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Approve and authorize the Director of Health or Assistant Director of Health to execute Amendment No 1 to Mental Health Services Agreement #A-15270 with Harmony at Home to add the Teen Success Program for comprehensive, trauma-informed services for young women who become mothers as teens and their children and revise the total Agreement amount from $182,240 to $332,240 which represents an increase of $75,000 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-22, and $75,000 for FY 2022-23.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Approve and authorize the Director of Health or Assistant Director of Health to execute Amendment No 1 to Mental Health Services Agreement #A-15270 with Harmony at Home to add the Teen Success Program for comprehensive, trauma-informed services for young women who become mothers as teens and their children and revise the total Agreement amount from $182,240 to $332,240 which represents an increase of $75,000 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-22, and $75,000 for FY 2022-23.
SUMMARY:
Harmony at Home (HAH) is one of several local community-based agencies who submitted a response to the Health Department's Request for Proposal (RFP) #10787 for Prevention & Early Intervention (PEI) Services funded by the Mental Health Services Act. This proposed Amendment No. 1 will provide PEI funds for the expansion of the Teen Success program to serve residents of southern Monterey County beginning September 1, 2021.
DISCUSSION:
HAH has contracted with the Health Department's Behavioral Health Bureau since August 2009 to provide school-based counseling services for children who have been exposed to violence and trauma. During Fiscal Year 2020-21, the County released RFP #10787 in the effort to identify local agencies to provide family support services, especially to residents in underserved areas of Monterey County. HAH's proposal consists of the expansion of their Teen Success Program to serve young mothers who become pregnant as teens and their c...
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