Everybody back to the Board of Supervisors budget hearings. This is just the continuance of our budget hearings, so we're going to get Straight into it. We're going to lead off with the introduction of the item from Ms. Mary Riggs if you wouldn't mind Introducing the health and human services budget item. I'd be happy to do that. Good morning chair friend members of the board Christina Mallory the county budget manager. I'm going to give you a brief overview of the health and services health and human services budget category So just to let you know these departments agencies and budgets make up the health and human services budget category child support Core investments human services health services and homeless services The health and human services category expenditures are approximately $313 million for the upcoming fiscal year This represents about 40% of the total county budgeted expenditures for fiscal year 2018-19 and this represents a 7.6% increase over the prior year And this is primarily increased costs to maintain current operations and the development or expansion of some programs including drug Medi-Cal IHSS whole person care And increased support for homeless services This chart shows the share of expenditures by department and agency and you can see health services is approximately 54% And human services is 42% and that makes up the majority of the funding the largest expenditure in This category is salaries and benefits which comprises about 147 million of the total and supports over 1,153 positions It's an increase of about 18 positions from the previous year which was primarily added mid-year Due to the whole person care program Additional expenditures include services and supplies of 93 million other charges of 80 million and other Financing and fixed assets which make up the remainder of the expenditures at about eight and a half million the Revenues include about 285 million dollars Which represents about 91% of the financing with the general fund and other funds making up the difference are about 9% To meet the expenditure needs these revenues represent 49% of the total budgeted revenues and are comprised of about 205 million dollars in our governmental revenues from state and federal sources 47 almost 48 million in charges for services Almost 24 million and other financing and 5 million the use of money and taxes and 2.9 million in licenses and permits Additional financing includes 27 and a half million dollars in general fund contribution and Less than a million dollars in other funds This chart shows the share of financing by department and agency and note that core investments are not represented as they are totally supported by the general fund and here you can see the general fund contribution by department It's approximately 27 million dollars represents about 19 percent of the total general fund net cost and Further details will be provided in each of the department budget proposals So we like to in a high note and give you some highlights and successes As noted yesterday, there are still some critical unmet needs in the health and human services arena Including services for the homeless population including the navigation center year-round emergency shelter behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment and Permanent supportive housing needs However, we'd like to leave you with just a few of the accomplishments in health and human services this year Serving our most vulnerable population emergency shelter capacity increased by 30 percent and New on-site health care and benefits enrollment services were offered at these shelters a Dressed over 22,000 communicable disease incidences and provided over 400 home visits through the nurse family partnership and Supported veterans through increased outreach and reduction in wait times for benefits appointments The majority of the health and human services budgets will provide more information on the regular agenda Child support is listed on the consent agenda as a status quo budget proposal in Jamie Murray The department head is here today if you have any questions and that includes my presentation Thank you for that introduction. Are there any brief questions before we move on to the consent agenda Okay, see none just we have one item on the consent agenda Which is to approve the 2018-19 proposed budget for the Department of Child Support Services, are there any questions or comments on this item? Is there anybody from the community that'd like to address us on the Department of Child Support Services before we go into our regular agenda? Okay, see none will bring back to the board for action. I would Move to adopt the consent agenda and thank child support services for the good work that they do We have a motion from Supervisor Leopold and a second from Supervisor Coonerty all those in favor I Opposed it passes unanimously. We will now move on to the first item of our regular agenda Which is to consider the 2018-19 proposed budget for homeless services coordination? Including any supplemental budget materials is provided in the referenced budget documents. We have the FY 17 18 goals and accomplishments the homeless services coordination FY 18 19 proposed budget and the 2018-19 supplemental pages Good morning and welcome morning Good morning chair friend and members of the board. I'm rainy Marr the homeless services coordinator and Today I'm bringing before you the proposed budget for homeless services coordination With me this morning is assistant CAO Alyssa Benson who has recently joined our team and is providing a tremendous amount of support around this issue Before I begin my presentation I would like to extend my immense appreciation to our many nonprofit providers the faith community and our local Jurisdictions for their excellent work Partnership and support in our collective efforts towards addressing homelessness in our community. I Would also like to extend a special. Thank you to our county administrative office Human services department health services agency Planning department probation and sheriff's office for their support and partnership as we have been working towards recalibrating our internal efforts Their talented leadership and staff have provided invaluable guidance at the policy level and their staff is providing services with both professionalism and Compassion This morning. I'm going to provide you with an overview of the various elements of coordination Our office is leading 2017-18 goals and accomplishments the proposed budget 2018-19 goals and unmet needs My role has been very systems level engaging with all of the necessary people and Organizations that are working on this issue to collaborate on implementing system improvements and Expansion to bring new resources to bear and to drive systems change all with the ultimate goal of reducing homelessness and Assisting our unsheltered residents into permanent housing the 2017 point-in-time count tells us that we have 2249 homeless people in our community at this time 80% of those or 1800 are unsheltered of Those 36% are living on the street 30% are in a vehicle and the rest are in abandoned buildings or encampments Most profoundly underserved is our youth population 98% of them are unsheltered On the youth advisory board. I've met a number of young people One of them is a full-time student at Cabrillo and and working full-time at the same time And he can't afford housing so he lives either in a tent behind the college or sometimes sleeps in his car Another one wanders the street at night trying to stay awake because he doesn't have a safe place to sleep Within our county family I get calls from folks in various departments They're calling to ask how can they help the mother that they know who's sleeping in a car with her children or the senior Citizen who is about to lose their housing and is on the brink of homelessness The need for emergency shelter and affordable housing in our community cannot be overstated Homeless services coordination staff consists of one full-time homeless services coordinator. That would be me Additionally since January Alisa has been dedicating about 50% of her time to this issue Our county does not have a formal office of homeless services and historically We've had a very decentralized way of addressing this issue There's been no collective county voice on the issue nor an internal forum to strategize execute and operationalize This has been our first year to do things differently Over the past year internal efforts have focused on recalibrating in order to organize and leverage our existing resources for a more collective impact Bringing together the key department heads and their top staff to create in essence a virtual office of homeless services The result of that effort is a new county homeless coordinating committee These 18 key county leaders are now working together tackling tough policy issues Planning for the future and figuring out how to recalibrate our efforts to maximize our effectiveness Our goals include advising your board on policy issues planning and evaluation Coordinating operations across departments and giving a new focus to equity and access to services across the county Three working groups have been formed and are actively engaged with implementing smart path coordinated entry within the county departments developing a robust communications plan to articulate the county's response to homelessness and Pivoting towards outcomes focused contracting for homeless services. I Would like to thank the directors and their staff for their leadership Guidance and support and ask that those members of the committee that are here today Please all stand and be recognized at this time earlier I talked about engaging with all the necessary people and organizations to implement service improvements and expansion This happened. We are missing one slide missing one slide. She will just speak to it This happened yesterday when we were doing a run-through. I don't know why To bring new resources to bear and to drive systems change What you're missing is a visual representation showing various spheres in which our work is going on that includes South County Youth homelessness Leading the homeless coordinating committee internally working closely with various homeless services providers Working in South County and so forth Over the past year Extensive collaboration has taken place with a wide range of these partners on implementing coordinated entry establishing shelter programs integrating mainstream resources with shelters expanding services and funding for South County and Providing leadership and support related to the youth homelessness demonstration project and the youth advisory board Our non-profit partners and the faith community are the boots on the ground They're the ones that are actually changing lives every day and the work that we do is in service to theirs And if there are members of these initiatives or others engaged in homeless services here in the audience today Would you please stand and be recognized? They're doing important work in the 2017 18 proposed budget. We set these goals for ourselves consistent with the all-in plan 2017 18 saw introduction of new programs services and funding for South County Approval of projects for the 2.2 million dollar HUD grant and the launch of smart path coordinated entry Significant progress has been made and good work continues with both supporting the HAP and improving our governance structure Over three million dollars in new funding was secured through a variety of grants The budget cover letter provides an overview of these goals and accomplishments and the supplemental budget provides an in-depth discussion of each As the year progressed new goals emerged and so I would like to take a moment to highlight some additional key accomplishments We worked on system-wide improvements that included developing new models of delivering services and expanding capacity We integrated county services into existing shelter programs Our health services agency introduced the new hopes model which you'll hear more about in their budget presentation in Supportive shared systems the supplemental budget includes a recommendation to transition the smart path Coordinated entry lead agency from the homeless services Center who launched it to our human services department Where it will be stabilized and supported for ongoing operations Planning for this transition has been a vital part of ensuring the stability and sustainability of smart path In addition to internally recalibrating how we are coordinating and delivering services here at the county We also launched an internal review of how we are organized around homeless services functions and operations We successfully secured numerous grants for homeless services and also secured critical one-year funding for ongoing operations and sustainability of smart path the proposed budget provides for one full-time staff position The county's share of cost for the emergency winter shelter program and the new homeward bound program that will launch this summer While this budget includes Staffing costs for my time It does not reflect the staffing cost of our assistant CAO Elisa Benson nor of the members of our Homeless coordinating committee It also does not reflect the county's substantial investment in homeless services Which includes shelter housing and a wide range of supportive services The county's significant investment in homeless services funding can be broadly categorized in three areas Administration in addition to what I've already described happening out of our office Includes planning department staff providing oversight for HUD continuum of care operations Shelter and housing includes emergency shelter sober living environments Transitional housing and permanent supportive housing Supportive and stabilizing services includes a wide range of things including homelessness prevention housing navigation case management rapid rehousing employment training and other key supports What's not included here are substantial expenditures on mental health and substance use services or Entitlement benefits such as general assistance Cal works and Cal fresh Those are very difficult to estimate as to which portion of those benefits are being provided to homeless people 2018-19 goals are grouped in three categories, but all of them map to the all-in plan We will continue to build off of the planning work that has already been underway and completed to date We will open new navigation centers in north and south county and develop project plans for emergency bridge housing We know we need to continue to expand services for this population Including substance use treatment mental health services, and we plan to test new models to reach those who are hardest to serve As we transition smart path lead agency to the county We must support and sustain it and we will implement smart path intake and assessment processes in all county departments and divisions Where substantial numbers of homeless people are being served We will analyze the effectiveness of our current investments and evaluate if we have the right mix of programs and services We will complete our internal analysis of organizational effectiveness And we will develop aligned outcomes across housing and homeless services contracts and continue to improve data quality and Consistency across programs. We will also continue to seek new sources of funds Despite progress, we have significant needs. There are few sustainable sources of funding for homelessness an Estimated 1.5 million in emergency sheltering costs for fiscal 18-19 will only address about 10 percent of our total shelter need We will still have substantial unmet needs for year-round shelter throughout the county Including population specific services for seniors women and youth that are as yet unaddressed We still need a substantial