File #: 19-760    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Informational Report Status: Passed
File created: 5/14/2019 In control: DHHS: Social Services
On agenda: 6/4/2019 Final action: 6/4/2019
Title: Authorization for the Department of Health and Human Services - Director of Social Services to Sign Grant Agreements with Community/Family Resource Centers for CalWORKs and CalFresh Outreach and Support Activities for Fiscal Year 2019-20
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. List of participating Community/Family Resource Centers with the amount of CalWORKs and CalFresh outreach and support activities grant funds each center is scheduled to receive, 3. Sample grant agreement for the CalWORKs and CalFresh outreach and support activities
Previous Action/Referral: 22-644, 23-626

To: Board of Supervisors

From: DHHS: Social Services

Agenda Section: Consent

SUBJECT:
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Authorization for the Department of Health and Human Services - Director of Social Services to Sign Grant Agreements with Community/Family Resource Centers for CalWORKs and CalFresh Outreach and Support Activities for Fiscal Year 2019-20
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Approve the proposed grant agreement amounts, totaling $1,059,645, with the Community/Family Resource Centers (CRCs/FRCs) participating with CalWORKs and CalFresh outreach and support activities for fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 (Attachment 1);
2. Authorize the Department of Health and Human Services - Director of Social Services, or their designee, to sign individual grant agreements with the CRCs/FRCs participating with CalWORKs and CalFresh outreach and support activities substantially in the form of the attached sample grant agreement upon proof of insurance;
3. Authorize the Department of Health and Human Services - Director of Social Services or their designee to amend the grant agreement as necessary for FY 2019-20 after review and approval by County Counsel and Risk Management; and
4. Direct the Clerk of the Board to return one executed Board agenda item to the DHHS-Contract Unit for transmittal to DHHS - Social Services Administration.

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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Social Services Fund

DISCUSSION:
On March 22, 2005 (item D-4), the Board approved the plan to allow the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to finance child welfare improvement activities through grant funding to CRCs/FRCs. Funding to CRCs/FRCs increases the county's ability to provide situation appropriate responses to reports of child abuse and/or neglect as defined in the county's departmental differential response (DR) goals and objectives.

Since FY 2007-08, DHHS has offered grant funding to eligible CRCs/FRCs from the DHHS CalWORKs allocation. CalWORKs is California'...

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