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Support the request to:
a. Amend Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-16 Health Department Budget 4000-HEA003-8124 to reallocate 1.0 FTE Public Health Licensed Vocational Nurse to 1.0 FTE Public Health Nurse II; and
b. Amend Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-16 Health Department Budget 4000-HEA003-8124 to add 1.0 FTE Public Health Nurse II; and
c. Amend Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-16 Health Department Budget 4000-HEA003-8124 to add .25 FTE Management Analyst; and
d. Authorize the County Administrative Office to reflect approved changes in the Fiscal Year 2015-16 Adopted Budget.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisor's Budget Committee support the request to:
a. Amend Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-16 Health Department Budget 4000-HEA003-8124 to reallocate 1.0 FTE Public Health Licensed Vocational Nurse to 1.0 FTE Public Health Nurse II; and
b. Amend Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-16 Health Department Budget 4000-HEA003-8124 to add 1.0 FTE Public Health Nurse II; and
c. Amend Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-16 Health Department Budget 4000-HEA003-8124 to add .25 FTE Management Analyst; and
d. Authorize the County Administrative Office to reflect approved changes in the Fiscal Year 2015-16 Adopted Budget.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Recommendation to reallocate 1.0 FTE Public Health Licensed Vocational Nurse to 1.0 FTE Public Health Nurse II for assignment to the First 5 Monterey County and Targeted Case Management funded Teen Parenting Program. The Teen Parenting Program is a nurse home-visitation program that utilizes the Brazelton Touchpoints model of development to guide the nurse in building a strength-based partnership with the teen parent and offering support and modeling for parents to understand and enhance their young child's development. Each mother/baby pair receives up to eight visits with conversation topics aimed at increasing parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, and child's social and emotional development.
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