supply of supportive housing to move homeless people into Shelter is only an interim measure On a one-time only basis we anticipate emergency block grants from the state This will solve some of our short-term funding needs to address homelessness But it doesn't resolve the issue or the need for long-term sustainable funding With a crisis level of homelessness in our community state and nation we have a lot of work to do And we are challenged every day to reevaluate what we are willing and able to do to address it The partnerships we have forged the systems changes that we are making And the innovations we are testing Demonstrate our community's commitment to solving this complex problem I would like to thank your board for your commitment to this issue and your support for the work of this office With that I would ask that your board adopt the proposed homeless services coordination budget as recommended Including the associated items in the supplemental budget for the human services department and planning department to Transition the lead agency for smart path from homeless services to the county and this concludes my remarks And I would be happy to take your questions. Thank you miss Mar. Are there any questions from supervisors supervisor Leopold Thank you chair. Thank you for the presentation and thank you for the ongoing work Just had a couple questions with the smart path assessment the the Supplemental showed that there were about 119 assessments completed But we know we have lots of folks accessing services. What's the expectation of how? when we will have The the over 2,000 people who are homeless At part of this system We don't have a set date by which we think we can have everyone assessed But as of yesterday we had 160 trained assessors in the community and we're still training more people and You know our goal is to have what's called a by-name list so that for you know We we have a sort of takedown list if you will of all the people that we can identify who are homeless We're able to prioritize them for the you know services that we do have available And we're working very aggressively kind of like when we rolled out You know the new affordable care act and we did a very intensive enrollment We're attempting right now to do very intensive assessment. So As soon as we can but you know, we're working on building it out Yeah, well, it seems very important to To get people into the the system so they can access all those services the the other question I had was The winter shelter and the capacity at 87 percent, you know, given that we know that we have so many people unsheltered Are is there discussion about strategies in order to increase the the number of people who use this the Shelter services when we have them available Yeah, I mean, I think this year we're looking at a Change of the model from a winter shelter model to a year-round model and our focus is on a low barrier system You know, we we want to be able to accommodate, you know couples people with dogs and you know, those are some of the reasons why people don't go You know having population specific shelters could also help in the long run because for example many women Especially women who've suffered trauma and abuse won't go to a shelter youth won't go to a shelter. That's designed for adults So, you know, we have some some very specific needs and until we can address those I think we'll still see some underutilization, you know, the only times we see full utilization of the winter shelter is on the coldest Wettest nights Thank you Supervisor McPherson Thank you, chair. I Just want to first of all thank those who in the audience that stood up and the coordinated effort I've never seen anything like this and this is our most pressing and complex problem We have in this county probably overall along with housing in general and I think the same holds true for the state of California This new problem relatively it seems like it just exploded five years ago or maybe a little more But it's throughout the state of California and everywhere. I Just want to thank the in particular the the faith community and the nonprofits who have come to the table We're very well aware of that this very very pressing problem But you're right there with us and we can't do this without you So I just want to say how much I appreciate what you're doing for us I don't think there's an example of a more Coordinated effort trying to solve a huge problem that we've tried to address in Santa Cruz County Since I've been here for five plus years now I Just with the state It has also been it's evident from the state budget that was just passed to be signed by the governor They have really put a lot of Effort a lot of attention to the homeless problem in the state of California. What in general how much in general does that? mean for us and I think with the program that we've outlined It seems like we're in good good position to get any kind of a matching grant that might be available I don't know if there's something out there that you say we're in good position to get more funding for some of these programs Is in general? I know that budget just passed. So Do you have any kind of a calculation or is there more out there that you're hopeful that we may be getting? Aside from what's being presented here There's there's no specific other grant that we're seeking at this time Except for the no place like home grant which is going to be going on the ballot in November And I don't think that we would be able to use this as a source of match for that But having a source of match is extremely important It is often the case that you know there are grants out there that require match and if we have a ready source of that that'll make it much easier and You know, we're always looking for every possible source of grant funding that we can get and we will continue to do that And aside from thanking the the faith community and the nonprofits who have helped us so much I wanted to thank The city particular in the city of Santa Cruz who we've worked with in this year-round shelter is absolutely necessary It's really troubling to see how many children are our minors or are facing homelessness as they are but I want to thank you and spent me some for getting a Focus on what we need to do in the direction we need to go This is going to be a long process But we're well on track and I really appreciate what you have done with Cooperation from others in our community. Thank you Thank you. Surveys McPherson supervisor Coonerty. Thank you, and it's amazing to see both the Coordination within the county and then externally it's been missing for a long time And I think we're starting to see real benefits from that and I appreciate that when we look at the staffing of one That that while everyone else is putting in a lot of time and effort Trying to coordinate and all these programs is great in terms of the goals I mean a supervisor Leopold just asked about the coordinated entry system when we did the ACA rollout We knew exactly how many uninsured there were there were annual goals. We had to meet those goals Systems were changed. Can we do the same thing? I mean I didn't what a lot of these goals are missing is the number that it's going to be provided at the end of of When we come back here next year, how many coordinated entry how many people will be through the coordinated entry system? How many people will be left when what's them? What's the mandate? And so it's What can we do to get better numbers around some of these goals? We can do a better job of getting the numbers We can you know It's one of the things that we really want to do this next year is focus on data and evaluation and setting those targets I don't believe there are any set metrics yet, but that's a very good suggestion that we should do that There are reports being developed right now that will allow us to pull the information We want out of the new coordinated entry system there being worked on as we speak so Being able to get those metrics of how many people are being assessed What's their outcome and so for that's data that we don't have now or haven't been able to get up until now so we will we will be doing that and I think having very measurable goals and Having data that we can measure that from is is a key part of what we want to do going forward I like to add to that a little bit. I think one of the key benefits of the transition The lead agency role to the human services department is their strong Capacity in using data and creating systems as we were looking at options recognizing we need that Organizational backbone to really support this kind of program that definitely fed into the recommendation That's before you today. Thank you, and I yeah, I trust HSD. I've seen their dashboards. They're great and I think And just just for all the departments, but specifically for on this is you know as we put numbers these goals My expectation is not that you're gonna hit every number every time And I don't I don't and I actually my colleagues don't plan on, you know, waiting till next year and then berating you for not I expect that some of the goals will not be met because Federal funding starts to shift or there's a new new need or we just set a really ambitious goal and couldn't quite get there But I think having those numbers would be helpful because then we know What's working and what's not and that's the second part which is I think the overall goal still has to be to reduce the number of homeless in our community And have that be the goal and that be tracked and then understanding as Supervisor McPherson says that this is not Just our This is not a phenomenon that's happening locally. It's happening statewide It's happening nationally is even if we have comparable counties Even if our rise is slower than their rise, then we know we're on the right track But I think Having that goal and then having some comparable counties so we can see well, what are they doing that may work or what are we doing? That's that's working better than them I think that has to be out that has to be the goal that then drives all the other goals going forward So I'd be interested in that Going forward. Thank you Supervisor Caput Thank you for your report This is a very Grave problem that we're facing and it's not just us. That's everywhere And it does say Homeless services coordination This could come under the core or it cannot come under this subject right now but in South County, we have the Salvation Army working right now and I'd like to ask is there any coordination between The Salvation Army and Teen Challenge that is trying to open up a women's shelter In that area. I don't know if we should wait or are you able to answer that? I am not aware of any coordination efforts between Salvation Army and Teen Challenge But captain Harold from the Salvation Army is here and me I want to thank you Salvation Army for everything you're doing right now our pleasure So the Salvation Army and Teen Challenge began working together four or five years ago with providing emergency shelters And recently we we traded and shared some buildings and things like that and those things have transitioned now Into some of the same buildings that they were recently using we have We have redesignated into the South County winter shelter in the South County Day Center and things like that So those services are still being provided even to men women and children that said the Teen Challenge has Has left those buildings and they have been working on the Brennan Street building where that that they plan on a Larger women's shelter, but the issues there are complex and they've been working on on remodeling that building for a couple of years now And so I don't think that the remodel has gone quite as planned That said our our plans to do the winter shelter and the day center and ultimately the South County Navigation Center are all on track and And the only reason that we were able to make those transitions is because we realized Teen Challenge also runs a women's shelter up in freedom And they run their regular shelter down in Pajaro now while the while the shelter in Pajaro is not technically in Santa Cruz County It does serve many Santa Cruz County people because they just crossed the river that said the the coordination between the two agencies now We do daily referrals back and forth Help each other with resources things like that. It's just not not as strong and sharing buildings as it was a year ago Or two years ago Can I just ask one other question? We've gone through a recession and that kind of started it seems the homeless population spike But now we've recovered for a couple of years Have you in that period of recovery? Is there still an increased surge in the number of people you're serving? Yes I think I personally I believe that's more because of our area that we live in then Then economic conditions or anything like that Obviously with a growing economy and things like that people are attracted to our area and once those people Arrived and they did not realize that housing costs are what they are here or or joblessness or whatever so they arrive without any money to go home to whatever state they came from and and then of course that tends to lead into addiction issues and and Maybe mental health issues and things like that. So yes, the the need is increasing But I believe that is because the population is increasing as well Not just the general population by the population of those that are that are moving to our area and bringing many of their issues with them I think I think that's a sign of being unfortunate that we're probably the northernmost county in California where you can Some can get along with a few blankets comparatively to hum-hum bolt or Mendocino Correct. Yeah, yes, we've received many in our winter both winter shelters that we operated last year We received many people that have transitioned from Minnesota and Washington and many much colder states And and one of the reasons one of the reasons that they come is is just that is worst-case scenario They have no blanket no sleeping bag and you have to sleep outside here You don't necessarily die from exposure when that happens because of the you know the ambient temperature So you're right They are they are attracted here for just that reason is the same as San Diego and LA and everyone else has a huge And growing homeless issues for the same exact reason. It's a it's a climate issue Thank you. Thank you We'll now open it up to the community that anybody like to address us specifically on the proposed budget for the homeless Services coordination item. Please feel free to step forward Morning, this is victorious Alexander civil society activists before I put pivot into my public comment I want to be able to thank district for For sending back great cap it he's a great man And I want to be able to say congratulations on your win and coming on back I was able to sit down and hear your presentation. I want to be able to tell the staff Thank you for your diligent and illuminating report I was just concerned because I deal with a lot of the emissary population. I was in the scott's valley library yesterday There's a lot of homeless people out there. I would say is that we need to appropriate funds for outreach There's a lot of people in the library that you can just smell them. They smell really bad, but Reaching them letting them know about the pathway. I did see your brochure in the library there But actually having outreach where they'll go in there and talk to the people, right? And a lot of the librarians the the managers and the staff will know which people are struggling reaching out to them also one thing I notice also. There's a lot of people living in their RVs Having the vehicle codenforcer or whatever they call it. I don't I don't know the exact exact political agency When they're out there doing their work designating RVs Or people living in their cars And letting them know about the services that are available that outreach appropriating some money to them because there's a lot of men That are very prideful. They don't want the nanny state taking care of them You know, they rather deal with it themselves You know in the in the woods and in their RVs and stuff like that But reaching out to the men as well because their humanity is important too and I see a lot of men that are very prideful Don't want to look for the handout But to be degraded is to be dependent and they don't want to be dependent on the nanny state So I would say is we need appropriate outreach money and reach out to the people that are that are wallowing in the at the library And in their RVs in their cars So it's something to consider. