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SUBJECT: FUNDING FOR THERAPEUTIC NURSERY SCHOOL
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
1 Authorize Health Services Department to grant a loan of $20, 000
to Therapeutic Nursery School.
2 . Remove this as a referral to the Finance Committee.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
To fulfill the need indicated by the Therapeutic Nursery School, it
will cost $20, 000. This will increase the deficit problem faced by
the Health Services Department in fiscal year 1989-1990.
BACKGROUND:
On March 14, 1989, the Board asked the Finance Committee to look into
the funding problems that the Therapeutic Nursery School (TNS) is
experiencing.
The Therapeutic Nursery school is a division of Early Childhood Mental
Health Programs. It is a private, non-profit preschool specializing
in a treatment program for children 2-1/2 to 5 years of age who have
social, emotional, behaviorial, language or learning difficulties.
The nursery school is designed for an enrollment of 8 to 10 children
referred from various sources. Referrals for enrollees served during
FY 88-89 include: Children' s Protective Services, DSS-2 ; Physician-1 ;
Parents-2 ; Daycare/Preschool-5 ; School District-3 ; and Community
Mental Health-1 . Other referral sources are: Family Maintenance-DSS,
Kaiser Hospital, Clinics and Public Health Nurses and other programs
of Early Childhood Mental Health Programs .
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: —YES SIGNATURE:
—RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR —RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMI E
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ACTION OF BOARD ON June 6, 1989 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X 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: Health Services Director ATTESTED &:M� 4 /top
Auditor-Controller PH AATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
County Administrator SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
BY -_DEPUTY
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The Therapeutic Nursery School has been operating at a deficit for
five fiscal years. The program will close if a source of $20, 000
cannot be found by June 30, 1989. Closure of TNS will eliminate the
only intensive day treatment program for preschool children in West
County.
This program was funded by a County Mental Health contract from June
1976 to August 1983 . Because of increasing service demands and no new
funds, the decision was made to discontinue funding this program, due
to the small number of children served, in order to reallocate the
funds to serve more West County families. TNS has been funded since
1983 with a combination of funds from United Way, private donations
and fundraising, school special education contracts, and Contra Costa
County Social Services AB 1733 contracts.
The program' s FY 86-87 deficit was funded by an emergency grant of
$31,000 from County Mental Health. The deficit of $20,000 in FY 87-88
was met from Early Childhood Mental Health Program' s cash flow
reserve. This reserve is not available to meet the deficit for this
fiscal year. The deficit situation will continue to occur unless a
stable funding source is found. The program' s budgeted deficit was to
be met through fundraising. The goal was $20,000; however, only
$12, 000 had been received by January 1989.