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To, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
'_FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director Contra
By: Elizabeth A. Spooner, Contracts Administrator Costa
DATE; January 11, .1090 COUIIIy
SUBJECT: Accept Contribution from FamiliesFirst for Services to Foster
Parents of Drug-Exposed Infants
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Accept a contribution of $6, 000 from FamiliesFirst as partial
.funding of a half-time Public Health Nurse (PHN) position for
County's Child Health and Disability, Prevention Program for the
period January 1, 1990 through June 30, 1990. The Public Health
Nurse will be the health resource person for those foster parents
involved in the care of drug-exposed infants.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
FamiliesFirst has agreed to provide $6, 000 of funding for a half-
time Public Health Nurse (PHN) position for the County's Child
Health and Disability Prevention Program. An additional $24 ,000.
of Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT)
federal funds will be used to cover the cost of the position. No
County funding is required.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
Contra Costa County is experiencing an increase in the number of
drug-exposed infants being delivered in local hospitals. Due to
the unstable and chaotic family environment, most of these infants
are placed in foster care homes. Since the Child Health and
Disability Prevention Program is involved with the Department of
Social Services in assisting, foster parents obtain necessary
medical and dental exams, the staff has become aware that many of
the foster parents are not equipped to deal with these infants for
a variety of reasons. The infants require more intensive case.
management, and the foster parents need more support in order to
maintain these difficult infants in their homes.
In order to meet the needs of this population, the CHDP Program
and FamiliesFirst have agreed to provide special services in a
coordinated and comprehensive manner. FamiliesFirst provides
special training to their foster parents who care for drug-exposed .
infants. In order to provide a health resource person for foster
parents involved with FamiliesFirst in the care of drug-exposed
infants, FamiliesFirst will provide $6, 000 of funding for the
Public Health Nurse position.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE;
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMEND 1 N OF BOAR COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE S :
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED -2-5, OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ASSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES:_ - AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
JAN 2 3 1990
cc: Heattli Services (Contrasts) ATTESTED -
Auditor-Controller (Claims) PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
FamiliesFirst SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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