To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Report Title: CFS - Contract 20-494-2 Seneca Family of Agencies
?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 Seneca Family of Agencies, a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $770,987 to provide an Enhanced Intensive Services Foster Care Program delivering in home-based placement and intensive supportive services to Contra Costa County dependent foster youth for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$770,987: 70% State, 30% County General Fund, all of which is budgeted in FY 2025-2026.
BACKGROUND:
Seneca Family of Agencies (Seneca) provides an Enhanced Intensive Services Foster Care (E-ISFC) Program delivering in home-based placement and intensive supportive services for youth who cannot live safely in a family home, do not qualify to be placed in a Regional Center facility and/or are denied entry into lower-level placements due to acute, complex, emotional and behavioral needs. Seneca offers alternatives to repeated placement disruptions and provides additional staffing, professional caregivers, supports and services to house, stabilize, provide treatment, and to ultimately transition youth to less restrictive placements, including with family, standard resource family homes, or lower-level care licensed facilities as part of each youth's long-term permanency plan.
This action is to execute a contract renewal with Seneca Family of Agencies for the term July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. In August 2022, in alignment with County policy, EHSD Children and Family Services issued Request For Interest (RFI) #746 for High Acuity Needs Youth Residential of which Seneca was awarded a contract. On June 27, 2023, the Board approved item C.76 to execute a contract with Seneca for a term of...
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