COUNTY OF SAN MATEO

Inter-Departmental Correspondence

Human Services Agency

DATE:

June 9, 2010

BOARD MEETING DATE:

August 10, 2010

SPECIAL NOTICE/HEARING:

None

VOTE REQUIRED:

Majority

TO:

Honorable Board of Supervisors

FROM:

Beverly Beasley Johnson, J.D., Director, Human Services Agency

SUBJECT:

Agreement with Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse

RECOMMENDATION:

Adopt a Resolution authorizing:

A) The President of the Board to execute an Agreement with Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse (CORA) to provide child abuse prevention and intervention services for the term of upon execution to June 30, 2013, in the amount of $180,000 of which there is no Net County Cost; and

B) The Director of the Human Services Agency (HSA) or the Director’s designee to execute contract amendments which modify the County’s maximum fiscal obligation by no more than $25,000 (in aggregate), and/or modify the contract term and/or services so long as the modified term or services is/are within the current or revised fiscal provisions.

BACKGROUND:

The Children’s Collaborative Action Team (CCAT) is designated the Child Abuse Prevention Council of San Mateo County. It exists to develop, implement and continually refine a collaborative interagency system of children’s services that provides for a continuum of care from prevention to treatment. HSA provides administrative support to CCAT and requested proposals for providing child abuse prevention and intervention services.

The ultimate goal of the programs and services is to provide assistance to at-risk families before children are abused and neglected in order to support the stabilization of families and maintenance of children in their homes. An emphasis is to provide services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate to the population served.

DISCUSSION:

In March 2010, HSA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention and Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) Programs. CORA is one of the eight Contractors that was selected for funding under this RFP. (See RFP Matrix attached)

CORA will provide supportive services for children and their parents through the housing program in order to decrease the likelihood of child abuse and increase stability among families impacted by domestic violence.

Children who are victims of domestic violence also experience an increased risk of child abuse from the batterer and child neglect from the non-offending parent.  CORA will be providing supportive housing services to the children and parents who reside in their shelter housing program (where residents can reside for up to 8 weeks) and the transitional housing program (where residents can reside up to 2 years).  Children will be provided with intake assessments that evaluate their physical and emotional development and age-appropriate safety planning activities. Parents will be provided with intake assessments, referrals to community resources that will promote child development and family stability as well as parent education that will increase positive parenting skills. 

The Contractor has assured compliance with the County's Contractor Employee Jury Service Ordinance, as well as all other contract provisions that are required by County ordinance and administrative memoranda, including but not limited to insurance, hold harmless, non-discrimination and equal benefits. County Counsel has reviewed and approved this Agreement and the Resolution as to form and Risk Management has approved the Contractor’s insurance for this Agreement.

Approval of this Agreement contributes to Shared Vision 2025 Outcome of a Healthy Community by promoting child abuse prevention awareness strategies and early intervention services which will reduce incidence of child abuse in the community. It is anticipated that 90% of parents participating in the parenting classes will indicate reduced parenting stress in FY 2010-11, and that there will be a gradual increases in FY 2011-12 and FY 2012-13.

Performance Measure(s):

Measure

FY 2010 -11

Target

FY 2011-12
Target

FY 2012-13

Target

Percentage of parents that participate in Building Emotional Understanding parenting classes will indicate reduced parenting stress.

90%

91%

92%

FISCAL IMPACT:

The term of the Agreement is upon execution through June 30, 2013. The total obligation of this Agreement is $180,000, of which, all is state Child Welfare Services Revenue and there is no Net County Cost. Funds have been included in the FY 2010-11 tentatively Adopted Budget and will be included in the FY 2011-12 and FY 2012-13 Recommended Budgets.

1.

General description of RFP

Human Services Agency requested proposals from nonprofit agencies to provide an array of services for a continuum of care that would be comprised of child abuse prevention and intervention and/or family support and stability programs. The ultimate goal of these programs and services is to provide assistance to at-risk families before children are abused and neglected in order to support the stabilization of families and maintenance of children in their homes. An emphasis is to provide services that shall be culturally and linguistically appropriate to the population served.

2.

List key evaluation criteria

Needs; Licensure; Agency qualifications;

Ability to serve the populations; Strategies;

Budget and costs.

3.

Where advertised

A funding alert was mailed to numerous nonprofit agencies as a means of informing interested applicants of the RFP opportunity. The funding alert established that the RFP could be e-mailed or mailed to interested applicants. Interested applicants also were provided with the choice of picking up the RFP in person. The funding alert also indicated that the RFP would be posted on the CCAT website. Finally, an announcement of the release of the RFP was also sent to nonprofit agencies through the County’s Community Information Program (CIP) E-Blast.

4.

In addition to any advertisement, list others to whom the RFP announcement was sent

Refer to item number 3 for specific details

5.

Total number of RFP’s sent to prospective proposers

222 nonprofit agencies as well as numerous nonprofit agencies who receive the County’s CIP E-Blast.

6.

Number of proposals received

13 proposals were received.

7.

Who evaluated the proposals

a.) Becky Arredondo, Program Manager, Human Services Agency

b.) Pat Miljanich, Executive Director, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)

c.) Mary Hansell, Director, Family Health Services Department

d.) Marissa Saludes, Management Analyst, Human Services Agency

e.) Shawneece Stevenson, Prevention Program Supervisor, Golden Gate Regional Center

8.

In alphabetical order, names of proposers (or finalists, if applicable) and location

a.) Cabrillo Unified School District (Half Moon Bay)

b.) Community Legal Services in EPA (East Palo Alto)

c.) Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse (CORA) (San Mateo)

d.) Daly City Peninsula Partnership – Our Second Home (Daly City)

e.) Family & Children Services (Palo Alto) through Partnership with Institute for Human & Social Development (South San Francisco)

f.) Family Connections (Redwood City)

g.) Friends for Youth (Redwood City)

h.) Institute for Human & Social Development (South San Francisco)

i.) National Tongan Pacific American Office (San Mateo)

j.) Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center (San Mateo)

k.) Peninsula Family YMCA (San Mateo) in Collaboration with Samaritan House (San Mateo) – CHAMPS (Community Helping Adults Manage Parenting Stress)

l.) Puente de la Costa Sur (Pescadero)

m.) Redwood City School District (Redwood City)