Title
a. Receive a status update report in response to Board Referral No. 2021.19 seeking to create a Farmworker Resource Center that provides services and referrals in the community of Greenfield.
b. Provide further direction, as appropriate.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Receive a status update report in response to Board Referral No. 2021.19 seeking to create a Farmworker Resource Center that provides services and referrals in the community of Greenfield.
b. Provide further direction, as appropriate.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Referral No. 2021.19 was submitted by Supervisor Lopez on September 23, 2021 (see Attachment 1- Board Referral No. 2021.19) and assigned to the Agricultural Commissioner's Office, which provided a preliminary analysis report in response to the referral on October 26, 2021, and a more in-depth analysis on February 1, 2022. (See Attachment 2- update analysis report.) On this latter date, the Board directed staff to pursue AB 941 grant funding and appropriated $250,000 from the County's Cannabis Program funding for the creation of a Farmworker Resource Center in the community of Greenfield. (See Attachment 3- Board Order ID No. 22-088).
Background-
AB941- Farmworker Assistance: Resource Centers is a recently signed assembly bill that requires the State Department of Community Services (CSD) to establish a grant program for counties to establish farmworker resource centers that would provide farmworkers and their families information and access to services, ranging but not limited to the following; labor and unemployment rights, education, housing, immigration, and health and human services. At the February presentation, staff reported conducting outreach with the following organizations to learn about the services that should be provided in the Farmworker Resource Center; United Way, County Health Department, VIDA Project, County Social Services, Centro Binacional para el Desarollo Oaxaque?o...
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