To: Board of Supervisors
From: DHHS: Administration
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
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Allocate three full time equivalent (FTE) Community Health Outreach Worker I/II positions and one Program Coordinator position.
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Allocate three full time equivalent (FTE) Community Health Outreach Worker (CHOW) I/II positions (salary range 342/370, class 0511) in budget unit (BU) 520, effective beginning of pay period following approval;
2. Allocate one FTE Program Coordinator position (salary range 427, class 1425) in BU 520, effective beginning of pay period following approval.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Social Services Fund (1160)
DISCUSSION:
The Housing Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Program provides outreach activities to the homeless population in Humboldt County. Outreach activities include identifying and engaging people who are living in unsheltered locations and working with individuals to identify basic service needs while promoting a pathway toward housing stability. Basic service needs may include assistance in obtaining personal documentation such as birth certificates and other forms of identification, applying for CalFresh, Medi-Cal, cash assistance and Social Security, completing housing applications and connecting with behavioral health services.
Outreach services are performed in teams consisting of a Program Coordinator and four Community Health Outreach Workers (CHOWS) or Peer Coaches. The HOME Program currently operates one team that serves all of Humboldt County. It has been identified that there is a need to increase the number of teams performing outreach activities to serve the whole county more effectively. This request will allocate three additional CHOW positions and one Program Coordinator to form one additional outreach team. This will allow the outreach teams to perform services in opposite sides of the county simultaneously. Approval of the ...
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