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Board approves contracts supporting youth mental-health and summer-employment programs
Summary
The Board approved vendor agreements with NAMI, Catalyst Life Services and Casey (Community Action for Capable Youth) to fund perinatal and parent-advocate services, summer youth employment for non-TANF youth, and suicide-prevention outreach; combined contracts total roughly $87,699.40 across fiscal windows noted in the record.
The Richland County Board of Commissioners approved several vendor agreements May 13 to fund mental-health supports and summer youth employment programs for county youth.
The Board approved two contracts with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): a perinatal program contract for $21,100 and a parent-advocate support services contract for $11,000. County staff said the perinatal contract will focus on mothers at risk for or diagnosed with postpartum depression and that NAMI had lost state funding for its parent-advocate work and was again seeking local support.
Youth and Family Council staff presented a contract with Catalyst Life Services for $49,999.40 covering the non-TANF-eligible portion of the summer youth employment program. "This contract would be for ... $49,999.40. This is gonna be our part for the summer youth employment program," staff said, adding that the county will cover youth not eligible for TANF while TANF-eligible youth remain under Job and Family Services support.
The Board also approved a $5,600 agreement with Casey (Community Action for Capable Youth) for suicide-prevention programming targeted primarily to ages 12 to 21; staff said the $5,600 will support work reaching about 300 participants in Richland County.
All four agreements were presented with effective periods noted in the meeting record and were approved by motion. Staff and commissioners did not request additional county appropriations beyond the sums in the agreements as presented in the meeting.
