TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Jennifer Yasumoto, Director of Health and Human Services
REPORT BY: Summer Isham, Contracts Supervisor
SUBJECT: Approval of Recommendations for Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) Grant Awards
RECOMMENDATION
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Approve recommendations for Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) grant awards to support community health. (Fiscal Impact, $5,000,000 Expense; General Fund; Tobacco Master Settlement Division; Budgeted; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
For over two decades, the Board of Supervisors has committed to making MSA funds the County receives available for grant awards to support community health. The responsibility of the MSA grant process is assigned to Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA), although the funds reside in the Napa County general government services operating budget. Each MSA grant cycle, staff recommends and carries out a process that enables the County to target MSA funds on specific areas of safety-net services to help mitigate the impacts felt by those most vulnerable in our community.
Concurrent with the opening of this year's MSA process, Napa County HHSA recently completed its Community Health Assessment (CHA) and sponsored the Napa Older Adults Assessment (NOAA), which staff determined provided a unique opportunity to align MSA funding to address priorities that emerged through those assessments. As was shared with the Board on April 23, 2024, the projects and services funded by MSA will become the strategies for our 3-year Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) addressing four priorities identified in the CHA and NOAA including Access to Health Services (including Fall Prevention), Housing, Economic Stability (including Food Security and Transportation), and Race Equity & LGBTQ Inclusion. To maximize and leverage funding strategically, HHSA intends to develop strategies for the fifth area in the CHA and NOAA, Behavioral Health, instead using Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) and Opioid S...
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