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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any subsequent amendments, between the City of Long Beach and the Los Angeles County Children and Families First - Proposition 10 Commission - First 5 Los Angeles, to accept funding in the amount of $323,423, for the period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, for the Communities Strategy 1 - Shared Vision and Collective Action Initiative - Central Long Beach Learning By Doing Program. (Districts 1,2,6,7)
DISCUSSION
On March 3, 2015, the City Council authorized the Health and Human Services Department (Health Department) to receive funding from the Los Angeles County Children and Families First - Proposition 10 Commission - First 5 Los Angeles (First 5 LA), to implement the Best Start Central Long Beach Learning by Doing Program (Program), formerly known as Best Start Central Long Beach Initiative. The Health Department was awarded a grant in the amount of $323,423 to continue to work with the Best Start Central Long Beach Community Partnership to build community capacity in the Central Long Beach area.
The Central Long Beach community has a long history of working together to impact the services and resources available to area residents. The area has been described as having a “culture of collaboration,” and the participation of multiple sectors is actively promoted. The diversity and extensiveness of the community's leadership has been a model for service coordination.
The Health Department was selected by First 5 LA to be the lead agency in coordinating the Program for this second year of funding. The Health Department will continue the coordination of multiple subcontractors to implement the various strategies and activities included in the performance matrix, which is the plan that was developed in conjunction with the Best Start Community Partnership, the governing body that consists of Central Long Beach residents and agencies serving this area. Residents ...
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