Alameda County Policy

April 02, 2013 - The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) invites you to participate in the Mental Health Workforce Education and Training (WET) Program community forums. These community forums will engage stakeholders to provide feedback on the next Mental Health WET Five-Year Plan. The Mental Health WET Five-Year-Plan provides a framework on how to improve and develop mental health workforce education and training programs at the County, Regional, and State Levels. The...Read more »

March 14, 2013 - Please note that the previously announced date of Alameda County Interagency Children’s Policy Council's (ICPC) April Children's Policy Brown Bag has been cancelled, and the new date is TBD. Details will be coming soon. Read more »

March 14, 2013 - The Alameda County Public Health Department is in the process of setting up a new grant program to support innovative projects to reduce adult recidivism in Alameda County. The timeline for the first round of funding will be very quick. Sign up here to receive more information and the final RFP as soon as it is available. About the Alameda County Realignment Innovations Fund: Realignment Innovations Fund (RIF)...Read more »

February 14, 2013 - The Alameda County Social Services Agency (SSA), Department of Children and Family Services, announced on 2/7/13 the release of a new request for proposals (RFP) for the procurement of proposals from organizations for provision of community based family support services (Kinship Support) to both formal and informal relative caregivers in Alameda County. READ MORE. Read more »

February 14, 2013 - On Thursday, February 14, 2013, National Center for Youth Law and Young Minds Advocacy Project issued a report on mental health service access among Alameda County foster youth placed in other counties. Past research by National Center for Youth Law has shown that foster youth placed out of county have dramatically reduced access to medically necessary mental health services, due primarily to a number of administrative and logistical factors. In the press...Read more »

February 07, 2013 - The Alameda County Probation Department has received a $75,000, 12-month Positive Youth Justice Initiative planning grant from the Sierra Health Foundation to improve the outcomes of young people with a history in the child welfare system and now engaged in the juvenile justice system, often referred to as crossover youth. As the Sierra Health Foundation's website points out, "data shows that crossover youth experience extremely poor outcomes when they age...Read more »

December 19, 2012 - On December 19, 2012, Alameda County Social Services Agency (SSA) and Alameda County Probation Department, announced the release of a new request for proposals (RFP): Summer and Afterschool Youth Employment and Education Program for Alameda County child welfare involved youth, at-risk probation youth, Cal-Learn youth ages 14 to 19, and CalWORKs “head of household” youth ages 18 to 19 for the time period of May 1, 2013 to...Read more »

December 12, 2012 - The Alameda County Board of Supervisors has appointed LaDonna Harris as the county's permanent chief probation officer.  Harris had been Acting Chief since March.  More on Harris's appointment at the Newark Patch and the Contra Costa Times.Read more »