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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and all necessary documents and any subsequent amendments, including amending the terms or changing the amount of the award, with Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), to accept and expend grant funding in the amount of $125,000 for the Strengthening the Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood Program, for a 15-month period, to begin June 1, 2021 through September 31, 2022, with the option to extend the agreement for three additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and
Increase appropriations in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $125,000, offset by grant revenues. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) is a federal technical provider and performance management evaluator for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Family Assistance (OFA). As part of the OFA process and study session, the MDRC selected ten OFA Fundamentals of Father Program (FFP) grantees to participate in a 15-month learning cycle called Strengthening the Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood (SIRF). The City of Long Beach (City) was selected as one of the ten national grantees to participate in the SIRF program study. The FFP strives to promote positive father-child interactions, improve parents’ relationship with each other and their capacity to parent as a team, and build fathers’ economic stability.
SIRF seeks to improve Responsible Fatherhood programming using a continuous cycle of evidence building, implementation, and adaptation that is attuned to the real-world needs of the people who provide the services and the fathers who use them. MDRC is allowing the City the flexibility to use the funds as best fits the program design. MDRC will provide $125,000 to support the hiring of staff, consultants, father incentives, and other items to participate in SIRF. The funding ...
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