To: Board of Supervisors
From: DHHS: Administration
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
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Agreement with Aspire Change - KLJ Training & Consulting for Fiscal Year 2019-20
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Approve, and authorize the Chair to execute, the agreement with Aspire Change - KLJ Training & Consulting for the provision of technical assistance and coaching that will assist the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to fully implement the Humboldt Practice Model for fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 in an amount not to exceed $123,500; and
2. Direct the Clerk of the Board to route the executed agreement to the DHHS - Contract Unit for forwarding to DHHS - Administration.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Social Services Fund
DISCUSSION:
Karen Lofts-Jarboe, president of Aspire Change - KLJ Training & Consulting, has over 30 years of experience as a practitioner, supervisor, manager, trainer, coach and consultant in child welfare and related fields. Ms. Lofts-Jarboe has extensive experience in program and practice implementation, inter-agency collaboration, and working with child welfare organizations, community and tribal partners and the Courts on system improvements. Ms. Lofts-Jarboe has specialty expertise with the Humboldt Practice Model (HPM), a set of values, practices and core elements that guide DHHS' work and interactions with community members, colleagues, customers, clients, patients and co-workers. DHHS is extending integration of HPM from its child welfare services origins into all DHHS branches and DHHS leadership uses the HPM to guide decisions and actions. This work of changing agency culture and organizational practice through HPM implementation addresses many issues brought up in the 2015 Wendi Brown Creative Partners Transition Organizational Assessment Study.
Ms. Lofts-Jarboe began work in June 2016 when Aspire Change - KLJ Training & Consulting executed its first agreement with DHHS f...
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