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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 02041992 - IO.2 IO-2 m TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Contra FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE tCosta 9:a Count DATE: January 27 , 1992 SUBJECT: STATUS REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COUNTYWIDE DRUG AND ALCOHOL ACTION PLAN SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS: I . Concur with plans being made by the Health Services Department and Regional Coordinators to schedule the next meeting of the Countywide Coordinating Committee for April 23, 1992 at the Danville Town Hall, with the focus of the meeting to be on Intervention, Treatment and Aftercare Programs and strategies . In this regard, agree that another meeting of the Countywide Coordinating Committee should be held in East County in the fall of 1992, with the focus on Law Enforcement Programs and strategies related to substance abuse, with a Countywide Drug and Alcohol Summit to be scheduled in Central or West County for January of 1993 . The focus of this Summit will be to provide a two-year review and update to the community on what the Action Plan has accomplished. 2 . Request the Health Services Director and Regional Coordinators to update the membership list for the Coordination Committee and forward an updated list to the Internal Operations Committee through the County Administrator' s Office as soon as possible but no later than March 23, 1992, for final confirmation by the Board of Supervisors . 3 . In evaluating the impact of the Drug and Alcohol Action Plan on the community, direct the Health Services Director to develop evaluation criteria along the following lines : CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: x YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY OR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE H SIGNATURE S: • S ODER SUNNE WRIGHT MC PEAK ve5ruary 4, 1992 ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED _.>!L OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS 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 TV DATE SHOWN. �f cc: please see Page 3. ATTESTED 7 PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE OARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR M382 (10/88) BY M DEPUTY I0-2 -2- The evaluation should be separated into three sections as follows : * Process : A description of what has been done in the community as a result of the adoption of the Action Plan. * Actions : As a result of what was done, what results or accomplishments did we see? * Statistics : Data which measures changes in factors which are considered to be valid indicators of positive progress in reducing or eliminating the use of illegal drugs and the abuse of alcohol in the community. An outline showing how this evaluation will be conducted should be presented to our Committee on March 23, 1992 . 4 . Request the Health Services Director and Regional Coordinators to report to our Committee again on March 23, 1992 with, in addition to the outline of the evaluation which will be conducted of the impact the Action Plan has had on the community, the final plans and agenda which have been made for the April 23, 1992 meeting of the Countywide Coordinating Committee, future plans which are being made for the fall Coordinating Committee meeting and January, 1993 Summit and any other activities which the Health Services Director and Regional Coordinators believe should be brought to the attention of the Board of Supervisors . BACKGROUND: On December 3, 1991 the Board of Supervisors referred to our Committee oversight of the implementation of the Drug and Alcohol Action Plan in Contra Costa County. The Health Services Director was asked to report to our Committee quarterly, beginning January 27 , 1992 . The Regional Coordinators were invited to our meetings . The Health Services Director was asked to report to our Committee on the methodology which is proposed to be used to evaluate the impact of the Action Plan on the community. On January 27, 1992, our Committee met with Jerry Nava, Alcohol Program Administrator; Dave Stegman, Regional Coordinator for Supervisorial District 3; Vic Colman, OSAP Project Coordinator for the Health Services Department; Eileen Lynch, from the Alcohol Administration of the Health Services Department; and Irene Dwinnell, OSAP Regional Coordinator for Supervisorial District 4 . Mr. Stegman reported on behalf of the Regional Coordinators and described the very positive reaction from the last Countywide Coordinating Committee meeting which was held at St. Mary' s College in Moraga, hosted by Supervisorial District 2 . Mr. Stegman described the revised organization which has been agreed to to support the involvement of the community in the implementation of the Action Plan. There has been agreement that there should be approximately quarterly meetings of the Coordinating Committee, hosted in turn by the various geographic regions in the County, with an annual Summit to bring together the entire community. The meetings of the Coordinating Committee will rotate among the three major divisions of the Action Plan: namely, Prevention & Education - Treatment and Intervention - Law Enforcement and Interdiction. Mr. Nava asked for clarification as to what our Committee intentions were in terms of how rigorous a level of scientific validity needed to be established by the evaluation criteria. Our Committee suggested the process which is outlined above. The evaluation would, then,, consist in general of a description of what actions took place in the community, what got accomplished during the same period of time and what data there is to support I0-2 -3- the conclusion that certain progress has been made. A scientifically valid cause-and-effect relationship between having taken a certain action and a future result need not be established. Our major concern is to show that certain actions were undertaken, certain things resulted and that the data bears out the fact that the results claimed in fact took place. We are asking for the next report to our Committee to be made on March 23, 1992 so that we can have some input into the final planning for the April 23, 1992 Coordinating Committee meeting and so that we can review the proposed outline for the evaluation of the impact the Action Plan has had on the community before it takes place. cc: County Administrator Health Services Director Alcohol Program Administrator Drug Program Administrator OSAP Project Coordinator Regional Coordinators (Via OSAP Project Coordinator)