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Consent-Health & Human Services # 21.
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| Board of Supervisors |
Employment & Social Services |
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| Subject |
| Adopt budget resolution to increase appropriations for the Wraparound Trust Fund in the amount of $60,000 and approve the second amendment to Agreement No. 10-100 with CommuniCare Health Centers, Inc. to increase fiscal year 2012-13 funding by $10,000 and increase fiscal year 2013-14 funding by $10,000 to provide additional supervised visitation services and pay for other expenditures. (No general fund impact) (4/5 vote required) (Smith) |
| Recommended Action |
- Adopt the budget resolution increasing appropriations for the Wraparound Trust Fund in the amount of $60,000 for fiscal year (FY) 2012-13.
- Approve and authorize the chair to sign the second amendment to Agreement No. 10-100 with CommuniCare Health Centers, Inc., (CommuniCare) for additional supervised visitation services for clients referred by the Department of Employment and Social Services (DESS), increasing the compensation for fiscal years 2012-13 and 2013-14 by $10,000 each fiscal year.
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| Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
Collaborate to maximize success
Enhance and sustain the safety net
Provide fiscally sound, dynamic and responsive services |
| Reason for Recommended Action/Background |
The legislation that created the Wraparound program requires that: 1) the program be cost neutral to the counties (the child must be at imminent risk of out-of-home placement or stepping down from a higher level of placement so the foster care funds would be, or are, being spent), and 2) savings from the program be invested in services and supports that assist children and families in Yolo County. The California Department of Social Services approved the Yolo County Wraparound plan in 2008 and the county implemented the Wraparound Services program (Wrap) on March 1, 2008. One aspect of our plan was to pay our contracted Wraparound provider a capitated rate for non-federally eligible youth, thus creating savings to the program for additional services and supports to youth and families in Yolo County. Those savings are maintained in the Wraparound Trust Fund. The plan allows the Wraparound Leadership Team, comprised of managers from the referring agencies -- DESS, Probation and ADMH -- to hear requests from those same referring agencies to utilize the Wraparound savings for services and/or supports. The Team approved travel associated with attendance at the Wraparound Conference in June 2012, an outcome data collection and analysis on our contracted provider by an independent analysis team, and training for staff and community partners on Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). In December 2012, DESS presented a request to the Wraparound Leadership Team for additional funds to support the increase in supervised visits being ordered by the juvenile court; this request was subsequently approved. By using the Wraparound Trust Fund to provide increased supervised visitation services, we support parents that are attempting to reunify with their children and provide coaching and support and a positive, safe and neutral environment where children and their caregivers can be assured of safe visitation services for the child (ren) and parent that will enhance the child/parent relationship.
There continues to be an increase in court-ordered visitation services in the current fiscal year, and these required services are expected to continue to grow. CommuniCare currently provides Supervised Visitation Services in Woodland and West Sacramento for 45 hours per week. The increased funding will provide 55 hours of court-ordered supervised visitation services per week for the period of January 1 - June 30, 2013 and 50 hours per week in FY 2013-14. The number of visits in FY 2012-13 began January 1, 2013; therefore, the additional funding will provide more weekly visits in the remainder of 2012-13 than it will in FY 2013-14. These services are provided during the work day, after hours and on weekends to non-custodial parents and their children. The services are primarily provided at the CommuniCare offices in Woodland and West Sacramento, but are flexible and can be provided in the DESS offices or other sites that best meet the needs of the families. |
| Other Agency Involvement |
| County Counsel has approved as to form. |
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| Fiscal Impact |
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| Source of Funds for this Expenditure |
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Explanation (Expenditure and/or Revenue) |
| Further explanation as needed: |
| Realignment 2011 funds are available and will be transferred into Fund 112. Realignment impact $60,000 for fiscal year 2012-13 and $10,000 for fiscal year 2013-14 |
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