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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board authorize the Purchasing Agent to issue a Purchase Order (PO) to Tulare County Office of Education in the amount of $13,926.57 to pay for two retroactive invoices for the purchase of Friday Night Live and Club Live branded materials and operational binders for local school sites that were shipped and utilized by HHSA staff prior to the issuance of a PO due to an oversight in the purchase request finalization.
FUNDING: Federal Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Block Grant - American Rescue Plan Act Prevention funds.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
The California Friday Night Live (FNL) Partnership program, which also includes the Club Live (CL) program, has been provided in El Dorado County (County) schools since early on in the program's inception, beginning in the late 1980s. HHSA’s Behavioral Health Division Substance Use Disorder (SUD) program serves as the lead division overseeing this program in the County. Within the County, there are 11 active school site chapters (five FNL, four CL, and two FNL Mentoring chapters) that engage over 300 students. The FNL chapter supports youth students in high school whereas the CL chapter supports youth students in middle school. The primary focuses of the FNL program are to: a) form youth-adult partnerships with young people; b) provide programs rich in opportunities that offer support to youth, which enables them to be less likely to engage in problematic behaviors; and c) deliver youth-focused programs which lead to youth having a higher probability to achieve in school, attend higher education levels, or secure a full-time job.
The FNL Partnership program is approved, endorsed, and funded by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) as a part of the County’s SABG prevention set-aside and Coronavirus Relief Supplemental Appropriation Act (CRRSAA) and ARPA grants. Within the State of California, Tulare County is in charge of cre...
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