To: Board of Supervisors
From: DHHS: Public Health
SUBJECT:
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Donations Made to Public Health 2017-18
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors accept donations made to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - Public Health in the amount of $2,195 in support of Public Health's programs and services during the period of July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Public Health Funds
DISCUSSION:
Before your Board today is a request to accept the generous donations to DHHS-Public Health in the amount of $2,195.
The Eel River Chapter of the Good Sam Club had been donating to California Children's Services (CCS) for more than 20 years, and this year the CCS program received a $1,200 donation. The Eel River Good Sam Chapter is a group of recreational vehicle owners who get together one weekend per month to socialize, play games, share food, conduct fundraising activities and promote safe and courteous RVing. CCS is a statewide program that authorizes diagnosis and treatment services for children with certain physical limitations and chronic health conditions or diseases. CCS provides specialty pediatric physical and occupational therapy at the Medical Therapy Program (MTP) located at Glen Paul School in Eureka. DHHS-Public Health has been administering the MTP since 1980. The MTP caseload consists of children with a variety of diagnoses including rheumatoid arthritis, childhood cancers, chronic orthopedic conditions, cerebral palsy and infants with prenatal drug exposure.
The donation from The Eel River Good Sam Chapter to CCS is used to assist families in sending their children to camps for kids with specific health conditions as well as travel to out of the area medical appointments.
Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) is an evidence-based home visiting program in which first-lime, low-income mothers voluntarily enroll for home visitation by a Public Health Nurse who visits the family beginnin...
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