Memorandum
Date: February 9, 2021
To: The Honorable Bruno Sabatier, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Crystal Markytan, Social Services Director
Subject: Approve Contract between the County of Lake and Lake Family Resource Center for Cal-Learn Services in the amount of $50,000 from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, and authorize the Chair to sign.
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
For multiple years now, Lake County Social Services has partnered with Lake Family Resource Center (LFRC) to provide necessary services and resources through the Cal-Learn program to parenting and pregnant teens who qualify for CalWORKs, to help assist and encourage high school graduation or the equivalent. Cal-Learn clients who are under age 19, have not graduated from high school, are not in foster care, and live in the same household as their child are required to participate in Cal-Learn. Services offered to Cal-Learn participants are: intensive case management, supportive services including but not limited to, childcare, transportation, and education expenses, and bonus/sanctions to encourage satisfactory education results. LFRC will continue to provide services aiming to meet the overall goal that teen parents will graduate from high school or an equivalent with skills and knowledge to move toward self-sufficiency, including demonstrating nurturing parenting, a healthy lifestyle, and family stability. In fiscal year 2019-2020, the California Department of Social Services increased Cal-Learn program funding in order to increase services to match those provided in the Adolescent Life Family Program (AFLP). That funding increase remains for fiscal year 2020-2021. Adolescent pregnancy numbers have dropped nationwide over recent years. In fiscal year 2019-2020, LFRC provided Cal-Learn services to a total of 15 clients.
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