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Accept the Solano Partnership Against Violence Advisory Board's FY2020 - 2022 Strategic Plan
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Published Notice Required? Yes ____ No _X _
Public Hearing Required? Yes ____ No _X _
DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The department recommends the Board accept the Solano Partnership Against Violence Advisory Board's FY2020 - 2022 Strategic Plan.
SUMMARY:
The Solano Partnership Against Violence (SPAV) serves as an advisory board to the County Board of Supervisors and makes recommendations to the Board regarding policies, legislation, and funding related to family violence issues. They promote awareness and encourage collaboration towards a systematic approach to ending family violence in Solano County. In order to support these efforts, SPAV has developed a new Strategic Plan for FY2020-2022 to improve local prevention and intervention efforts on all issues of family and interpersonal violence in Solano County.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
There is no General Fund impact associated with acceptance of the SPAV FY2020 - 2022 Strategic Plan. However, the Office of Family Violence Prevention (OFVP), administered by the District Attorney's Office, received 86.0% or $673,731 of its funding for FY2019/20 from the General Fund. Because OFVP provides the staffing to SPAV as written in the SPAV By Laws, any costs associated with preparing the agenda item and said staff support is indirectly absorbed through the General Fund. The costs associated with preparing the agenda item are nominal and absorbed by the department's FY2019/20 Adopted Budget.
DISCUSSION:
SPAV was created in 1991 as a group of concerned professionals who convened monthly brown bag lunch meetings to discuss improving service delivery by public and private agencies to those affected by domestic violence. In 1995, it became the County's domestic violence task force planning body and was designated an independent entity operating as a Countywide task force on family and domestic violence by ...
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