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Alexander Anybody else like to address us on the homeless services coordination budget item? Good morning. Welcome. Good morning. Good morning board of supervisors. I'm Angie Moreno, I'm the South County Collaborative Collaborative coordinator from from the community action board First of all, I want to thank you all I want to thank rainy for your great support and leadership for services for homeless and a risk South County families So I just want to start with saying a little bit of a collaborative So our collaborators started after the Pajaro Valley Unified School District PV USD Identify an average of 3,000 students living under the McKinney event to homeless definition a Collaborate consists of the community action board as the lead agency The Pajaro Valley shelter services Families and transition California rural legal assistance and the Pajaro Unified School District also knows of the PV USD So in this first year of core funding our goal was to serve 44 families. We served 90 families Which of which are 190 students We have conducted vulnerability assessments and work closely with smart path Provided housing navigation to 70% of the families referred provided 10 families with rental assistance 79 families received legal and advocacy consultations are remarkably education outcomes of 38% of the students have improved on educational performance, meaning they're missed schools less 20% have improved their grades and 80% have improved in less or non-disciplinary actions and Wonderfully, we were able to attract and leverage the case Kaiser Foundation grant to support our work with families for the 2018 and then I so want to close it by saying that as I'm working with this I also found out that my family was one was homeless and we were part of the power however power valley shelter services So I'm really proud of being the coordinator of this grant and I want to thank you all for your support Thank you. Thank you for your work So everybody else I'd like to address this on this item Okay, so you know we'll bring it back to the board for action on this item. Oh I'll move the recommended action with additional direction to set as a goal the reduction of the overall number of homelessness benchmarked against similarity similar California counties And return in the second meeting in August I think at August 28th with Metrics on the on the appropriate goals For board consideration Motion from Supervisor Coonerty a second from Supervisor McPherson any additional discussion all those in favor I Opposed it passes unanimously. Thank you both for your work We'll move on to item 3 which is to consider approval of the 2018-19 proposed budget for core investments including any supplemental budget Materials as provided in the reference budget documents. We have the core investments 2018-19 proposed budget the revised supplemental The investments supplemental for 2018-19 and the line item detail for 2018-19 Good morning Ms. Timberlake. Good morning chair friend members of the board I'm illan Timberlake the director of the human services department and this morning Emily Bali our deputy director will be presenting with Sheriff Clinton our director of planning and evaluation our proposed Supplemental budget report on core investments. So with that I will turn it over Emily, thank you. Good morning chair friend members of the board As you know core investments is the new funding model that supports local nonprofit and public agencies providing safety net services The model identifies collective results and promotes the use of evidence-based practices and measuring outcomes Fiscal year 18-19 will be the second year of the three-year core investment contracts as Directed by the board HSD will be turning in the fall to provide a report back on the progress of the core investments collective impact model The total budget request for core including the hundred and fifty thousand dollar set-aside funds and Supplemental requests is slightly over is over four point three million dollars Next I will review the recommendations for the core set-aside funds on March 13th of this year the board approved the release of a solicitation for letters of interest for fiscal year 18-19 core investment set-aside funds in the total amount of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars The solicitation for these funds was broadly distributed and outlined a brief and simple application process as requested by local nonprofits and directed by the board HSD received 39 applications representing 43 programs Requesting a total of seven hundred and eighty one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight dollars More than five times the hundred and fifty thousand dollars allocated The award recommendations represent a distribution of funds across service type target population and geographic area The allocation of the recommended awards by service type is shown on this slide Over 50% of the recommended funding will go to services supporting seniors and the disabled as well as children and youth Given the vast need outlined in the applications the Recommendations for funding awards were developed with the knowledge that all needs presented could not be sufficiently met by this fund Staff recommends awarding funding for 16 agencies as shown on this slide in the amounts ranging from two thousand to twenty three thousand dollars If approved by the board the board staff will negotiate purchase orders or order agreements with the recommended awardees At this time I would like to thank all of the agencies for the work They do for our community and I would also like to thank HSD staff as well as staff from health services agency Probation and parks for their assistance with this process At this time I asked that the board approve the recommended fiscal year 18 19 core investments budget and supplemental items This concludes my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions at this time Are there any questions from board members before we open it up to the community? Supervisor Caput Thank you very much. I I guess you could explain We do have an item here for twenty three thousand for the immigration services correct and Is there any other money they can get from human services We are we have in the past and continue to work closely with the immigration project And based on and actually I'll be addressing this a little bit later in my presentation Based on some data that we're seeing within our department with the decrease in in Applications and enrollments and some of our benefit services programs we are going to be working closely and Providing some additional resources to the community action board in an attempt to try and increase The number of immigrants who are accessing benefits because we've seen Alarming declines in that so we will be partnering with them, but that's separate from the set aside That's basically our department moving forward to try and ensure that we don't see any Any regression in our Cal fresh participation in Medi-Cal enrollments The only thing I'm worried about is they're getting a little bit less than they got last year, right? But they're under more pressure right now probably than any time in the last few years so Verbally They're gonna are they gonna get more money? We are we are in discussions with the community action board around ways that our our department can partner with them To do outreach to immigrant populations so that we ensure that we don't see any Decreases or at least we try to mitigate the impact of some of the due cases we've seen in Individuals with varying immigrant statuses applying to our benefit programs So we are already in discussion That that will be Increased help from the human services department right separate from separate from the core investment right set aside Okay, but how does that translate into the money that they might need to operate their ongoing Service in Watsonville well that'll be part of I mean Setting aside the set-aside request the discussions that we have with the community action board on the desired outcomes that our department has to try to increase The enrollments on our benefit programs that will be a discussion that will result in probably a purchase order where we're able to Actually, we did this several years ago when the raids and not I think it was last spring or the spring before We've already had this relationship with the community action board before so we will be sort of reengaging and we're in that particular set of scope of work in order to ensure that we increase enrollments Okay, so we haven't I mean we're still in the process of discussion. So we aren't we don't have any number to report to you But we will be working with them in fiscal year 1819 To provide additional resource. I know you have the same concern I do and a lot of people do and especially what's happening right now with separation of families So I don't want to see anything that's going to actually reduce the service that we're offering in South County and all Throughout the whole county when it comes to immigration services When pressure like this comes from the outside that's where a lot of Undocumented immigrants will they somebody An uncle and aunt or a friend will say go and talk to this lawyer over here pretty soon They're in two three four thousand dollars and they never had a chance in the beginning The great thing about the immigration service in Watsonville is the county overlooks it They get money and the cab is overlooking it When somebody goes in there The only thing that's ever asked of them while they're working through paperwork and anything is a donation if they feel like giving it I mean so Sometimes the answer is no, but they're not out for five thousand dollars And they're also talking to a lawyer That is not going to turn them in for being undocumented So that's what I'm getting at is here. I want to have some insurance. I think I believe last year they got 30,000 and then What I see is 23,000 Actually in written in writing on the page So what I what I would recommend is that we give the 30,000 the same as last year I think they requested 33, but I would like to see them Get 30,000 the same as last year because of the increased pressure going on with separation of children and families Going on at the border right now Supervisor Leopold. Thank you chair First of all, thank you for the work on the core investment strategy This was a huge undertaking And now in year two of this. I appreciate all the work that's going in To thinking about how we measure that collective impact. I'm looking forward to those Continued discussions about that. I think that the department is approaching in the right way by including our community partners in that discussion to help Ensure that we have metrics that really make a difference that we could see how this 4.4 million dollars is is doing. I I just had one or two questions First of all as I look at the set-aside Recommendations you would be hard-pressed to look at this and say these folks don't need money They're all incredibly worthwhile. They could probably all use additional resources And they're they cover a wide range of issues. So you did not you did not focus on one But you met a lot of needs in the community and the families in transition Grant recommendation. How does this fit into the South County Collaborative that we've funded also as part of it? It is to support services being provided through families and transition for the South County Collaborative case management and Assistance for Families with housing subsidies or the other services that fit provides through that collaborative great I'm not asking the question because I think it's it shouldn't be given I'm just were they not part of their South County Collaborative or is this an additional money on top of What was in the South County? This would be additional funding to what was okay provided The the other question I had is in addition to these set-asides. It seems like there's also this supplemental one-time funding For a handful of organizations and so group like the community action board is getting $23,000 In the set-aside, but then another $10,000 As part of the supplemental one-time right so the cab will be getting the $23,000 is for the thriving immigrants program the social innovation fund dollars that are going towards cab are for another existing Core contract That's different. There are different services being provided by cab But it is the around $33,000 that we're providing the cab for a variety of services because the thriving immigrant initiative is is also Multifaceted it's not just the immigration project is the other pieces of it as well Well, I just want to thank you for the for the work This isn't easy. I'm glad that we're not Stepping down. I know some one of our other partners is is is looking at possibly reducing their core investment Funding but with this set-aside the supplemental Innovation fund. I'm glad that we're investing and reinvesting in the in these Programs that are making a difference in the community. So thank you for your work Supervisor Coonerty. Yeah First of all, thank you and I'm confident that you're gonna be able to work out a way to support the immigrant families in our community who are like immigrant families across country under Amazing stress. And so having this kind of project Is a is vital and thank you to all the partners in the room who've really spearheaded this and then I think I think we're gonna figure out a way to make it go and I'm also happy Yeah, unlike adjacent jurisdictions who are cutting back on the community programs. We've been able to continue our investment That we increased last year In order to in order to support the needs I guess my my question is as we head into the we're at the midway point and as we head into a new The future of core funding What if you don't mind briefly what lessons were have been learned and and what are you looking forward to? for the next as we head into this Analytical phase and then the next round. Oh boy What lessons? I Like to say when you know folks talk about the Efforts that we've been able to put forth with core that we are so much in the infancy stage of our Understanding and our partnerships on collective impact. So I think you may recall that we submitted to your board and evaluation It was an incredibly and important evaluation for us as a department I think for us as a community with our with our nonprofit partners to look at where did we where do we do pretty well in our efforts to Transition a long-standing, you know, wonderful program of community programs into something that looks a little different So I think we saw some things that we did well, but we also within that report There are a lot of lessons learned that we fully intend to in the next cycle Integrate into all aspects of what we do before we put out an RFP what we do with that RFP and and afterwards so We welcome that and I feel like we will see improvements as we move forward What I'm really excited about is