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Action Item
DATE: Tuesday, February 21, 2017
TO: School Board Members
FROM: Jeff Eakins, Superintendent
SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS
Approve the Interagency Agreement with the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, the Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance, Eckerd Community Alternatives, and the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (Educational Access, Opportunity, and Alternatives)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Department of Children and Families (DCF), the School Board of Hillsborough County, Florida, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Agency for Persons With Disabilities, The Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance, Eckerd Community Alternatives, and the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, are entering into this agreement to coordinate their respective responsibilities for furnishing educational and vocational services and supports for children known to DCF.  The coordination of services and supports across agencies is critical to positive educational and meaningful life outcomes for Florida’s children.  Such services require the coordinated flow of information across multiple child-serving agencies to ensure that policy, procedure, service delivery and resource development are provided in a manner that maximizes the likelihood of positive outcomes.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
• Improve the high school graduation rate
FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted:  No)
There is no cost to the district associated with this interagency agreement.
EVALUATION
Agency partners will meet quarterly to oversee, manage, evaluate, and implement this agreement.  Recommendations will be made to improve local policies and procedures, which impact children served by the Florida Child Welfare System.
SUBMITTED BY:  Myrna Hogue, Supervisor, School Social Work Services
Holly Saia, Director, Student Services Division, (813) 273-7136
Wynne A. Tye   Van Ayres
Assistant Superintendent, Educational Access, Opportunity, and Alternatives
(813) 273-7033
  Deputy Superintendent
(813) 272-4895
    C 2.01
Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) * Mtg.#20170221_807 (Board Meeting) * Section C Item# 2.01