LA County Board

8.\nIncreasing the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,\nInfants, and Children Utilization\nRecommendation as submitted by Supervisors Horvath and Mitchell: Instruct, as\npart of the Community Pathway, the Executive Director of the Office for the\nAdvancement of Early Care and Education, Directors of Public Social Services,\nChildren and Family Services, Mental Health, and Health Services, in\ncollaboration with the Executive Officer of the Board, the Acting Chief Executive\nOfficer, through the Poverty Alleviation Initiative, Executive Director of the\nOffice of Food Systems, Acting Executive Director of the Office of Child\nProtection, the Superintendent of Schools of the Los Angeles County Office of\nEducation, and other relevant family-serving County Departments and external\nstakeholders, including First 5 LA and the Special Supplemental Nutrition\nProgram for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) sites in the County:\nCreate a “Los Angeles County Families with Young Children toolkit” for\nfamily-serving Departments. The toolkit should include a comprehensive\nlist of resources and services including WIC, home visiting, etc.\nShare WIC information and promotional materials (and the entire toolkit\nonce it is developed) with families during key touchpoints, including\nreferrals for County and non-County services, such as home visits, early\nchildhood programming, and other client interactions across\nfamily-serving systems.\nExplore options for co-locating WIC staff at relevant County offices.\nIdentify strategies for increasing utilization of Child and Adult Care Food\nProgram (CACFP) in the County.\nDevelop a “Better Together” campaign to promote awareness of WIC and\nCalFresh, promoting that people can enroll in both programs, and that\nutilizing both programs together can help to mitigate food insecurity.\nIncrease knowledge and awareness of food-related resources, including\nWIC and CACFP, at natural touchpoints such as early education\ncenters, child care providers, healthcare settings, and other\nfamily-serving organizations.\nProvide regular updates at the Family and Social Services Cluster\nmeetings on the progress of the above directives.\nDirect the Acting Chief Executive Officer, in collaboration with County Counsel,\nthe Directors of Public Social Services, Children and Family Services, Public\nHealth, Mental Health, Health Services, the Executive Officer of the Board, and\nother relevant family-serving County Departments, to report back to the Board\nin writing within 60 days on the feasibility of implementing relevant\nrecommendations from the “Report Back on the December 3, 2024 Enhancing\nLinkages for DCFS-Impacted Families Board of Supervisors Motion,”\nincluding:\nDeveloping and implementing Countywide standardized screening tools\nand referral processes for all County-administered services and\nprograms.\nDeveloping and implementing universal enrollment forms and expanding\nexisting enrollment processes to streamline completion and reduce\nbarriers for families who qualify for multiple County services, where\nfeasible and regulatorily permissible. (25-6714)\nMotion by Supervisors Horvath and Mitchell (Exempt From Cluster)\nExecutive Director of the Office of Child Protection's Report dated 3/3/25\nExecutive Officer of the Board's Report dated 5/30/25