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Consent-Health & Human Services # 26.
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| Board of Supervisors |
Employment & Social Services |
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| Approve the Yolo County Community Services Block Grant Community Action Plan for the two year period from January 2014 through December 2015. (No general fund impact) (Smith) |
| Recommended Action |
- Approve the Plan as recommended by the Community Services Action Board (CSAB);
- Authorize the Chair to sign the 2014/2015 Community Action Plan;
- Authorize the Department of Employment and Social Services Director to sign all necessary forms or minor amendments;
- Adopt the Community Services Action Board Goals; and
- Authorize the Community Services Action Board to release a Request for Proposal (RFP) to execute the action plan.
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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 CSBG program provides services to assist low-income people in attaining skills, knowledge and motivation to achieve self-sufficiency. The program also provides low-income people with immediate life necessities such as food, shelter, health care needs, etc.
During Program Year 2012-2013, the County of Yolo received $270,333 to provide much needed services. Funds in the amount of $180,000 were allocated to five contractors to provide housing and food for low-income people and the homeless, rural food delivery, elderly nutrition programs, homelessness prevention, transitional housing, and a day shelter. Additional funds were set aside to support the Cold Weather Shelter and the Homeless Coordinator.
In preparation for Program Year 2014-2015, the department held six public forums and distributed surveys to the communities and made the survey available on-line. With the results from the forums and surveys, along with discussion and approval at the May 21, 2013 CSAB meeting, the following priorities were established:
1. Food assistance programs, such as food distribution centers, food closets, meals delivery for homebound seniors and disabled individuals, hot meal programs, etc.; and other emergency food assistance programs.
2. Housing assistance programs, emergency shelters and transitional housing programs. Many of these programs provide some of the needed services described in our community needs survey: mental health counseling, substance abuse counseling, employment assistance, life skills, job readiness, and assistance accessing permanent housing. They also serve to help with homeless prevention programs such as utility assistance, rental assistance, eviction prevention assistance and assistance to homeless and low-income individuals to overcome barriers to accessing and maintaining permanent housing
3. Programs that provide comprehensive, culturally competent self-sufficiency services for homeless and low-income youth, families, and individuals, including employment and employment services, where appropriate, in order to proactively address the root causes of poverty.
The County will continue to use Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds to support the County One Stop centers for employment and training services for adult job seekers and for services to individuals who have lost their jobs due to plant closures or mass layoffs. These funds will also provide services for disadvantaged youth who have dropped out of school to develop basic job skills
4. Continue to fund the Homeless Coordinator who is instrumental in developing and maintaining grant funding to support the work of local community based organizations and agencies that serve the poor. As a result of decreasing State and Federal funding the Homeless Coordinator explores both public and private grant opportunities. The Homeless Coordinator also provides cohesion for Yolo County’s Continuum of Care process and drafts the Continuum of Care plan. |
| Other Agency Involvement |
| The Community Services Action Board (CSAB) has approved the Community Action Plan. Other County departments, County non-profit agencies, and the Homeless and Poverty Action Coalition assisted in the development of this plan. |
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Explanation (Expenditure and/or Revenue) |
| Further explanation as needed: |
| This is only approval of the action plan. |
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