the community dialogue that's happening and has been happening, you know Since the spring on sort of the broader question of collective impact in this community And what do we need to do to double down on the indicators to revisit some of the initial assumptions around our strategic planning? To look at the type of and hear from the nonprofits and and in all of our partners What are some of the technical assistance pieces that notwithstanding the absence of makes it very difficult to? Move the needle and some of the ways that we're expecting and then hold ourselves accountable as Public agency partners and we we are very committed to doing that some of the discussions We've been having in the homeless coordinating committee are around Ensuring that we bring the same principles of collective impact and and measurement and evidence-based practice Into our coordinated efforts as a homeless coordinating committee. So I think I'm very excited I'm very excited about the steering committee and the advisory committee and we had our first Community event. I guess it was back in May And there believe it or not there were tickets for this event a little worried about tickets But they sold out and and it was an incredible event. There were over a hundred and hundred twenty people attending So we'll be returning to your board I believe in October with a report back on the broader sort of status of where we are with that community dialogue and You can bet that we will be incorporating those lessons learned from our evaluation report into our next cycle, right? I mean, I think one of the things it's sort of because it's just now the standard practice But one of the things that we should all be remembering is it freed by having the three-year cycle Freed up all the non-profit partners to stop filling out paperwork and do the services that they That are so desperately needed and it freed us up To do the analysis and and outreach in order to figure out how to make these investments in a start smart and strategic way And so we shouldn't forget what our reality was only a couple years ago for everyone in the room And hopefully the benefit that we've created Yeah, just one I'd like to make one point well first of all Thank you for the implementation of core it was a long time and coming to the county I think we're seeing the benefits of it and we will in the future as well But one thing I wanted to point out is the approval a general fund expenditure Contribution to core investment contract with community bridges for the provision of meals on wheels program services I know that members of this board and throughout the community Go out and give the meals to these folks. I'll tell you this makes not their day It makes their week in our month. It is really so essential. So I'm glad we have that provision in here, too It's a little bit separate, but it's absolutely necessary and Hundreds thousands of people Not hundreds of thousands, but hundreds maybe thousands of of our county residents depend on this and it's a big deal for them Just a follow-up question to that. I appreciate my colleagues remarks and we strongly support The meals on wheels program that there's there seems to be a slight discrepancy in the document where it says that in The supplemental budget request that says 84,000 by the narrative it says 85,000. What's the number? It's 85,000 It's been corrected So We would like to get it open. Is it okay if we open it up to the community comment here So I'd like to open up to a community comment on the core investment budget item, which is item 3 Anybody like to address this on the side and please feel free to step forward now Thank you for waiting Morning, welcome Hi chairman friend and the board of supervisors. Thank you for letting me speak I'm Deanna Zachary with the diversity center. We support LGBTQ folks in Santa Cruz County I'm thrilled that you have the set-aside funding because it's made a world of difference for us We support Latinx youth in Watsonville LGBT youth Ages 12 to 18 and what we heard a few months ago from these youth You know these youth as you know have a lot of challenges They have higher depression higher anxiety higher levels of assault and being bullied higher levels of homelessness It's so important that we've been talking about homelessness because when you look at our homeless data You see that there's a Increasing number of homeless youth and their LGBT so for us we really try to support the kids What we find is if these kids get support they have less anxiety less depression less suicidal ideation They just really thrive but if their families don't provide support Then the diversity center steps in and we have support groups and leadership training and community events that support these kids So these kids came to us their ages 12 to 18 But once they're 18 they have nothing else to support them and they said we need help You know at 18 we don't have enough support. So We decided to focus this connexiones program on the transition age youth Ages 18 to 25 to give them support to give them kind of a chance to thrive to give them a safe place So this set-aside funding was crucial for us because we had no funding and so we applied for this and got funding Proposed funding that we would love for you to support for these LGBTQ youth ages 18 to 25 in Watsonville They're Latinx many of them are Spanish speaking. So it's a community that otherwise wouldn't get support We do have program evaluation data from looking at our youth ages 12 to 18 we did a survey with them last year we talked to 49 kids and We had let's see 40 48 kids felt better about themselves by being in the program 47 felt more comfortable expressing themselves and 45 knew where to go if they felt unsafe and finally 44 of them felt more comfortable coming out as LGBT So really want to thank you for this set-aside funding thing at the department And ask for your support for LGBTQ Latinx kids in Watsonville. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your work Yeah, it's really critical. Thank you. Thank you Good morning. Welcome. Thank you for waiting Thank you for having me and thank you chairman friend and the entire board of supervisors for this moment You allow me time right now to tell a story that will personalize the struggles of LGBTQ youth as my Colleague just described. I'm Stella Moreno, and I'm a member of the board of directors Santa Cruz Diversity Center Santa Cruz, but I'm also Stella Moreno former principal of middle school and associate principal of high school in Watsonville for for decades And by the way a special hello to a supervisor cap it with a cap cap it with whom I've shared the stage at numerous graduations and good to see you and congratulations My story is simple as a but it's important As a school principal in Watsonville and anywhere your charge is the education and well-being of students And to do that well you obviously have to enlist the support and trust of your Youths and children's first teachers their parents We had a student that came to our school in middle school Her name was Liliana changed the name for obvious reasons Liliana was a very good student entering middle school good grades ever felt ever-vescent Vital and confident and I was her principal at Pajaro Middle School and She was in a leadership Club and and well-known on campus and her parents came in to meet with me one day because they were just really really Upset about their child and I'm thinking what could be wrong with this perfect child But for them it was a real real situation where they felt she was a tomboy identifying with boys all her friends were boys and they were really concerned about that so Um Talked to Liliana got her into counseling and talked with the parents more and she just said I feel like a boy That's that's what I like. That's what I feel like So there was more conflict at home things got worse parents We had more meetings and I had the opportunity to become associate principal at Watsonville So I followed that eighth grade class to Watsonville and stayed there Um parent pressure increased they knew I was an out lesbian Administrator they would come to me at high school and talk with me and we had them get involved in counseling with PVPS and whatnot In Watsonville and Liliana got involved in the Gay Straight Alliance at the high school But the parent pressure for this child to identify gender identify with her Her her with females was really really stressing and creating problems. So Can you just very briefly finish? Okay long story short She eventually the pressure got too much she eventually tried to kill so as commutes suicide with aspirin she lived she But but she just became the student the no grades missing class missing school The Diversity Center Connexionist Program is the reason Is part the reason we've created this program and we're asking for your funding for kids like this So at the end of the day, I just want to say that not only are you helping Latinx children? But you're helping families who are going to support those kids. Thank you. Thank you for sharing the story Morning welcome Good morning board of supervisors. Thank you so much for having me My name is Jonathan Salinas. I am the Connexionist Program Coordinator through the Diversity Center as the two previous folks also were So in my position, my duty is to create events programs resources and spaces in which People of the LGBTQ Latinx community in South County can get together. We can talk we can share stories and support each other overall Each time I go to these youth meetings. I I see the importance of programs like this. I I see that these programs are more than just a place for these kids to hang out and just come together after school It's a place where these kids can get together so that they can survive in this world That continues to push them down so that we can continue to give the resources that are denied From them by so many other channels and systems within our society And so for me the importance of this program is to make sure that these kids can live past the age of 18 They can go to 25 35 80 years old Superceding their life expectancy Due to the hate crimes that they have to endure every single day because of the color of their skin or because of their gender Identity or the person that they love This funding not only will support these youth But it will continue to help this program grow as it is one of you in this state I can I can probably count on one hand how many programs there are like this within the state of California And I think that highlights the intense need of the reasons why we need to continue to support queer Latinx youth Thank you so much for putting forward this recommendation of Budget so that we can continue to support these youth and young adults in South County. Thank you so much. Thank you Morning welcome back. Hi there I'm here to thank you for not cutting the community programs line the core budget line It's been a tough couple of weeks for those of us that are advocating for children for obvious reasons on the larger level but also as you Mentioned with our your jurisdictional partners that actually did make decisions to cut our funding And I also want to thank you for thinking of us when it came to the set-aside supplemental funding Your help will help us to continue to provide quality care for a diverse population of children in our county and what we hope to be able to continue to do in order to sustain this work is to Support our teachers who are the low-income workers of our county I just wanted to read a quick line from an article in yesterday sentinel about the start gaps between the haves and have knots in the Bay Area They said the region is the worst in the nation for service employees and security workers according to a new analysis by real estate website rent cafe and Childcare maintenance and food service workers have so little money left after paying living expenses that many are forced into debt Or sacrifice health care and other needs. I hear this from my teachers every day. They're not able to go to the doctor Their kids aren't able to go to summer camp when they're out of school. They're home with a disabled grandma My teachers are the low-income families that we struggle to provide for so your help with the Set-aside funds will help us to Hopefully provide a bit more of a sustainable wage for these people. Thank you very much I'm not sharing your name and I'm sorry Norah Caruso from the Santa Cruz toddler care center. Thank you so much We know you miss Caruso. Thank you. Yeah Good morning, welcome. Good morning. Thank you supervisors and staff I'm Kate hidden camp from the community action board Santa Cruz County immigration project and I want to thank all of you that spoke up this morning and voiced your support of immigrant families as we all know this is a I Think unprecedented time for immigrant families certainly in my lifetime and I think in generations So it's really really vital and I want to thank the county For your ongoing support of of immigrant families that are part of our community Programs like cabs immigration project provide our immigrant neighbors a degree of stability and hope where it's in short supply As you know, and I wanted to clarify about the funding skip is has been receiving $63,000 in core funding this past year and That's projected for the next two years We also got 30,000 in set-aside funds to to support emerging needs like We've been working with a coalition doing child care safety planning for families trying to Prepare for the possibility of someone in their family being detained and as well as Stepping in with crisis support. We've worked with 11 local families that have been impacted by ice detentions and as well as we've been working with the HSD to on this purchase order to increase or Decrease the drop in enrollments in public benefits like CalFresh and MediCal so we have county staff coming in every month to our office to Do outreach with people who are who may be eligible for those benefits We've also been working really closely with second harvest harvest food bank there in our office a weekly actually Doing outreach and one of the things we found really effective is Working with because people who have public benefits are eligible for an immigration form fee waiver for many services We actually encourage them to to apply for CalFresh or MediCal if they don't have it They can save hundreds of dollars on their immigration forms So we really want to thank you for your support and we look forward to continuing our partnership in the future Thank you and thank you for your work. Good morning. Welcome Morning. Good morning members of the board and staff. My name is Isaia Ambrosio I'm the director of the Davenport Resource Service Center and I'm here on behalf on behalf of the North Coast community To thank you for supporting our program through the core grant in the last year. We have worked with about 45 families 12 youth and 12 seniors What we have done with them is mainly through case management monitoring their needs. We started last year Just asking them what what sort of needs they have it's mainly food shelter And I want to share an example We started working with about 20 youth last year and we asked them what what goal do you have for the year? That's one of the Aspects we asked them for this grant and many of them said I want to improve my grades I want to get a driver's license at the end of the year. They wanted to get a job for the summer so fortunately we were able to partner with the county office of education and so now about seven youth are going through the process of Getting all their paperwork All their documents to apply for a job through the county to get a job. So and we are supporting them You know through the process with mock interviews and getting ready for them for most of them except one It's gonna be their