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Consent-Health & Human Services # 21.
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| Board of Supervisors |
Child, Youth & Family |
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| Subject |
Approve agreement with First 5 Yolo for the Help Me Grow Program in the amount of $675,000 from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2020 for universal mental health screening to parents and their children ages 0-5 years. (No general fund impact) (Larsen)
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| Recommended Action |
Approve agreement with First 5 Yolo for the Help Me Grow Program in the amount of $675,000 from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2020 for universal mental health screening to parents and their children ages 0-5 years.
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| Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
Operational Excellence
Thriving Residents
Safe Communities
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| Reason for Recommended Action/Background |
On April 12, 2017, HHSA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a qualified community based organization to provide an Early Childhood Mental Health Access and Linkage program. HHSA received two proposals from this solicitation. Both proposals submitted were evaluated and the proposal for the Help Me Grow Program from First 5 Yolo was determined to best meet the required qualifications necessary to implement the program. The following chart provides a summary of the RFP evaluation criteria and the proposals received:
RFP Service Requested:
Early Childhood Mental Health Access and Linkage Program
Evaluation criteria included in RFP:
- Company overview (20 points)
- Experience and past performance (30 points)
- Responsiveness/Responsibility (10 points)
- Proposer’s approach to project (50 points)
- Pricing requirements (30 points)
- Quality assurance and oversight (20 points)
- Outputs and Outcome Measures (40 points)
- Financial Information (Pass/Fail)
Bids received: |
| First 5 Yolo |
$675,000 |
| Victor Community Support Services |
$673,809 |
The attached contract with First 5 Yolo for Help Me Grow Yolo (HMG) will provide programming for universal mental health screening to parents and their children ages 0-5 years in order to identify young children who are either at risk of or beginning to develop mental health problems that are likely to impact their healthy development. In addition, this program will connect children and their families to services that would either prevent or intervene early to address mental health problems impacting healthy development. HMG expands and enhances these identification and intervention services in order to further the effectiveness and sustainability of other First 5 Yolo programs, which assist the community in raising children who are healthy and ready to learn. Ensuring access to the treatment young children need and deserve will mitigate more advanced issues later in life. HMG provides for this early childhood mental health system approach by creating access and linkage in a multitude of settings from family to school to medical and other service providers.
Approval for this Agreement will support the funding for two HMG Outreach Specialists (2.0 FTE) at Northern California Children’s Therapy Center. The Specialists will expand Child Welfare Services (CWS) outreach to provide additional training and assistance to CWS case workers in assessing and linking children to services, provide follow up on all referrals made by CWS, and connect all foster families to HMG Yolo screenings. They will also provide training to agencies on developmental screenings and training to communities to ensure awareness of HMG and participation in screenings.
The performance measures included in the contract for services are:
Help Me Grow Yolo
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First 5 Yolo
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Gina Daleiden, Executive Director
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Program Purpose
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To provide universal mental health screening to parents and their children ages 0-5 years to identify young children who are either at risk of or beginning to develop mental health problems that are likely to impact their healthy development. In addition, this program will connect children and their families to services that would either prevent or intervene early to address mental health problems impacting healthy development. |
Program Information
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Help Me Grow Yolo (HMG) expands and enhances identification and intervention services to young children facing mental health challenges and further the effectiveness and sustainability of First 5 Yolo programs, which assist the community to raise children who are health and ready to learn.
HMG allows for prevention and early identification of developmental concerns to allow young children 0-5 years of age access to the treatment they need and deserve, mitigating for more advanced issues later in life. HMG provides for this early childhood mental health system approach to prevention and early intervention, creating access and linkage in a multitude of settings from family to school to medical and other service providers. |
| PM1: How much did we do? |
Customers
Units of Service |
Demographic data reported:
Number of beneficiaries served, by gender, age of child at time of initial entry, race/ethnicity of child, culture if known, or disability (e.g. hearing impaired, seeing impaired, wheel-chair bound)
Number of trainings conducted for agencies/programs (outreach)
Number of trained individuals on the HMG Yolo services (parents, providers, community agencies)
Report of who contacted HMG Yolo on behalf of the child
Number of calls to the Call Center
Services to which child/family referrals were made (# and % of each)
Presenting issues (# and % of each)
Number of screenings completed based on screening tools (ASQ-3, ASQ-SE, M-CHAT, SEEK)
Number of medical providers participating in HMG Yolo |
| PM2: How well did we do it? |
| 2.1 |
# and % of how each child screened heard about/entered HMG Yolo (compare to marketing plan) |
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Wait time for delivery of results after screenings |
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# and % of subsequent screenings that are performed for children who fall into the “monitoring” category |
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# and % indicated on the Caregiver/Provider Satisfaction Survey as satisfied with the tools, information, skills, and supports provided to properly support optimal family growth |
PM3: Is anyone better off? |
| 3.1 |
# and % of children successfully connected to at least one service or pending a start date due to a “concern” referral |
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# and % of children rescreened with an improved score after referrals were made due to a “monitor” result |
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# and % of service/program gaps identified |
| 3.4 |
# and % of barriers identified |
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| Collaborations (including Board advisory groups and external partner agencies) |
County Counsel has approved this agreement as to form.
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| Source of Funds for this Expenditure |
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Explanation (Expenditure and/or Revenue) |
| Further explanation as needed: |
There are no general funds required for this Agreement. This Agreement will be funded by the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), as set forth in Yolo County’s MHSA Three-Year Programs and Expenditure Plan for FYs 2017-2020. First 5 Yolo is also matching the MHSA funds dollar-for-dollar.
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