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File #: 24-4367    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Consent Item Status: Passed
File created: 11/27/2024 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 12/17/2024 Final action: 12/17/2024
Title: APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Dominican University of California, to provide supervised field instruction in the County’s Public Health Division for occupational therapy students for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030. (Non-financial agreement)
To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Unpaid Student Training Agreement #22-722-6 with Dominican University of California
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee


RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute, on behalf of the County Unpaid Student Training Agreement #22-722-6 with Dominican University of California, an educational institution, to provide field instruction in County's Public Health Division to occupational therapy students, from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030.

FISCAL IMPACT:
None, this is a non-financial Agreement.

BACKGROUND:
The purpose of this Agreement is to provide Dominican University of California students with the opportunity to integrate academic knowledge with applied skills at progressively higher levels of performance and responsibility. Supervised fieldwork experience for students is considered to be an integral part of both educational and professional preparation. The Health Services Department can provide the requisite field education, while at the same time, benefitting from the students' services to patients.

On March 31, 2020, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #22-722-5 with Dominican University of California, for the period from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2025 for the provision of supervised fieldwork instruction experience with Health Services.

Approval of Unpaid Student Training Agreement #22-722-6 will allow Dominican University of California, Occupational Therapy students to receive supervised fieldwork instruction experience, in County's Public Health Division, through June 30, 2030. This Agreement includes mutual indemnification to defend, save harmless, both parties for any claims arising out of the performance of this Contract.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this contract is not approved, the students will not receive supervised fieldwork instruction experience ...

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