Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding, and any subsequent documents or amendments, with Long Beach Cares, to receive and expend grant funding in the amount of $100,000 from the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, for the continuation of the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Initiative and implementation of the MBK Health Equity and Violence Prevention Youth Leadership Program; and Increase appropriations in the Health Fund (SR 130) in the Health and Human Services Department (HE) by $100,000, offset by revenue. (Citywide)
When Councilman Mongo. Motion carries. Thank you. Will have number 12. Recommendation to execute a memorandum of understanding with Long Beach cares to receive and expend grant funding in the amount of 100,000 from My Brother's Keeper Alliance for the Continuation of My Brother's Keeper. My Brother's Keeper Initiative Citywide. Thank you. Staff report, please. Kelly Colby. Canadian Honorable Vice Mayor and council members. So the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Equity wrote a grant to the MBK Alliance for $100,000. It is required to go through a501c3, so it is funded through Long Beach Cares, which is the 523 for the department. The funding will be utilized to build a Health Equity and Violence Prevention Youth Leadership Program. So we'll be reaching out to 25 youth, ages 16 to 22, who will participate in leadership opportunities within the health department and build leadership skills. Each of those who completes completes the program will get a $500 stipend. In addition, those resources will be utilized to fund an MBK lead. As you know, we had a Fuzed fellow last year and the Fuze fellow her term ended, so we'll be looking to hire someone to help support operating the MBK program as well as additional staffing opportunities to support all the youth meetings and other outreach efforts. And then finally, we'll be utilizing the funding for community capacity building. Capacity building grants will be small grants to local community based organizations who want to help support moving forward toward the six goals under the MBK plan. Thank you. I just wanted to call this out on from the consent calendar because it's kind of a big deal. $100,000 may not seem like a lot of money, but this is one of the first disbursements of the My Brother's Keeper Alliance, which is now aligned with the new Obama Foundation. So it's a real it's a good feather in our cap to be one of the first communities to receive one of these grants. And it really and I think investing in a youth leadership program is certainly the right way to go. So thank you and congratulations, Councilwoman Gonzalez. Great work, Kelly. We always appreciate this this work within the equity lens. And we appreciate all of the work of your staff as well, because I know it's a lot under these grants. Thank you. Thank you. Any public comment saying please cast your vote? Motion carries.