To: Board of Supervisors
From: DHHS: Administration
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
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First Amendment to the Agreement with Aspire Change - KLJ Training & Consulting for Fiscal Year 2018-19
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Approve, and authorize the Chair of the Board to execute, the attached first amendment to the professional services agreement with Aspire Change - KLJ Training & Consulting for the provision of technical assistance and coaching for the period of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, increasing the maximum amount payable from $110,500 to $124,500; and
2. Direct the Clerk of the Board to return the executed first amendment to the professional services agreement with Aspire Change - KLJ Training & Consulting to the Department of Health & Human Services - Contract Unit for further processing.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Social Services Fund
DISCUSSION:
On June 26, 2018 (Item C-10), the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) entered into an agreement with Aspire Change - KLJ Training & Consulting to provide technical assistance and coaching to strengthen the capacities of DHHS to organize, align and sustain key implementation infrastructure and processes within systems contexts to fully implement 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 continues to extend integration of HPM from its origins within Child Welfare Services 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 of Aspire Change - KLJ Training & Consulting is directly coaching leadership staff and va...
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