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 beginning in pregnancy until the child's second birthday. NFP has been shown to have positive impacts on child and maternal health, rates of child abuse and neglect, long-term impacts on birth rates, rates of incarceration, educational successes, maternal employment and paternal capacity. In FY 2017-18 the NFP program received a $500 donation from Robin and Leonard Wolff. This donation will be used to purchase items that are not supported through grant funding to assist families.
County Employee Nancy Starck is the Humboldt County Commissioner for Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC). As a Commissioner she receives a compensation stipend of $100 for all Commission meetings attendee in-person at one of PHC*s regional offices other than the main location. Nancy Starck has opted to donate the sum of her stipends to the general Public Health Donations trust. To-date Nancy has donated a total of $490. This donation will be used to support Public Health activities that are not eligible for reimbursement through other sources.
In addition to the $2,190 donations detailed in this agenda item, there were donations of less than $200, equaling $5, to bring the total of donations received during fiscal year (FY) 2017-18 to $2,195.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
All donations in this report, amounting to $2,195 have been received and deposited into Fund 3910- Donations for Public Health Department. With these donations, current balance of donations in county trust for DHHS- Public Health is $25,668. These donation revenues and associated expenditures have been included in the FY 2017-18 adopted budget and the proposed budget for FY 2018-19. There is no impact to the General Fund.
OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT:
None
ALTERNATIVES TO STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
Board’s discretion
ATTACHMENTS:
None
PREVIOUS ACTION/REFERRAL:
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