first time actually working. So we believe that that's a great opportunity for them to improve their Leadership skills, but they're gonna be our role models and they're gonna be a great example for the community So that's just one example of the impact that we can work that we can have working together So I wanted to thank you today for your support Thank you. Thank you Morning welcome Good morning. Thank you board and staff I am Joanne Gadoy and I'm the part-time executive director at Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes in Watsonville Thank you for continuing the core funding for our program Just to let you know every day we provide more than a hundred and twenty five sometimes up to hundred and fifty hot complete lunches and Then the equivalent of about a thousand meals To about sixty families that come into our pantry program. They leave with boxes of food But that's the equivalent of about a thousand meals So if you times that by two hundred and sixty days that were open a year you can see that we're providing close to three hundred thousand meals both hot in in our lunch program and then in produce and can goods through our pantry program Something new that we've done this year is to recognize the special needs of those people who don't have kitchens and we've created these no kitchen boxes that has high quality protein canned fruits and vegetables beans and Recognizing the fact that many of our People that have no kitchens are seniors or children and they have problems chewing We take that into account so that the foods are safe sanitary Easy to chew easy to prepare So that that's where we're focusing there and I do have to give a shout-out to Supervisor Caput and that he's made a significant personal investment to the to that would Consist of about a 10% match on the $10,000 that we're getting Three core funding so I do have to give a shout-out. I I didn't get permission to recognize you but He puts his money where his mouth is and where and since we're we feeding People we appreciate that Thank you for your comments. Good morning Hi, good morning members of the board. My name is Jorge Reese I'm with central coast Center for independent living and for the last 35 years We have been providing services to people with disabilities in Santa Cruz County and also Monterey County and Seminole County We have for CSOL or consumers or staff or board and volunteers We thank you for reporting on CSOL and recommending us for future funding. Thank you Thank you Good morning. Welcome. Good morning. Thank you. Good morning to everyone here. My name is Celia Gackerman I'm both the executive and clinical director of the parent center And I just want to say that our mission at the parent center is to prevent and treat child abuse improve parenting skills and Help the everyone in the family heal as someone who has been trying to reunify families for over 40 years I just want to say that I'm sure that I'm in particular pain right now with what is going on That your families are being split apart and I appreciate your acknowledgment of that as a community and as a board We are very grateful at the parent center to the county for the $5,000. You are giving us as part of core investments This money will be used for match funding to use Medi-Cal to provide $25,000 worth of professional bilingual counseling services to meet the ongoing needs For therapeutic wraparound treatment for the most at-need children at need children in our community who have diagnosable mental health issues All of our therapists at the parent center in this contract our licensed practitioners use evidence-based practice and rigorous evaluation tools and I look forward to sharing our results with you as they occur I Look forward also to continue serving children with open child welfare cases as well as children in our general community Thank you again for this honor Thank you Morning welcome. Thank you all for waiting My name is Freda oral and I work with meals on wheels with Robbie and Carol behind me And I would just like to say thank you very much for the additional money that you gave our program the majority of our clients are homeless and We asked them one day if they could please jot down their feelings about why they like this program and why they come to this program and We've put that together In pamphlets so that each of you can read them and maybe you could exchange them with yourselves so that you can get a Full idea of why these people come to the program again. We appreciate very much your support for the program That was meals on wheels. Yes. Thank you. Hi. Good morning everybody Carol Childers with meals on wheels First of all, I want to start my first. Thank you. Thank you for the eighty-five thousand dollar Supplemental funds. Thank you. Thank you Also, you know, we did a lot of talk about the homeless population In our Loudon Nelson Center our recent demographic show that 47% of the clients we're serving lunch to Monday through Friday are homeless So our center down there is unique from the other ones, you know all over the county in that It's a safe haven our folks that come there. They know that they're going to get a good hot meal They're safe and they can relax and it's so important to those folks. So thank you I also want to thank you on behalf of the home-delivered folks I know Bruce speaks highly of our adventures when we go out in the boondocks. I have a new boondock for you We are now serving a woman. We pull off highway 17. She waits on the side She lives up a trail in a trailer and It's because of funding from folks the county that we are able to provide services to this really really sweet woman And thank you Bruce for making Penny's birthday special Thank you Thank you for your work Good morning. Welcome. Good morning. My name is Kimberly and I am the YW teens coordinator with the YWCA of Watsonville and First of all, I want to thank everybody for their past support to the YWCA through funding Today, I want to talk about the YW team program in the past. We were funded by the state to address Tied teen pregnancy rates in about five middle schools. Unfortunately. That was eliminated in 2011 From then we only continued in one middle school with a small grant from the Green Mountain coffee from Green Mountain coffee Last year we were able to add one other middle school with a 17,000 grant from the community foundation of Santa Cruz to focus on social and emotional development of middle school girls Next year. We will continue with this school only Commonly known now as girls paving the way With core when core emphasize the need to provide evidence-based curriculum, which we have been doing since 2011 Along with our high score on the application. We were surprised when we received no funding However, we understand that there are many community needs through core To continue to provide services we applied for the emerging needs Mainly for our summer program to cover the cost of providing that safe space to community members for partner meetings for trainings And then including serving our lunches over the summer who we partner with community bridges We do receive the lunches for free However funding is needed to hire people to be able to provide those lunches to be able to provide the activities And to end the cost of supplies We know it's a quality program because even though there are 12 sites in total participating We have been consistently in the top three and in Watsonville. We are the top site serving lunches We serve around averaging 1500 lunches every summer This year we did not receive any funding from the county It is difficult for us to get funding from other sources when our own local government is not providing any financial support Which indicates that perhaps this is no longer in need So I'd like to thank you for your consideration and I hope that today we learned something new about our summer program. Thank you Thank you. Good morning. Thank you all for waiting Hi, good morning Paulina moreno thriving immigrants initiative project director with community action board Dear supervisors and staff. Thank you for your leadership and vision to support programs that are tangibly Improving the lives of immigrants in our county as you heard last night Thriving immigrants collaborative is cabs newest initiative that was brought together as a response to the political landscape and the federal administration's anti-immigrant actions that have definitely impacted our community This is an extension of What cab currently provides as a me for immigration services and we are focused to work with families that are most vulnerable Are undocumented families that have limited pathways to immigration remedies Your support will ensure we can expand our current case management work Which helps families navigate the process of finding legal representation Accessing needed services and exercising their rights Our case manager is currently working with families where at least one member of their family is in detention Fine and that work consist of fine to legal representation To help family understand and navigate the complexity of detention work with the family to gather important documents of the detainee and Assess need and work with the family to provide referrals and obtain services such as rental assistance food Transportation and the like it will also help ensure we are able to continue the important Education and outreach that we conduct to provide the latest information on immigration Now more than ever we need your commitment to ensure we can support families in our county We respectfully request your support in the full amount amount of funding we requested in our set-aside proposal and Would like for you to direct County staff to work with us to create a countywide Immigration strategy that mirrors your three by three plan and homeless strategy that will ensure immigrants in our county feel safe We'll take advantage of resources. They are eligible and protect family unity. Thank you. Thank you Morning Good morning Chairman friend Board of Supervisors and staff my name is Andrea to Leo I'm with the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Cruz County And I just want to say thank you so much for your core funding support which has enabled us to Provide new services at live oak or increase our service live oak and also for your supplemental funding For the Joe and Linda alibarity clubhouse, which we've just added 150 members and we're serving over 75 kids a day Right now Your core funding is providing after-school programs a safe place to come for over 2,500 kids ages 6 to 18 and you know without the funding from the county and city and our other Supporters these kids really would not really have a really safe place to come. That's affordable with support services around academics staying healthy teen programs and Being able to be supported by mentors. So thank you very much Moving forward. I really want to compliment you Ellen because The conversations around collective impact are significant in terms of being able to share resources for thousands of kids and Just being able to open up those dialogues has been incredibly important And I just want to thank you for moving those conversations forward. So, thank you very much. Thank you Thank you for your important work Morning good morning, and thank you very much for allowing me to speak I'm a Lisa VR from families in transition, and I just wanted to thank you for Not only the core support Which is helping us address the housing supply aspect of homelessness and the expansion in Santa Cruz But also the set-aside safety amount, which will help us and continue to provide services to Undocumented documented immigrants in South County. So thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it Laura Jacobs of the MLM preschool center, and I just wanted to say thank you for your support and for the county for the Acknowledgement of the additional funds this year, and that's it. Thank you. Good morning. Welcome back Good morning Craig and Mendeville senior citizens legal services, and I'd like to thank you all for being in suits So I don't feel overdressed up here talking to you I wanted to tell you a little bit about the stuff that we do that doesn't show up in the reports. So Senior legal helps 600 senior clients a year, but we do that through Mainly advocates from UCSC. We have them from the legal studies department psychology sociology and we help but we Train about six to ten of those every year and we also have law students who come through and do summer Internship programs with us and we train them on senior issues and these to me are the leaders of tomorrow These are the people who are going to be supporting senior issues moving forward In the past six years that I've been with them with senior citizens legal services We have 11 new attorneys that have come through our program who are now practicing law Three of which practice law here in Santa Cruz We have seven of our Advocates who are currently in law school and three who are starting law school in the fall of this year So these are the changes that we are making that doesn't show up in the reports But we're also trying to affect the youth and the future through senior legal and the grant money that you've given us Is going to help us in our outreach for that. Thank you. Thank you for your work Morning. Thank you for waiting I'm Marina Racine. I'm one of the youth of tomorrow. I'm a law student at Santa Clara and I'm working with senior citizens legal services I just want to thank you for the support that you give to that organization. It's helped me See the need for more compassionate lawyers and more compassionate legal services in the community And I just want to thank you for the support. Thank you Morning.  