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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board:
1) Accept, with gratitude, a donation of $137,000 from William David Worlow on the behalf of the Michael and Sarah Worlow Neri Exempt Trust, to support the efforts of HHSA Public Health Division California Children's Services; and
2) Authorize the HHSA Director, or HHSA Chief Assistant Director, to execute further document(s) relating to the donation from William David Worlow on the behalf of the Michael and Sarah Worlow Neri Exempt Trust, to the HHSA, Public Health Division, California Children’s Services.
FUNDING: 100% William David Worlow on the behalf of the Michael and Sarah Worlow Neri Exempt Trust.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
The California Crippled Children’s Act is a statewide program established in 1927 and refined in 1978 through the Robert W. Crown California Children’s Services Act as described in California Health and Safety Code. The broadest application of the Act is to provide a program of services to children and youth from birth up to the age of 21 who are afflicted with life limiting diseases, physical and functional debility and specific genetic abnormalities. Examples of covered medical conditions include cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, rare blood factor disease, heart transplant (many causes), and catastrophic brain trauma.
The Public Health Division California Children’s Services (CCS) program provides services to an average of 650-850 families per year. HHSA’s Public Health Division oversees the CCS program in El Dorado County.
The beneficiaries of the Michael and Sarah Worlow Neri Family Trust, established in 1996 and amended in 2000, specifically established the Children’s Services Program of El Dorado County (931 Spring St, Placerville) as a Contingent Beneficiary along with several other community-based services. The consideration of the County’s CCS program being established as a beneficiary is surmised to be the result of services that were provided to a ...
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