TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Jennifer Yasumoto, Director of Health and Human Services Agency
REPORT BY: Jennifer Ivancie, Staff Services Analyst I
SUBJECT: Amendment No. 1 to Agreement No. 240077B with Innovative Health Solutions
RECOMMENDATION
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Approve and authorize Amendment No. 1 to Agreement No. 240077B with Innovative Health Solutions to support nutritional education by increasing the contract maximum $56,516 for a new contract maximum of $517,916 for Federal Fiscal Years 2024-2026; revise Specific Term and Condition 3.1(l) to reflect the updated amount of Federal funding Innovative Health Solutions will receive under this agreement; and revise Exhibit B to reflect the updated allocation amount. (Fiscal Impact: $517,916 Expense; Health and Human Services Agency Fund; Budgeted; Discretionary).
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BACKGROUND
The Nutrition and Physical Activity Branch (NPAB) of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is one of several programs that receives grant funding for nutrition education and obesity prevention efforts from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In California, SNAP is known as CalFresh, and the SNAP-Ed program is known as CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL).
The mission of CFHL is to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity among California SNAP-Ed eligible residents through educational strategies and multi-level organizational and community-wide public
health approaches that support healthy behaviors at multiple levels of influence.
The priorities of the program include:
? Increased access to and consumption of healthy foods and beverages, with an emphasis on increasing consumption of water;
? Decreased access to and consumption of less healthy foods and beverages, with an emphasis on decreasing consumption of sugar sweetened beverages; and
? Increased physical activity.
CDPH awarded Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) Public Health (PH) Div...
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