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Consider recommendations regarding federal, state and local child abuse and neglect prevention funding, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Contract with Child Abuse Listening and Mediation (CALM) (a local vendor) in the amount of $192,000.00 to provide targeted child abuse and neglect prevention services in collaboration with Lompoc, Santa Ynez, Santa Barbara, Isla Vista and Carpinteria Family Resource Centers in Mid-County and South County, which will be funded by a combination of local, state and federal child abuse prevention funds; and
b) Approve funding recommendations in the amount of $103,577.00 for the Children’s Trust Fund, which include the following:
i) $23,577.00 to CALM, as partial funding source for the contract recommended above;
ii) $40,000.00 to St. Vincent’s PATHS program for residential services to at-risk families; and
iii) $40,000.00 to the Santa Barbara Child Abuse Prevention Council for public awareness and education in the prevention of child abuse and neglect.