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FROM:
Phil Batchelor, County Administrator ' Costa
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SUBJECT: LEGISLATION - AB 3012 (Speier)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOI YEWDATION
Indicate that the Board of Supervisors continues to SUPPORT AB
3012 by Assemblywoman Speier which would establish pilot project
sites in four urban counties for a Family Drug Free Housing Pilot
Project which would provide onsite services to families with a
history of substance abuse who reside in a local housing
authority project.
BACKGROUND-
On March 13 , 1990 the Board of Supervisors voted to support AB
3012 . On April 16 , 1990 the bill was amended.
Assemblywoman Speier has introduced AB 3012 which includes
findings and declarations noting that the current drug epidemic
has diminished the quality of life for many residents of housing
projects in 'large urban areas and that local housing authorities
cannot attack the drug epidemic on their own and that the
recurrence of drug and alcohol abuse may lead to homelessness,
high-risk behavior, school dropouts, incarceration and child
abuse and neglect.
The bill would direct the State Department of Alcohol and Drug
Programs to establish pilot project sites in four participating
urban counties for the Family Drug Free Housing Pilot Project.
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RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
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SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON May 22, 1990 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I 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: ATTESTED MAY 2 2 1990
PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Please see Page 3 .
M382 (10/88)
BY DEPUTY
Counties chosen as project sites must do all of the following:
* Develop and implement a plan for interagency collaboration
* Provide support services at the pilot project site for
families with a history ' of substance abuse who reside in
local housing authority projects.
* These services shall be a continuation of treatment and
prevention services and shall include those support services
which seek to treat and to prevent the recurrence of the
abuse of alcohol and drugs.
* Support services provided by the project sites shall be
designed to encourage unification of the families in
drug-free family housing and to foster continued involvement
of those families in drug and alcohol recovery programs.
* The department is required to encourage counties
implementing the pilot programs to involve schools of social
work as cooperating agencies in the provision of support
services within a housing authority setting.
* The department is also required to establish guidelines for
the pilot projects based on the requirements of the federal
Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986.
* Each pilot project is to remain in operation for a period of
three years.
* By June 30 , 1993 each county in which the pilot project is
implemented shall report to the State Department .of Alcohol
and Drug Programs on the project in that county and the
accomplishments of the pilot project in effecting the
following outcomes:
* Success in maintaining drug-free housing in a housing
authority setting.
* The effectiveness of the continuation of, substance
abuse treatment within a housing program.
* The prevention of all of the following:
Foster Placements.
Homelessness.
High-risk behavior.
School dropouts.
Incarceration.
Child abuse and neglect.
The department is to report on the evaluation of the project.
The bill spells out criteria by which the success of the project
will be judged.
The State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs is required to
utilize otherwise unexpended funds from the Drug Free 'Schools and
Communities Act to fund this program.
The bill sunsets January 1, 1994 .
Passage and enactment of AB 3012 appears to have the potential to
assist the Board of Supervisors in furthering its war of drugs by
testing some additional methods of providing drug and alcohol
services in the setting of a housing authority. It is therefore
recommended that the Board of Supervisors indicate its support
for AB 3012.
cc: Assemblywoman Jackie Speier
County Administrator
Executive Director, Housing Authority
District Attorney
Sheriff-Coroner
Social Services Director
County Probation Officer
Health Services Director
Drug Program Administrator
Alcohol Program Administrator
Chair, Drug Abuse Advisory Board
Chair, Alcoholism Advisory Board
Les Spahnn, SRJ. Jackson, Barish & Associates
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