Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise Rogers, Chief, Health System
Cassius Lockett, PhD, Director, Public Health, Policy and Planning
Subject: Measure K: Agreement with Raimi and Associates to conduct community planning.
RECOMMENDATION:
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Measure K: Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with Raimi and Associates to conduct community planning in four prioritized neighborhoods within San Mateo County for the term of March 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, in an amount not to exceed $358,900.
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BACKGROUND:
In the fall of 2016, the County Manager's Office asked the County's youth-serving departments to recommend new investments in youth success using census tract and client data from the Health System, Human Services Agency, and criminal justice departments. In December of 2016, your Board approved the allocation of $500,000 in Measure K resources for a community planning and asset mapping effort to address the neighborhoods in which we see the greatest proportion of youth ending up in our most intensive services (e.g. Child Welfare, Juvenile Probation and Behavioral Health and Recovery Services). The Community Collaboration for Children's Success (CCCS) project has been a joint undertaking of the Health System, Human Services Agency and criminal justice departments to collectively address the needs of the County's most at-risk youth.
The first stage of the CCCS project was a review of data, which identified a trend of youth and families in the County's most intensive youth services coming from similar geographies in the County. Given the County's diversity of communities, a community planning effort was selected as the best approach to work with community leaders, residents and impacted communities to identify tailored interventions that can overcome community-identified specific barriers and improve outcomes for children and families. Further analysis i...
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