So I want to I want to say my deeply respects for those folks And lastly, I just want to point out That we need to do something about the violence in our streets and to create Some kind of street outreach that is willing and wanting to hit the streets People don't do that no more and we've had an increase in violence So maybe in the future you can start looking at how do we reach those? individuals that are out there in the shock callers and and after 26 years doing work in prisons I've learned a few things But we're still not reaching that community and I would really you know advice you To start looking at that because if we don't We're gonna see a bigger increase and we have to do something Street outreach is not tied to law enforcement So we don't lose the credibility that we have in the streets and in the prisons and in the jails So I hope you take that into heart. Thank you for your support. Oh Nani your name and organization for the record Nani Alejandro's Paris Unidos Santa Cruz. Thank you So anybody else would like to address this on the core investments Morning morning morning. These critical services are really Imperative as we go forward and I do appreciate the meals on wheels and also money being allocated for the diversity center They have a lot of wonderful people that do need that I know a lot of people within my community American born Mexican that are struggling with you know coming out And this is a real issue So being money allocated to the diversity center really helps so the deal with people just coming out and also dealing with the suicidal rate Thank you. Thank you anybody else like to address this during the core investments, please Is there anybody else after this speaker? Good morning. Welcome. Morning. My name is Carly memory I'm the program director for suicide prevention service and I work with Family Service Agency and Survivors Healing Center We just want to thank you for your continued support for our agency for our programs We're working really diligently to help people in our community be safe to continue to expand our services to implement new evidence-based Programming even in the face of flat funding or funding cuts So your support means a lot it goes a really long way and specifically for the core funding here for survivors healing center Providing services to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse is hard work. It's rewarding work It's necessary in our community and your willingness to fund this Also helps us to continue to bring it more into the public light so that we can talk about this have conversations about it make Advocacy for protecting children more effective in our community So well it's the needs are very great And we will continue to ask for more in the future years so we can do more good work as we're doing now Your support really means a lot to us and helps us to do the work that we're doing that the community greatly needs So thank you. Thank you All right, we'll bring it back to the board supervisor Coonerty sure just to kick it off I want to move the recommended action Thank our staff and thank the community members who are doing great work and also recognize that there is far more need Then then we have the budget for But that hopefully through collaboration and collective impact will be able to impact more people in more ways In a in a more effective ways So thank you everybody We have a motion from Supervisor Coonerty second from Supervisor Leopold Supervisor Caput well I would I would have What I'm offering is this I See the compassion of how you put this all together. So we're all on the same page there We're trying to help people that really need help I see that foster grandparents is in there when we had a discussion last year and The importance of that and of course meals on wheels. We're taking care of that which was Humbling discussion about a year ago also What I'd like to do is offer to the motion if it's accepted We with immigration work right now the timing and a Actually showing that we're supporting people and what they're going through right now Is very important. We have people that are being separated like never before We have tremendous stress stress on families that are having a hard time getting along and We do have People that are seeking help and trying to get help Legally in in the system that we have and I Would like to just add that we we raised the Community Action Board thriving immigrant initiative for support case management and services with immigrants who have been impacted by the current ice practices from 23 to $30,000 I know we all care about this Yeah, so I wonder if you'd be willing so Absolutely, we absolutely we increased our funding last year for exactly this reason with the idea of These funds are limited, but our HSD has made a commitment to work with The cab work cab to identify other resources I'm wondering if we can change it to a direction to staff to work with cab to identify Other resources to support the immigration project Maybe yes, maybe the only thing what I'm getting at is I've seen them in action There it's in a wonderful old Historic building in Watsonville It's probably about close to a hundred years old There's really no there's no way to heat the offices and there's you know Their their bare-bones Work what they're doing and when you go down the dark hallway At their office on the second floor in the Lennich building in Watsonville you see people lined up many of them only speak Spanish and Many of them are seeking advice and they're coming there and they're in a very safe trusted environment and They're not going to be taken advantage of so Right now there is an increased number of people that are Going to that office and I think I'd like to see the continued support of human services But also making sure that they do have enough money that they don't have to require people to pay for the services They're giving they're only asking for donations. I think that's a wonderful thing by the way Especially when people are working in the field trying to feed their families. I think it's also related to homelessness In a sense of if you have somebody that's undocumented and if they don't have support They're very well can end up in you know in a homeless situation So I would like to add the seven thousand but also with the direction that they Human services continues to show their compassionate support So as I mentioned, I can't add the seven thousand because I mean as we've seen there's a huge need And a limited budget and we want to respect the process that we've been through I am happy to add the direction that HSD work with cab to identify resources to continue to provide these really important services To our community Okay, and let me actually just maybe be a little bit more direct I think in the presentation because this question was asked a couple different times It seemed pretty clear that human services would find additional funding outside of this funding stream to do exactly what you're asking to do So it's just a procedural thing supervisor Coonerty is saying that we should be clean with the funding that we've got The ask that you're making will happen. It just will happen in a different funding stream Through a different a different method. So we're just trying to get through this item So everybody can get funded right now exactly what you're asking for will happen, but in a different way I haven't heard the word funding or they're going to get additional funding from human services money They are going to get additional funding from human services money that that's about as direct as you can get so No obfuscation here in government. So we do have a motion in a second and that was not a friendly amendment You're confident now with what it is Supervisor Caput We can argue about how much the figure is and I think it'll be over the seven or eight thousand that I was asking I Think it would be premature and I wouldn't want to you know negatively Impact the community action agency because we need to sit down and talk with them about what their needs are so that We can fully be responsive in a way that's going to work for them. So I'm not prepared to Suggest a number at this point until we sit down and I've learned more about what we share what our needs are because we're seeing Dramatic and decreases in the number of immigrants who are applying for benefits and we work with the community action board to hear what I anticipate will be Many many unmet demands and because I know you and trust you I'm going to go along with this Well, I appreciate that and what I think you will hear in my presentation Is that our department is one hundred and fifty percent committed to doing everything possible that we can To mitigate the impacts that we're seeing in our community with regard to immigrants and their access to benefits and their fears All right, all those in favor I Opposed it passes unanimously. Thank you for that. We're going to take a ten minute break right now before we come back For the human services Departments so we will come back a little after ten fifty I'd like to call back to order the board of supervisors after our short break And we're going to move on to item four, which is to consider the 2018 19 proposed budgets for the human services department Including any supplemental budget materials is provided in the budget documents. We have the 1718 goals and accomplishments of HSD We've got the HSD 2018 19 proposed budget the line-at-em detail the supplemental the continuing agreements Within the supplemental the fixed assets and the Rada and we have a presentation from Ms. Timberlake Okay, again Ellen Timberlake the human services department. Good morning chair friend members of the board I'd like to start by thanking the CAO and his staff for their assistance in developing our proposed 1819 budget as Noted yesterday Under the fiscal stewardship of your board and the CAO's office the county has made significant progress Strengthening our financial position since the Great Recession Please know that our department is Committed to continuing to support your leadership in this area through our strong fiscal management practices and our commitment to Leverage general fund and aggressively pursue grants whenever possible I'd also like to take a moment to acknowledge members of our leadership team who are present today for their hard work and dedication Throughout the year working with this team motivates and inspires me their talented and committed to the work and Care deeply about helping all of our programs succeed the care for the greater good is a trait You'll see with all human services staff So turning down to our budget presentation before I take your questions I'd like to give you a short overview of our department and our 1718 accomplishments Followed by a review of our financing and a brief summary of several state and federal issues that we're tracking closely Additionally, I'll highlight three emerging issues that we see across all of our programs and share examples of how we're working in partnership to address them Everything we do is informed by our mission statement our North Star as a government steward of critical public Safety net programs the human services department Aspires to strengthen our community by protecting the vulnerable Promoting self-sufficiency alleviating poverty and improving quality of life in Support of our mission we offer a variety of mandated programs and services All of which are designed to help us achieve these four overarching goals Over the course of a year One in three members of our community are served by programs administered by the human services department Our annual report which will be posted to our website in July provides more detailed information on all of these services Last year during budget hearings I emphasize to your board that we view the budget as a tool for ensuring that we do everything we can To accomplish our goals and meet the needs of our customers and clients as you can see by a sample list of our Accomplishments strategies to achieve our goals are informed by data and achieved through partnership What matters most is the experience of our customers and clients and the impact our programs and services are making in their lives As you know, we invest heavily in not just valuing these principles, but tracking outcomes We look at our data through a variety of lens gender race citizenship Geography to ensure our services are benefiting everyone. We pride ourselves on rigorous inquiry and data-driven decision-making I have highlighted for you in the past our key indicator system and our real-time data capabilities Today, I want to raise up the voices of our customers These are just a sample of the phone calls emails and personal notes. I get on a regular basis about our staff Across the board wherever they go and whoever they meet HSD staff are dedicated to making a difference These quotes are very representative of the experience. We aspire to provide for all our clients and customers as Well as the experience we want to see reflected in our workforce and our community partner relationships Now I'll move on to our budget HSD's total proposed budget for fiscal year 1819 is approximately 132 million dollars as you can see from this pie chart our budget is highly leveraged with the lion's share of Financing provided by federal and state funds We also receive realignment or sales tax-based revenue Which is allocated to our county to support a number of social services programs The general fund contribution is a required share of costs that differs by program, but taken together represents 10% of our overall budget Over the last five years our financing sources have remained fairly constant The spike in federal and state financing that you see occurring in fiscal year 1516 is primarily associated with the expansion of the Medi-Cal program for single adults Which was which resulted in over 20,000 additional county residents receiving health care coverage As to pick that on this slide our largest expenditures are for staffing costs followed by other charges Which include direct payments to recipients of entitlement cash aid programs like cow works and general assistance foster care and adoptions assistance as well as provider wages for the in-home supportive services program The majority of the general fund increases included in our proposed fiscal year 1819 budget are associated with the county's required share of cost for these entitlement programs At the federal level we continue to monitor proposed changes to key safety net programs Congress has until September to reauthorize the farm bill which includes funding for the supplemental nutrition assistance program snap Otherwise known as CalFresh in California as you probably know this bill was recently voted down by Congress We're monitoring this very closely as the house version includes both eligibility and work requirement provisions that punish low-income individuals and families in Contrast the Senate version which we expect to vote on before July 4th is quite different It received bipartisan support and looks to strengthen the SNAP program Also of concern or proposed regulatory changes to the public charge policies That govern how use of public benefits may affect individuals immigration status under current policy Individuals may be determined a public charge if they rely on or are likely to rely on public cash assistance or Medi-Cal for long-term care Not only does the new draft proposed policy include the use of non-cash benefits such as health and nutrition programs in public charge Determinations it is also allows the federal government to take into account the use of programs by citizen children and other family members public charge and other unresolved immigration policies like DACA and the recent heart-wrenching practice of mass separation of parents and children at the border and sporadic ice raids at the local level are taking a serious toll on our immigrant community Leading to fear and uncertainty as evidenced by decreased enrollments for many of these families in Cal Fresh and Medi-Cal We will continue to monitor all of these federal issues moving forward and through our state association Advocate to retain critical safety net services for all people At the state level our proposed budget includes a reduction of over one million dollars in allocations Supporting the administration of the Cal Works and IHSS programs Additionally, we've been concerned about whether the final budget would include sufficient funding to fully cover the cost of Implementing the continuum of care reform and child welfare Although some of the areas of concern have been addressed in the final budget agreement Much of the anticipated restoration is in the form of one-time funding We're also very encouraged by the Cal Works grant increases which prevent provide long-needed supports to the safety net These increases would raise the maximum aid payments over a four-year period Beginning with a 10% increase in April 2019 The goal is to get all children and families in Cal Works to 50% of the federal poverty level by fiscal year 2021-22 Other new investments in home-based visiting for Cal Works families and Housing subsidies for at-risk seniors offer new tools to support those we serve Today I'd also like to focus your attention on three cross-cutting issues that we're seeing in all of our programs The issues themselves are by no means new What is new however is the growing number of individuals in our communities impacted by them To address these emerging issues we rely on some of the following promising partnerships tools and resources Let's start with homelessness That's reflected in Rainey's presentation It is clear that more of our local residents find themselves either homeless or at risk of homelessness in the most recent point-in-time Data count our youth followed by seniors represented the fastest growing age groups of those experiencing homelessness Within our