Memorandum
Date: June 7, 2022
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Crystal Markytan, Director, Social Services
Subject: Approve Contract between the County of Lake and Lake Family Resource Center for Cal-Learn Services in the amount of $50,000 per Fiscal Year from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024, and authorize the Chair to sign.
Executive Summary:
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.
DSS issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) which closed in January of 2022. Lake Family Resource Center was the only entity to submit a bid, and therefore they were selected to operate the Cal-Learn program. 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.
DSS intended to continue services month to month while preparing the RFP, however, we were notified mid-year that payments can only be issued month to month for the first quarter after a contract expires. This delay combined with our Contractor's critically low administrative staff numbers are the reasons this Contract is coming to your Board late.
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