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COUNTY OF SAN MATEO
Inter-Departmental Correspondence
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Probation Department
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DATE:
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May 30, 2006
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BOARD MEETING DATE:
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June 20, 2006
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SPECIAL NOTICE/HEARING:
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Not required
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VOTE REQUIRED:
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Majority
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TO:
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Honorable Board of Supervisors
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FROM:
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Loren Buddress, Chief Probation Officer
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SUBJECT:
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Authorize San Mateo County’s participation in the Juvenile Probation and Camps Funding (JPCF) program will result in Fiscal Year 2005-06 funding of $3,201,176.
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RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution:
A. Authorizing San Mateo County participation in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Juvenile Probation and Camps Funding (JPCF) program.
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B. Authorizing the Chief Probation Officer to execute all agreements and related documents necessary to secure state funding for the County’s participation in the JPCF program in the current and future fiscal years.
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VISION ALIGNMENT:
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Commitment: Provide effective programs that help at risk-youth, help children grow up in healthy and safe homes and neighborhoods, maintain public safety, and involve effective collaborations and strategic approaches to issues in the County.
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Goal(s): 6, 7, 8 and 22. This transaction will provide funding to continue collaborative efforts that will result in providing a wide variety of critical services to more than 13,000 at-risk school age youth, parents and guardians, and to siblings.
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BACKGROUND:
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Authorization will assure the continuation of $3,201,176 annually in state allocated funding. While these funds were previously received via the TANF process, recent amendments to the Welfare & Institutions Code restructure the fund acquisition process and provide that the JPCF Programs shall be administered through agreements with all county Probation Departments that receive funding.
The Probation Department will annually apply for these funds in future fiscal years.
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DISCUSSION:
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JPCF funding will partially offset the cost of programming for youth housed at the Juvenile Hall and at Camp Glenwood, and for camp graduates who have been placed in the Camp Furlough program. A portion of the staffing costs associated with the Parenting Program and the Risk Prevention Program, which provides probation officer services to middle and high schools throughout the County, and the Sheriff’s Youth Diversion program, are funded via this allocation. Additionally $756,408 is distributed annually to community based organizations (CBOs) for program services. The CBO partners include Youth and Family Enrichment Services, Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse, Fresh Lifelines for Youth and the Mid-Peninsula Boys and Girls Club, which have all signed 30-month contracts to provide agreed upon services through June 30, 2007.
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FISCAL IMPACT:
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The funds were included in the fiscal year 2005-06 adopted budget, but not released by the State Corrections Standards Authority (CSA) until 2006. (Funding had been delayed until the CSA had finalized the application process and distributed the required JPCF Agreement to counties.) The funding source is the Juvenile Probation and Camps Funding program, and was received in prior years under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Action taken today assures receipt of these revenues as reflected in the department’s current budget.
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