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FROM: Danna Fabella, Interim Director ' County
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DATE: June 3, 2006 -
SUBJECT: Contract with Community Violence Solutions for the operation of the Children's Interview
Center.
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract
with Community Violence Solutions in an amount not to exceed$110,000 for the operation of the Children's
Interview Center for the period July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007. (#21-385)
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
$110,000: 100% County cost.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
This contract supports three of the five community outcomes established in the Children's Report Card: 2)
"Children and Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive Adulthood"4) "Families that are Safe, Stable, and
Nurturing" and 5) "Communities that are Safe and Provide a High Quality of Life for Children and Families."
BACKGROUND*
Community Violence Solutions in collaboration with the Employment and Human Services Department
(EHSD), the District Attorney's Office, the Sheriff's Department, and local Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA)
operates the multidisciplinary Children's Interview Center(CIC). CIC provides forensic interviews and/or
forensic exams to child victims of sexual abuse. It provides skilled interviewers in a child-friendly setting to
decrease the child's trauma by minimizing the number of interviews, and it has implemented standardized
evidence collection processes that increased the number of cases prosecuted.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: A�w jz&�
-- RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
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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.
ATTESTED U.- ,SL_ 127�r
JOHN CULLEN,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Contact: LINDA CANAN,3-1583
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