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Mark Finucane, Health Services Director O` Contra
FROM: By: Elizabeth A. Spooner, Contracts Administrator
Costa
DATE: May 4, 1990 County
Notice of Award #29-394 from the State Department of Health "
SUBJECT: Services for Immigrant Public Health Supplemental Grant
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Accept $38,500 from the State Department of Health Services Tuberculosis Control
and Refugee Health Programs Unit for the period January 2,:1990 through June 30
1990, for the Immigrant Public Health Supplemental Grant.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
This award by the State results in $38,500 of State funding for the Immigrant
Public Health Program. Sources of funding are as follows .
$38,500 State Department of Health Services
38.211 County In-Kind
$76,711 Total Program
This is the first year of funding for this project.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
For over seven years the County has participated in the Refugee Preventive Health
Services Program with the State Department of Health Service's. Program funds are
used to provide interpreter services by trained bilingual Health Aides to assist
medical staff to provide needed health services to Contra Costa's extensive
refugee population.
The Health Services Department recently received the notice of award from the
State Department of Health Services, granting the Department $38,500 of funding
for the Immigrant Public Health Program.
Acceptance of this award will enhance the Basic Refugee Project to expand
interpreter services to newly arriving Afghan, Laotian, Russian and Eastern Block
refugees to provide health screening services to minimize the prevalence of
preventable problems of public health significance.
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OF SUPERVISORS ON THE-DATE SHOWN.
CC; Health Services (Contracts) ATTESTED MAY 2 2 1990
Auditor—Cont.roller (Claims) Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
State Dept. of Health Services
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