QUESTION
Who is the current provider for the employment services contract, and how is the program impacted by budget allocations?
2:21:19
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The Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) is currently contracted to provide service to HASA clients under the employment services contract, facing a budget reduction as part of a Program to Eliminate the Gap (PEG).
- GMHC serves HASA clients under the employment services contract valued at approximately $280,000.
- Tough budget decisions, based on the necessity to allocate 90% of the budget to entitlements, have impacted the contract.
- HRA plans to take the services in-house, working closely with GMHC to ensure a smooth transition for HASA clients.
- Despite the shift, HRA aims to maintain the trust and successful outcomes achieved by GMHC through detailed client communication and leveraging existing relationships.
Lynn Schulman
2:21:19
for the employment services contract with Hasso.
2:21:22
Who is the contracted provider right now?
Scott French
2:21:26
The gay men's health crisis, GMHC.
Lynn Schulman
2:21:29
And what type of clients does the contract serve?
Scott French
2:21:32
Hasla clients.
Diana I. Ayala
2:21:33
Okay.
Lynn Schulman
2:21:34
So how is it determined made determination made to include this peg in the preliminary plan and how is the peg amount calculated?
Scott French
2:21:41
As the commissioner said, very difficult choices had to be made given 90% of our budget is committed to entitlements.
2:21:49
So there were no easy choices for us, but looking at our overall employment services and the other offerings we have burrow based.
2:21:59
You know, this contract was one of the ones that we unfortunately had to put up for the peg.
2:22:03
The contract's value is approximately $280,000.
Lynn Schulman
2:22:08
So you're and you're taking this internally.
2:22:10
Correct?
Scott French
2:22:11
Yes.
Lynn Schulman
2:22:12
So GMHC, which I worked for in a previous life, serves a client population with a long history of mistrust in government and health care related service delivery.
2:22:21
They've built a relationship and reputation with these communities for over 42 years, which is critical to the ability to to successfully manage the RISE contract.
2:22:31
So how will HRA cultivate the same trust and relationship with HASA clients to ensure similarly successful outcomes?
Scott French
2:22:39
Our workers will work closely with GMHC before the contract itself ends to make them aware of the other offerings that we can have and that we can connect them to, we'll provide, you know, communications to them and explain to them in detail what other services are available that can be comparable to what they receive at GMHC.
2:23:00
But, you know, it will it will definitely be a shift, but it is something that we will do closely with GMHC and through our HASSA case workers and other outreach workers who have connections to our HASSA clients as well.
Lynn Schulman
2:23:13
And I presume from your response that you're not gonna ask for restoration of the PEG in the executive plan.
Molly Wasow Park
2:23:19
We're working really closely with OMV on our budget overall, but I really just do wanna reiterate reiterate what administrator French said, this is not a cut that we wanted
Cathy Vargas
2:23:29
to No.
Lynn Schulman
2:23:29
No.
2:23:29
No.
2:23:29
Understood.
Molly Wasow Park
2:23:31
We we were faced with tremendously difficult set of circumstances and a very limited pool of discretionary tax levy.
Lynn Schulman
2:23:37
All right.
