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AI# 10969
Regular City Council Meeting
5.16.
09/13/2022:
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Agenda Item
Resolution - Public Health Services:
Consider a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute a StarCare Specialty Health System Memorandum of Understanding, Parenting Awareness & Drug Risk Education Program (PADRE), and all related documents, by and between the City of Lubbock Health Department, and StarCare Specialty Health System, to participate in an interagency collaborative effort to provide community based, intervention services to parents and expectant parents with substance use disorders, or who are at risk of developing substance use disorders.
Item Summary
This agreement will provide the City of Lubbock Health Department the opportunity to refer individuals in priority and target populations, for needed care, education, and follow up at StarCare Specialty Health System. The goal of the program is to intervene with education and appropriate referrals in order to improve birth outcomes. Through this agreement, the Health Department will provide 3 of the 10 Essential Public Health Services.
These services include:
1) Informing, educating and empowering people about health issues;
2) Linking people to needed personal health services; and
3) Mobilizing community partnerships and acting to identify and solve health problems.
This agreement will begin September 1, 2022 and will terminate August 31, 2023.
Fiscal Impact
None
Staff/Board Recommending
Bill Howerton, Deputy City Manager
Katherine Wells, Director of Public Health Services
Attachments
Resolution
MOU
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