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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and all necessary documents, subcontracts, and any necessary amendments, including any amendments to the award amount, with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Family Assistance, to accept and expend grant funding in an annual amount of $999,999, for the Fundamentals of Fatherhood Project, for the period of September 30, 2020 through September 29, 2025, with the option to extend the agreement for one additional year, at the discretion of the City Manager; and
Increase appropriations in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $265,531, offset by grant revenue. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Family Assistance (HHS), has awarded the City of Long Beach (City) a $4,999,995 grant to support the Department of Health and Human Services’ (Health Department) Fundamentals of Fatherhood Project (FFP), for the period of October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2025.
The FFP is a continuation of the fatherhood program, which served nearly 700 fathers from 2015-2020. Under this new grant, the FFP program will serve 900 fathers over the course of the next five years by integrating public health, social services, workforce development, and evidence-based practices to ensure that children are healthy, safe and emotionally secure. Together with partners, the FFP aims to reduce family conflict and enhance family stability, increase fathers’ economic stability to financially provide for a child’s well-being, and establish a citywide fatherhood response network to sustain project impacts.
The FFP will enroll 1,000 low-income adult fathers (aged 18 years and older) from high-need areas in Long Beach to engage in six-months of bi-weekly life coaching sessions plus case management, ten weeks of fatherhood fundamentals and co-parenting group sessions, and workforce development,...
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