasing preschoolers' mathematics skills and their parents ability to support their young child's
mathematics learning in the home environment. The Study will focus on how parent facilitators can be trained to
facilitate parent meetings related to the suites at the Head Start programs. The Study will take place over a 10-week
period in homes recruited from the program and involve students' and parents' use of four (4) mathematic-focused
transmedia suites created by PBS: Cat in the Hat, Dinosaur Train, Curious George, and Sid the Science
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD
COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 02/12/2013 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYES 5 NOES ____
ABSENT ____ ABSTAIN ____
RECUSE ____
Contact: Camilla Rand 313-1771
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: February 12, 2013
David J. Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: Carrie Del Bonta, Deputy
cc:
C. 30
To:Board of Supervisors
From:Kathy Gallagher, Employment & Human Services
Date:February 12, 2013
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Memorandum of Understanding with WestEd, PBS Games Home Study
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
Kid.
The Employment and Human Services Department (EHSD), Community Services Bureau (CSB) will work with
WestEd to recruit families to take part in the Study. The program's teachers will distribute and gather parent consent
forms, prepared by WestEd and reviewed and approved by EHSD CSB, from interested parents.
WestEd will provide participating parents with stipends totaling $300-$850 over the course of the Study. WestEd
will provide each lead teacher of a classroom with a participating child/children a stipend of $300. Stipend payments
will be made from WestEd directly to the lead teacher and to the parents.
This is the second cycle of the WestEd PBS Games Home Study in which CSB has participated.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Without funding Employment and Human Services, Community Services Bureau, would be unable to continue
participation in the WestEd, PBS Games Home Study program.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
The MOU will support two of the community outcomes established in the Children's Report Card, (1) "Children
Ready For and Succeeding in School" and (2) "Children and Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive
Adulthood" by participation in a study to increase preschooler's mathematic skills and their parents ability to support
their young child's mathematic learning.