department. We see this showing up in an increased numbers of adult protective services referrals for homeless At-risk seniors and disabled individuals with our youth We know that kids in the foster care system are four times more likely to experience homeless homelessness And as depicted in this picture painted by one of our youth homeless advisory members We see a powerful expression of feeling ignored and invisible This picture is on the cover of the community plan to end homelessness in youth homelessness and Offers the inspiration for a redoubling of our efforts to in their words be ignored no more Our department in collaboration with a network of partners is committed to addressing homelessness and housing insecurity For example through rapid rehousing funding from the California Department of Social Services Approximately 80 homeless families receiving CalWorks have received housing support this fiscal year And I'd like to note that over the past three years for this program. We've housed over a hundred and forty CalWorks families who are still 98% of whom are still in housing After support from this program We're also working with the community to increase capacity for employment and training programs for the homeless By drawing down federal funding to help successful programs like the downtown streets team Increase their capacity to provide work experience and in partnership with the housing authority We're applying for 100 new family unification and youth housing choice vouchers And as Rainey mentioned HSD is excited to build on the successful implementation of our coordinated entry or smart path program We're very grateful to the homeless services center and Robin McKean for her leadership in Launching this critical component of our system and we look forward to working with our community partners to take it to the next level And to develop outcome measures One of our most important jobs is to ensure that all members of our community who are in need of and entitled to benefits and Services get them for this to happen. We must analyze data to identify underserved populations Understand the barriers they face in accessing our services Employees strategies to mitigate the barriers and ensure that the strategies are evidence-based and responsive to the diversity We see in our community For example as I noted earlier we believe current immigration policies are having a negative impact on the number of immigrant families Accessing CalFRS many do not feel safe reaching out to government. Some parents feel Are experiencing fear being separated from children based on their immigration status? We also know that the recent gender matters report and our participation in the justice and gender task force That women who are incarcerated and their families face unique challenges and getting the support they need So what are some of the ways we're responding to underserved populations? First know that HSD is committed to doing whatever it takes including traveling to the four counties of corners of the county Enrolling customers into benefits at college campuses homeless shelters correctional facilities and it targeted neighborhood events to name a few Working closely with our community partners such as second harvest food bank and the Santa Cruz immigration project To get accurate information to those who may be concerned about receiving benefits due to their immigration status Employee technology to make it easy and possible to apply for and maintain benefits and Working to improve services to incarcerated parents and their children who are involved in child welfare through increased coordination with the sheriff's department Targeted behavioral health support is another area where we see a growing demand for services across all programs We see this in the children youth in our child welfare system who are impacted by trauma and in our seniors who are increasingly reporting feelings of isolation and depression To address these needs we again rely on opportunities for collaboration and partnership For example, I am very very excited to announce that our department is working closely with the Museum of Art and History On an upcoming exhibit that will focus on senior isolation and loneliness Our hope is that through a community-wide effort We will increase awareness and spark community actions similar to what we experienced with lost childhood exhibit I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank and recognize Mimi Hall the interim director of the health services agency and Fernando Gerardo the chief probation officer and their respective staff As you know our three departments have a long-standing history of strong partnership Partnership based on shared values and a commitment to developing integrated system of care These initiatives represent just several of the recent examples of our joint efforts to improve behavioral outcomes for those in need I'd like to end my presentation with a word cloud. I grew fond of word clouds as a member of the county strategic planning steering committee This one caught my eye because it captures so many of the values that your board RCAO and all employees of Santa Cruz County aspire to uphold and with that This concludes my presentation and at this time. I'd be happy to Answer any of your questions and ask that you adopt the recommended budget and supplemental items Thank You miss Timberlake and thank you for your departments for markable work, especially during this time right now Are there other board members that would like to ask any questions or make any comments to start off? Supervisor Leopold, thank you chair. Thank you miss Timberlake for the presentation. It's We could spend all day talking about the Human Services Department because the the reach of your staff is is incredibly broad It goes very deep into the community and provides incredibly important services So thank you and thank you to all the staff who helped make that happen, you know when I when When I think about the the work that I see ongoing all the time with human services I'm incredibly impressed by the commitment to evidence-based practices to really looking at data to drive To drive where programming was would go and the deep commitment to partnership Within the county family and in the community is a real hallmark of the department And I just want to that starts at the top, but it's but it's pervasive throughout the entire department And I'm very appreciative. I have the pleasure of serving with Miss Bali on the justice and gender task force and I've just seen how Issue comes across the the transom where Human Services Department can make a difference and Miss Bali immediately jumped on it work with staff work to To create a create a response didn't wait for some decision by the task force worked very Quickly to start addressing and I just want to appreciate that You know when when we think about the external factors that affect the work we do here in Santa Cruz you mentioned a couple of them the the the The the deeply inhumane way in which they're looking in Washington at things like the Cal fresh program Which is you know food is basic sustenance, right? We cannot survive and The the fact that they keep on throwing impediments to people accessing these services and through their Incredibly divisive rhetoric and actions. We see people who can benefit from these services Stepping away from accessing these services. So I appreciate the commitment that the department has to keep on finding new ways You know recently there was a pro-publica story that featured Santa Cruz about the raids that happened here in February of 2017 and a year later there are people still greatly impacted by those raids and I've seen it in live oak schools. I am in my conversation with parents involved with the cradle to career program I Hear these stories and the article really highlighted that It might be over a year old, but it the impact is and the crater it left is is it's still being felt by a lot of people so Regardless of what happens in November or whether there's going to be any change in in Congress we're going to be dealing with the ripples of of the Of the callous acts of this administration for a long time and and you're going to be on the on on On the front lines of dealing with that Mention the cradle to career Program I just want to acknowledge your staff member Leslie good friend serves as co-chair of the of the initiative This past year has been a great year of success for the cradle to career initiative And this collective impact project has been able to attract resources So we're able to expand to schools in the live oak school district and that wouldn't have happened without Leslie's leadership and deep commitment And the department's commitment to help make that happen I also want to acknowledge the work of the veteran services group we Deal with requests from veterans all the time that they've been very Helpful and addressing needs are out there when we look about the kind of work that they're doing They are helping making the difference in the lives of people who've served our country So I'm very appreciative of that the workforce Development board and the work that mr. Stone is doing The kind of expansion that's going on this year with the Cal works program is very impressive And it's actually so much what we need in order to Help people get into the workforce stay in the workforce be Competitive in their jobs, and I just want to thank the work of Of that group as well The the sort of unsung Members of your staff, I don't work with them directly, but I just appreciate both the child welfare services Adult protective services we we have to call them at times to help with constituents concerns the staff is always there to to help respond and to Go into action to help people out and I'm very grateful for that of my constituents And I think the whole community is grateful for the work that you're doing there So I'm in regular all of the work of the human services department, and I would just want to express my appreciation to you and all the staff Thank you so much. Thank you so far as McPherson. Yes, I You know 132 million dollar budget is big money But it's even bigger of what you do with that and you're in the whole staff Or to be commended It's really impressive of how many people we reach with some basic so basic but necessary services I really want to thank you for the The huge outreach efforts that you've made to some newly heightened concerns Homelessness and immigration probably the most pronounced and Also to say thank you for working with the Museum of Art and History to get to the general public to Come in and understand Comfortably so to speak what are some of these really issue? Pressing issues that you are addressing and we are addressing as a county the lost childhood Foster care we had a board meeting there the seniors in isolation These are community issues that are all around us But I don't think people really understand the severity of them and the the need for us to address them So I want to thank you for the cooperative effort that you've had with others public agencies to and non-profit agencies to Just to let people know what is out there and what we're trying to do to address and improve those situations The the most pressing issue that I see Nor one of homelessness and immigration certainly are there but the in-home support services and I think we're going to be hearing some some comments, but the action that was taken by the State Department of Social Services to Shift the non-federal costs in 1718 they were going to do it this year and with the work of CISAC and some local governments In county governments throughout the state we were able to put that off that They were going to shift that responsibility They are going to shift that responsibility down to the counties We held it off this fiscal year and next fiscal year But this is going to be a huge problem a multimillion dollar problem that we have to fill and I can tell you that the County governments throughout the state are working on how to correct that. I mean, it's over three maybe four million dollar Problem that hit that you put on counties that would be fully responsible for so so I appreciate your input and The the folks in Sacramento that we've been able to to discuss this with But this is going to be something that's going to really hit hard in a couple of years, but I appreciate Your efforts and everybody throughout the county here and throughout the state for that matter for At least giving us some breathing room to see how we can adjust to this huge multi-million dollar Problem we're going to have to provide this essential service to our county residents If I might I would also like to acknowledge your leadership in this area And we really appreciate the strong voice that you've had in Sacramento not just currently but last year as well And we will do everything in our power to try to mitigate as much as we can Thank you survivors on first and supervisor Caput Thank you and Yeah, I'm glad to see the The help you're doing and working with Cal fresh and second food harvest I did notice like there's a 12 12% decrease in applications by immigrants and That's related to what we were talking to talking about earlier were with the Santa Cruz County immigration project giving them legal advice and helping them fill out forms and all that it's quite Reasonable to To consider the fact that a lot of the decrease in immigrant supplying is the fact that they have to put down their name address Phone number and in order to fill out an application and they're more worried now than they were before So that's why what you're doing is very important And that way they can at least get food on their table and they can also fill out of you know a simple form without living in fear that maybe somehow they're impacting their family because we we do have a lot of Blended families in South County where some of them when one family are here with Documentation they're born here. They're citizens Others have a green card and then others are they have no card whatsoever So we we have to be very careful. We don't fracture families while we're doing this work Now compliments, I guess you're willing to take a lot of compliments on the next issue the veterans Services in Santa Cruz County In my opinion is going as well as I've seen it in a long long time About five six years ago. There were unfunded positions There was no real outreach and the coordination that you have to do. I think is very commendable We're talking about federal positions that are funded. We're talking about state positions that are funded We're talking about county funding. That's also going into these different Services that we're offering We're dealing with the Watsonville's Veteran services now that has gone from one and one and a half days a week to four days a week of Actually being open and having a door there where veterans can drop in and say This is my problem and they also make reservation they reserve a A Time time to go in and before they would end up going to Amaline Street or they would end up going to Santa Cruz And now they could just if they live in the South County or Watsonville. They can go to the Watsonville office That's very commendable because Lorena Vasquez the work she's doing and all the positions being filled One example is the outreach part-time Funding that we provide We're an outreach worker is going out there and Talking to in many cases homeless veterans or veterans that have fallen through the cracks and Are not getting the services or benefits that they deserve one example is I was knocking on doors about a couple of two years ago and One veteran in a poorer part of the town Had broke his leg and it he broke it like a week before he called up the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital and they actually said well you can come