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DCYF Presents $35M RFP Plan; Supervisors Move Plan to Full Board
Summary
The Department of Children, Youth and Their Families presented a three-year children's services allocation plan emphasizing system-building, geographic equity, new teen and middle-school wellness pilots, and proposing about $35 million in RFPs; the committee moved the resolution to the full Board with recommendation.
Margaret Brodkin, representing the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, presented the department's required three-year children's services allocation plan under Charter section 16.108, describing extensive community engagement and a set of priorities the plan targets.
"We at the Department of Children, Youth and Families spend about 17%" of city children's funding and have engaged roughly 1,000 people and 23 public hearings in the plan's development, Brodkin said. The plan organizes funding into seven priority areas: early care and education; out-of-school-time programs; youth workforce development; family support; wellness and empowerment; violence-response and truancy prevention; and youth empowerment.
Brodkin told the committee DCYF intends to release roughly $35 million in RFPs beginning Feb. 1, including about $8 million targeted for early childhood, and said geographic distribution would be guided by ZIP-code indicators of need and program usage. New initiatives include neighborhood conveners in 23 neighborhoods, family ambassadors, a parent-to-parent website, teen-specific programming, and middle-school wellness center pilots.
She emphasized accountability steps: DCYF plans to fund only agencies that meet minimum standards developed with community-based organizations and to implement peer learning and capacity-building measures. Supervisors questioned allocation amounts for family support and how foster children and specific populations (homeless families, children with special needs, LGBTQ families) are counted; Brodkin said those populations are prioritized in the grant pool and that access plans and outreach are required of grantees.
Supervisor Peskin moved the resolution approving the children's services allocation plan and the committee voted to send it to the full Board with recommendation.
