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FROM: JAMES A. RYDINGSWORD, DIRECTOR I5 Cosh
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DATE: February 15, 1991 'r,` "".
SUBJECT: APPROVAL OF 1991/92 GAIN PLAN UPDATE
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)8 BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
At the conclusion of the public hearing, approve the 1991/91 Greater
Avenues for Independence (GAIN) Plan Update. The recommended changes
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to the Plan are as follows:
1. Beginning July 1, 1991, offer GAIN services to those AFDC
recipients who want to be in the program and who are in the
GAIN/JOBS target group of custodial parents under age 24 who
have had no significant work history in the past year, or, who
have no high school diploma and are not attending a high
school program.
Should funding allow additional participants to be served
after bringing in the above group of individuals, recipients
of AFDC whose youngest child is within two years of becoming
ineligible for aid, and recipients who have been on AFDC 36
out of the last 60 months, whose youngest child is 6 or over,
and who want to be in the GAIN program, will be asked to
volunteer for the program.
2 . Develop a Teen Parent Plan, coordinating with the Office of
Education's Project MARC, and teen parent programs currently
operating in the county. The goal is to target teen parents
and provide services to enable them to complete high school,
to increase their chances of self-sufficiency by utilizing the
GAIN services available to them.
The above target groups and priorities within those groups are
prescribed by state and federal law an GAIN st a regulations.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SfGNATU
_RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR __RECOMMENDATION F BOA COMMI E
APPROVE -OTHER
SIGNATURE(Sh
ACTION OF BOARD 01 F e b r u a r y 26 , 1991 -- APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
The Chair opened the hearing. Linda Canan, Division Manager, Services, Contra
Costa County Social Service Department, spoke on the scope of the Contra Costa
County Greater Avenues of Independence (GAIN) Plan Update, the population served,
and of changes that need to be implemented because of reductions in the funding
allocation. There being no other speakers, the Board CLOSED the hearing and
APPROVED the recommendations set forth above. The Board also requested staff to
prepare for the Chair's signature letters of appreciation to the Contra Costa
Community colleges for the assistance they provided to GAIN participants.
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VOTE OF SUPERVISORS _----- �- -_-_ -'--- --
X - - _ 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS(ABSENT 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.
CC: Social Service Dept. (Contracts Unit) ATTESTED February 26, 1991
County Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Auditor-Co n l ro l l e r SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
State Dept. of Social Services
BY •(-'' ,DEPUTY
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Approval of 1991/92 -2- February 15, • 1991
GAIN Plan Update
They require that volunteers in the target groups be brought into
GAIN before requiring participation of other mandatory individuals
who do not want to be in the program.
FINANCIAL IMPACT•
The GAIN allocation for 1991/92 has been set at $4,280,780: This
is 8% less than FY 90/91, a $381,937 decrease. To continue to
provide all GAIN services to as many individuals as possible, it is
necessary to limit the number of participants in the program.
BACKGROUND:
With decreased state funding. of ' the GAIN program, it is necessary
to limit the number of participants. There are currently about
2,500 individuals in the GAIN program. The federal JOBS program
changed the method in which AFDC participants are brought into
GAIN.
By serving the volunteers in the federal target groups, we project
that most of those individuals can be brought into the program in
1991/92 . Additionally, by limiting the age of children in the 36
out of 60 month target group to school age children, child care
costs will be kept under control.
Child Care costs in GAIN have escalated' in the last year. Without
more money in GAIN for child care, or more subsidized care, the
number of participants must be limited.
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