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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director Contra
Costa
DATE: January 5, 1995 County
SUBJECT: Approve Submission of Funding Application #28-566 to the State of
California, Department of Health Services
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve submission of Funding Application #28-566 to the State of
California, Department of Health Services (State & Local Injury
Control Section) , in the amount of $180, 000, for the period from
Fe,bruary 1, 1995 through January 31, 1998, for the Catalyzing
Community Violence Prevention: Leadership, Training and Assistance
Project.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Approval of the application for this project will result in $180, 000
from the State for the period from February 1, 1995 through January,
31, 1998. No County funds are required.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
This grant will allow the Department •to maintain consistent violence
prevention activities and move towards a broadly-based systems
approach. By building on its previous prevention activities, the
Department's Prevention Program will begin to make the transition from
fostering community support for violence prevention to generating a
broad set of actions capable of producing widespread change.
Project goals are to: (1) convene a county-wide Violence Prevention
Task Force; (2) increase knowledge and skills of individuals from
local governments, schools, community organizations, neighborhood
associations, youth agencies, and, other groups; and (3) provide
technical, planning, and public information assistance to those groups
to enable them to expand existing, or initiate new, collaborative
violence prevention activities county-wide.
In order to meet the deadline for submission, the application has been
forwarded to the State, but subject to Board approval. Four certified
and sealed copies of the Board Order authorizing submission of the
application should be returned to the Contracts and Grants Unit.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON A.4 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED 77� OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
_ZUNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Contact.: Wendel Brunner, M.D. (313-6712)
CC: Health Services Dept. (Contracts) ATTESTED /7 S�
State Dept. of Health Services Phil atchelor, Cler of the Board of
Supervisors aW County Administrator
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