DATE:
April 26, 2022
12
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
AUTHORIZE EXTENSION OF CONTRACTS RELATED TO OPERATIONS AT SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY (DISTRICTS: ALL)
Body
OVERVIEW
San Pasqual Academy (the Academy) opened in 2001 and is a first-in-the-nation residential education campus designed to meet the unique needs of adolescent youth in the foster care system and to prepare them for self-sufficiency upon exiting care. Over the last five years, federal and State legislation has significantly shifted the statutory requirements for keeping children safely with families, resulting in sweeping legislative changes that identify home-based settings with resource families as the best placement option for youth and reduce the reliance on and use of congregate care. Given these changes, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors (Board) has undertaken significant consideration of the future of the Academy in the last year. In response to actions taken by the Superior Court of California and the California Department of Social Services, on January 25, 2022 (19), the Board approved continued operations at the Academy, as needed, to support the transition to a continuum of care multipurpose campus to serve youth in foster care and directed the CAO to continue to explore options for a mixed-use campus for a combination of youth populations including youth in foster care, youth at risk of entering foster care, unaccompanied minors, and youth interacting with the juvenile justice system.
The contract extension to operate the Academy authorized by the Board on July 13, 2021 (6) is set to expire on June 30, 2022. Today's action requests the Board to authorize an amendment to the County of San Diego (County), Health and Human Services (HHSA) Child Welfare Services contract with New Alternatives, Inc., to increase the contract amount and extend the contract term for 11 months from May 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023 for residential/education services, Independent Living S...
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