To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Report Title: Contract # 20-099-10 (CFS) Contract Renewal with Aspiranet
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Aspiranet in an amount not to exceed $2,910,813, to provide emergency shelter receiving center services for children taken into protective custody or transitioning through foster placements for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
FISCAL IMPACT:
70% 2011 State Realignment and 30% County General funds, all of which is budgeted in FY 25-26.
BACKGROUND:
The Receiving Centers serve as the hub of the Employment and Human Services Department (EHSD) Children and Family Services (CFS) emergency shelter system. Aspiranet provides temporary care at the Receiving Centers to children who have been taken into protective custody and children and youth who are transitioning into resource family (foster) placements. The Receiving Centers offer a homelike setting and are designed to promote stability in placement, focus on the needs of the individual child, minimize move, and support permanence at the early stages of EHSD intervention.
Recent contracts and amendments for these services with the contractor were previously approved by the Board of Supervisors on June 25, 2024 (C.75) for FY 23/25 (amendment), May 16, 2023 (C.40) for FY 23/24, June 21, 2022 (C.89) for FY 22/23, and on June 22, 2021 (C.96) for FY 21/22.
This vendor was selected per procurement requirements outlined in Administrative Bulletin 600.3.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
County will not have emergency temporary shelter locations with sufficient, qualified staffing nor availability to temporarily care for children taken into protective custody.
CHILDREN’S IMPACT STATEMENT:
This contract supports all five community outcomes established in the Children’s Report Card: 1) “Children Ready for and Succeeding in School”; 2) “Children and Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive Adulthood”; 3) “Families that are Economically Self Sufficient”; 4) Families that are Safe, Stable and Nurturing”; and 5) “Communities that are Safe and Provide a High Quality of Life for Children and Families,” by providing a temporary homelike environment for children entering and within the Child Welfare System.