To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Report Title: # 20-580-1 Pacific Clinics for the Comprehensive Prevention Plan Program
☒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 Pacific Clinics, in an amount not to exceed $800,000, to provide Comprehensive Prevention Plan Program services for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% Federal, all of which is budgeted in FY 25-26.
BACKGROUND:
In February 2018 the Bipartisan Budget Act which included the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) was signed into law. An objective of FFPSA is to amend the Title IV-E foster care program to enhance support services to families to prevent entry to foster care.
In July 2021, California’s Family First Prevention Services (FFPS) program was established to support the development and implementation of Title IV-E prevention services, and to address rates of recidivism and disproportionality in child welfare and juvenile probation.
Contra Costa County Children and Family Services (CFS) and Probation opted into the FFPS program as co-leads, and partnered with community representatives to develop a Comprehensive Prevention Plan (CPP). The vision of the CPP is that all children and families in Contra Costa County are supported by services and systems that are accessible, have an equitable approach, include culturally and linguistically responsive services, and celebrate all aspects of diversity. Contra Costa County’s CPP was approved by the California Department of Social Services in July 2023, and on August 8, 2023, the Employment and Human Services (EHSD) Children and Family Services (CFS) Bureau presented the plan to the Board of Supervisors.
In December 2023, in alignment with County policy, EHSD issued Request For Proposal (RFP) #1206 for the CPP Program which Pacific Clinics was awarded. On September 1, 2024, Pacific Clinics began providing CPP Program services in Antioch, CA. If approved, Pacific Clinics will continue to provide CPP Program services in Antioch, CA for a term of July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
The CPP Program provides a community pathway to trauma informed and evidenced based services including in home parenting programs, case management services, educational support, transportation, and the provision of concrete supports. Additionally, the CPP Program offers Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Level Services in order to enhance and expedite access to services and strengthen the Antioch community’s ability to meet family’s needs when they are at their crisis point before system involvement is required. The CPP Program’s outcomes include increasing the number of children/youth who can remain safely home with their parents, decreasing the number of children/youth who enter foster care and Juvenile probation, creating more equitable access to services, and addressing issues of disproportionate numbers of children/youth of color who enter the foster care and Juvenile Probation systems.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Should the proposed action not be approved by the Board of Supervisors, the County will not be able to continue to implement and provide services in accordance with Contra Costa County’s Comprehensive Prevention Plan, including a community pathway to trauma informed and evidenced based services which will strengthen the community and decrease the risk of children and their families entering the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
CHILDREN’S IMPACT STATEMENT:
This contract supports all five of Contra Costa County’s community outcomes of 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.”