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Consider recommendations regarding three-year agreements commencing in Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2017 to deliver services related to the Santa Barbara Veterans Entering Treatment Services (SB-VETS) grant program, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA) (a local vendor) to provide training to mentors, and develop a multi-generational veteran peer mentoring program, gender specific/co-occurring treatment groups, detoxification and short-term residential treatment to veterans participating in the SB-VETS grant program in FFY 2017-2020, with a total contract amount not to exceed $245,970.00;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with New Beginnings Counseling Center (NBCC) (a local vendor) to provide Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) focused psychotherapy groups and a Court Liaison for veterans participating in the SB-VETS grant program in FFY 2017-2020, with a total contract amount not to exceed $75,000.00;
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) (a local vendor) to provide the evaluation component of the SB-VETS grant program in FFY 2017-2020, with a total contract amount not to exceed $105,000.00;
d) Authorize the Chief Probation Officer or designee to approve subsequent line-item budget changes to Attachment B-1 of each Agreement in an amount not to exceed 10% of the stated line-item budgeted amounts for each service, as long as the total contract amount of each Agreement is not increased, and as long as the total budgeted amounts by each funding source are not exceeded;
e) Approve the Budget Revision Request No. 0005328; and
f) Determine that approval of the Agreements are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursu...
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