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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents, subcontracts, and subsequent amendments, including amending the award amount, with the Board of State and Community Corrections, California Violence Intervention and Prevention Cohort 4, to accept and expend grant funding in the amount of $9,174 for mental health services for frontline workers engaged in the Long Beach Activating Safe Communities Program from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025, with the option to extend the agreement for an additional one-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager; and
Increase appropriations in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $9,174 offset by grant revenue. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The Board of State and Community Correction (BSCC), California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) Mental Health Services for Frontline Workers Grant, allows the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department) to provide mental health services for frontline workers engaged in its CalVIP-funded program called Long Beach Activating Safe Communities (LB ASC). LB ASC is a citywide program that works to reduce gun violence with a focus on neighborhoods that are disproportionally impacted by gun violence. With this grant, the Health Department seeks to achieve these three goals: 1) Expand frontline workers' resiliency skills to manage vicarious trauma; 2) Increase social connectedness and support between frontline workers; and, 3) Increase frontline workers' ability to implement mental health practices in their lives in order to build long-term capacity to deal with trauma and stress surrounding this work. The Health Department will achieve these goals by providing quarterly mental health training on how to manage vicarious trauma, monthly support group meetings to debrief and process violent events, and quarterly workshops on how to implement different mental health practices such as res...
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