Through this agreement, Parent Partners will provide supportive services to children and families that are involved with child welfare services or are at risk of child welfare involvement. Parent Partners provide direct support to families in maintaining safe and stable homes, facilitating access to sufficient food and clothing, medical care, substance abuse and/or mental health services, and providing parenting and child development education.
This agreement has two functional areas:
- Parent Learning and Supportive Services – Serves families who have been the subject of a child abuse/neglect referral but do not meet criteria for a child welfare intervention based on a standardized assessment of child safety. These families can be referred to a Parent Partner to help assess the needs of the participating family and connect them to community resources. Parent Partners also deliver evidence-based parenting programs.
- RED Team – Allows for multi-agency case planning to facilitate referral to and coordination of services by assuring lawful procedures for sharing information regarding families referred for Parent Partner child maltreatment prevention services are adhered to and documented appropriately.
These services are built on the Strengthening Families approach that seeks to help families increase protective factors, including: parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete supports in times of need and children having social and emotional competence. Research supports that healthy child development is promoted when these factors are present in a family. The outcomes monitoring of this agreement includes data collection regarding development of these protective factors among families receiving services.
The Shasta County Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council (SCCAPCC) leverages the dollars provided by the county to acquire federal financial matching dollars through the AmeriCorps program. Contracting with SCCAPCC to provide these services through the utilization of AmeriCorps workers allows these services to be provided at a lower cost to the county than if they were provided without AmeriCorps or provided in-house.
By authorizing the HHSA Director or HHSA Branch Director to sign minor amendments that do not result in a substantial or functional change to the agreement, and changes in any line item budgeted expense in the Budget up to a maximum of 10 percent between categories within each line item budget expense provided the maximum compensation specified in Section 4.A. of this agreement is not exceeded it will allow efficiency during the term of the agreement.