To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Report Title: Contract # 20-494-1 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, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$770,987: (70% State 2011 Realignment Revenues, 30% County General Fund), all of which will be budgeted in FY 24-25.
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.
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 Placement of which Seneca was awarded a contract. On June 27, 2023, the Board approved item (C.76) to execute a contract with Seneca in an amount not to exceed $770,987 to provide an Enhanced Intensive Services Foster Care Program ...
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