Title
Resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $184,269 from Fund 746 ARPA for the continuation of two mental health counselors at the Lake County Children’s Advocacy Center (LCCAC)
Staff Summary
• Due to the loss of a grant at the Lake County Health Department, two on-site Mental Health Providers at the Lake County Children’s Advocacy Center will no longer be funded. In order to continue this critical service to children, the ARPA Fund will fund this function through November 30, 2022.
• The LCCAC will secure alternative funding for continuation starting on December 1, 2022.
• The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is an appropriate funding source for this initiative because the services are evidence based and serve a vulnerable population.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, an emergency appropriation is necessary to establish a budget within the ARPA Fund for the Lake County Children’s Advocacy Center mental health counselors; and
WHEREAS, in the absence of ARPA funding, on-site counseling for children would no longer be provided, at a time when the population of children needing services is expected to increase; and
WHEREAS, American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding is appropriate for this purpose.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that $184,269 is emergency appropriated in Fund 746 ARPA Fund in account 746-1000063-79940 (Miscellaneous Contractual Services).
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois on October 12, 2021.