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FROM: William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director Via.
By: Jacqueline Pigg, Contracts Administrator >,; __<< Costa
DATE: October 22, 2007 County��
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SUBJECT: Authorization to accept grant award #28-777 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Administration
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director or his designee (Wendel Brunner, M.D.), to accept a grant
award #28-777 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, to pay the County an amount not
to exceed $374,826, to provide integrated health, mental health, and substance abuse services for chronically
homeless individuals in housing for the period from October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2012.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Acceptance of the award will result in an amount not to exceed $374,826 annually through the Substance
Abuse Mental Health Administration (SAMSHA) for the County's Homeless Program Project Coming Home
program. (No County fiends are required)
BACKGROUND/IZEASON(S) FOR RECOMMENDATION(S):
Project Coming Home is a collaborative and comprehensive approach to addressing the problems of
homelessness of our most vulnerable citizens. The County Homeless Program will work with various
community-based organizations and other County programs such as Health Care for the Homeless to provide
a comprehensive and integrated strategy to assist chronically homeless individuals to move off of the streets
into perm anent.housing with supportive services
Three sealed and certified copies of the Board should be returned to the Contracts and Grants Unit.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
_RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
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SIGNATURES): 00,
ACTION OF BOARD N 4 V APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTES OF SUPERVI RSI r I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT T IS IS A TRUE
l�UNANIMOUS (ABSENT /w,{6„Y, n- AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
AYES: NOES:
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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ATTESTED 0 V Contact Person: Wendel Brunner, M.D. (313-6712) JOHN CULLEN, CLERK OF THE BfOARD OF
CC: Health Services Department (Contracts) SUP RVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Grantor
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