we have a reservation for you to come up here 30 days from now well anyway We called the veterans outreach worker to go and visit with them and Within two days they took him up to they actually transported him up got him Transportation to go to the Palo Alto Hospital to set that leg 30 days later. I don't think they could have said it right they would have to re-break it probably Anyway, that's that's a good work that we actually see happening and We have also the Veterans Center and Santa Cruz going really well and staffed and also 41st Avenue and And also offering transportation to Palo Alto or the new Veterans Clinic in Monterey So that takes a lot of coordination. I think what's really commendable when I when I'm talking to different components of this Federal state and county that they all know who to talk to and they all know which is the right referral and That was not happening Five or six years ago, so I want to commend you on that Anyway, and then we're also we already talked about it before where human services is going to step forward and help out the Immigration project in Watsonville. So thank you very much So advisor Kennedy Thank you for your work This is when you look at the clients that you serve these are folks who need a specific intervention at a specific time often This intervention is critical and if it's right We can get people get their lives back on track and and Stabilized and save us money and them pain in the future So and I want to appreciate Your commitment to data and then continues improvement and also employee training It's it's really a Leader in our county and I think a leader in the state for the work you do For your accomplishments, you have very clear Numbers and goals that you met and then but your goals are a little more broad I'd be interested in and we don't have to do this now But in the future having a little more clarity on what specifically you're looking to do over the year and how Hopefully if aren't derailed by really harsh and ineffective federal policy changes what we'll be able to accomplish in terms of Serving these particular populations one of the things I might want to add about that I think your observation about that is absolutely accurate and what we could do better And I actually look forward to talking about this as we move into the performance data discussions county-wide is How do we give space to both process outcomes and Initiatives that we see coming forward in the in the new year that haven't yet received all the input that we need to Actually clarify those so I can see some ways that we could possibly address your issues that are accurate and find a way to Maybe separate those and in a fashion that could be a little bit more or you know fine-tuned on those numbers that you're looking for So thank you for that input. Thank you when I open it up to the community There's an opportunity for members of the community to address this on the human services department We may from the community like to address us specifically on item four Please feel free to step forward. Thank you Good morning. I know that I got to the community action board of Santa Cruz County I just want to start off this morning by saying thank you thank you for the leadership of the department I feel a full-force commitment to help create a response plan to what's happening in the community We know that that our families what they're going through We're seeing it in the data and we have to do something different And I want to say that Ellen and I have had wonderful conversations about what are strategies that we that we need to Look at how do we do business in a different way? We have to do it in a different way people aren't coming out and I don't blame them I wouldn't be out either and so I think I feel the commitment I feel the support in the direction from the board. I feel the advocacy from Supervisor Caput. Thank you so much We will we will come together and the vision is to have seamless services The community doesn't need to know who's providing the service. It has to be seamless It's about being able to find a strategy that works in the most difficult of times And I believe that we can make that happen. So I want to thank you and thank the leadership of the department Thank you. Thanks those comments Good morning. Welcome. Hi. I'm Stacy Garcia and I'm the director of community engagement at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History And I'm just here on behalf of the mod to support the proposed budget and I'm just speak to the incredible partnership We've had over the past couple of years that is just growing with the human services department Last year you all were invited to have conversations with foster youth at the museum for our last childhoods exhibition That was done in partnership with the human services department and through that exhibition We were able to really meaningful change her foster youth here in our community People not only stepped up to donate items and to volunteer, but people became causes people donated cars We employed foster youth and one family even stepped up to become foster parents as a result of that exhibition And so these kinds of creative partnerships and really highlighting the work that the human services department is doing and Creative and innovative ways really broadens the reach of what we can do and how we can invite our community to step up and take action On these issues that are so important And I'm really excited to share that we're going to be launching a new initiative focused on the social isolation of seniors in Our community starting in September. We will host meetings with seniors Advocates artists and leaders across our community to really think about how can we share the stories of seniors who are Experiencing social isolation and invite our community to take action so that we have stronger social connections across our community And particularly with seniors seniors who are affected by this So just speaking in support of that and thank you for coming to meet foster youth And I hope you'll come to meet seniors once we work on this exhibition coming up this fall. Thanks. Thank you morning Morning, my name is victorious Alexander civil society activists I want to be able to share our members of the public that the American public is struggling living from paycheck to paycheck Wallowing in a capricious existence and we all understand this this is trying times But I find it very shameful that you know, I'm hearing your presentation, right? And I love the catchy words, you know fiscal stewardship redoubling community partnership work experience at the HSD Community white actions strong partnership or word cloud Evidence-based practice and I want to remind the the not the last speaker, but the previous speaker Where she talked about the community doesn't need to know Where the money's going and how it's being spent now the meaning of the community does need to know where it's going And how it's being spent because civil society activists that do fall on hard times like myself You know, I'm being politically prosecuted in Santa Clara County. I'm an exile over here my bank accounts frozen My offshore accounts because I was successful I have no shame for my humanity when I fall on hard times and I'm relying on the general assistance Right and I go in there trying to shape the policies that affect the American public What they want to do is they want to vulgarize and criminalize my activism my activism doesn't stop at the door I'm able to engage in lawful activity and participate. I find it very shameful and I would ask Ellen Timberlake You're a good woman. You have given me many Audience with you the last time you ran away because I have my GoPro. I don't want my my activism being criminalized. I would say that Emily Bali your leadership is is obsolete I would ask for your resignation because the work experience that you're doing Right is enslaving the American public with purposeless work hiding behind work experience We don't want to turn good lot buying citizens into public slaves. We're not here to gravel over the system We're not here for political servitude. We're here to be liberated. Thank you. Okay, and mr. Alexander We're focusing on the budget here. Is there anybody else I'd like to address us on the budget for human services My name is Serge Cagno. I work a lot of different homeless stuff some of the coordinating committees with Rainey on the YHDP and the smart path I work to the winter shelter over the winter And I just really wanted to thank Emily and thank the human services team for all of the Flexibility to access services that we had a bunch of meetings about getting different Assessors for CalFresh and GA and all the different programs to the winter shelter to make it more of a navigation center model and it was It was just that flexibility and that definite Goal of trying to help people that was something that they were always willing to try to figure out a way to make things happen Just wanted to shout out to the team. Thank you. I Thank you. Is anybody else who'd like to address us Okay, we'll bring it back to the board. Just like to note that those comments only reflect one individual and nobody else in the entire world Ms. Volley So but he's welcome to express them that is why we live in a democracy But I think every single day you do work and Ms. Timberlake does work and the entire staff does work for people That don't have a voice and they're not here to say it, but trust me. They would thank you if they could Is there an action from the board on the side of the recommended actions on the human services department budget second We have a motion from Supervisor Leopold a second from Supervisor Coonerty all those in favor aye opposed passes unanimously We'll move on to item 5 which is to consider the thrive by three early childhood funds 2017-18 implementation progress support and nurse family partnership annual report 2018 Approve the proposed child care development fee increase and direct the Human Services Department to return honor before October 30 2018 with an updated CCDF ordinance and approve the proposed thrive by three funding allocation for fiscal year 1819 direct HSD in the health services agency to return on or before August 28th of 18 with recommendations on various thrive by three allocations and Take related actions as outlined in the memo of the director of Human services and interim director of health services We have the thrive by three early childhood fund 17-18 implementation progress support and attachments and the nurse family partnership annual report Will begin with miss Timberlake. Thank you chair friend. I am very pleased to be joined Today with Mimi Hall the interim director of the health services agency and as directed by the board We're here this morning to provide an update on thrive by three activities expenditures and funding recommendations for fiscal year 1819 and today the presentation will be led by Emily Bali the deputy director of the Human Services Department and Jennifer Herrera director of nursing for health services agency with that I'll turn it over to you. Great. Thank you, Ellen Our presentation this morning will begin with a brief overview of the thrive by three initiative Then a review of the goal areas Sorry, I'm clicking to And progress and then within this review Jennifer will provide a deeper dive into one of the home visiting programs supported by thrive by three The nurse family partnership We will also discuss future system initiatives and investments to support thrive by three and then review funding recommendations for fiscal year 1819 on January 24th of last year your board voted to dedicate $350,000 to implement the thrive by three initiative with the goal of improving outcomes for Santa Cruz County's youngest and most vulnerable children prenatal through age three and their families The following June the board adopted the thrive by three system of care model that outlined outcomes in the following areas Babies are born healthy Families have the resources they need to support children's optimal development Young children live in safe nurturing families and children are happy healthy and thriving by age three HSD and HSA through partnerships with first five in compass early childhood education providers and safety net clinics Were able to identify ways to more than double the initial investment to $723,000 After the adoption of the initial implementation plan and approval of service agreements Implementation of thrive by three began in February of this year Next we will review the thrive by three implementation goal areas and progress Strategies and funding for thrive by three fall into these three goal areas Enhanced system capacity strategies focus on home visiting programs and high quality infant and toddler care Enhanced system coordination targeted towards increasing coordination among the thrive by three partners and services and Strengthened system of care foundation which focus on critical system building efforts for development funding Implementation and evaluation of the thrive by three system of care First we'll review strategies to enhance system capacity The first strategy to address system capacity is geared towards increasing capacity to home visiting for high-risk families Through the investment of CalWorks funding CalWorks recipients who are pregnant and or have children under the age of three are being Referred screened and routed to the home visiting program that best fits their needs From February through April of this year 26 CalWorks families have been enrolled in one of the four existing home visiting programs that serve families children Children prenatal through it three years old The four home visiting programs that serve thrive by three families are Families together and early head start home visiting through encompassed community services Public health field nursing and nurse family partnership through the health services agency I'm now going to turn the presentation over to Jennifer who'll provide additional information about one of these programs the nurse family partnership As you are aware nurse family partnership is an evidence-based home visiting program That serves first-time mothers and their families from pregnancy until their child turns two years old Here's a quote from the program's founder dr. David Olds There is a magic window during pregnancy It's a time when the desire to be a good mother and raise a healthy happy child Creates motivation to overcome incredible obstacles including poverty Instability or abuse with the help of a well-trained nurse NFP leverages this magic window to improve pregnancy outcomes child health and development and the family's economic self-sufficiency 2017 was a very busy year for santa cruz county nurse family partnership In february our local program received initial approval from NFP's national office to implement the program Although the health services agency had spent prior years garnering support To bring this program to the county In march we hired four public health nurse home visitors pictured here In april we accepted referrals while the ph n's completed their training in may we enrolled our first client Last july we implemented an electronic charting system Which has allowed us to analyze data more efficiently In last august our first nfp baby was born We expect our first nfp graduation in this county in may of next year From april 2017 through april 2018 we received 159 referrals for nfp Of the 159 total referrals 116 were eligible for nfp services 95 or 82 of the total eligible referrals enrolled into the program This shows that our program has been successful at converting eligible referrals into enrollments This graph represents the frequency of completed home visits and clients served in a 12 month period The dark blue represents clients served and th