Stevens questions status of 2017 Beacon RFP's ACS preventive component
Stevens asks about the 76 standalone Beacon programs and 15 ACS-linked Beacons from the 2017 RFP. Asherall confirms the ACS preventive piece has been moved under ACS's direct funding and monitoring, leaving the Beacons separate.
In 2017, DYCD issued two beacon RFPs.
The first RFP was for 76 beacon standalone programs at DOE.
The second was for 15 with ACS programs, which provided community-based programs.
programs families with youth at risk of foster care placement.
Those RFP were set to expire in 2020 with the option for renewal for additional three years.
Given that this is now six years past the initial end date, can you please give me an update on whether
Those 76 beacon standalone programs and 15 beacons with ACS programs are still available.
What's the level of funding available for them and whether there have been adjustments that have or will be made to those programs?
So when we issued the RFP for Beacon back in 2017, yes, we did have an ACS preventive component.
Since then, Chair Stevens, we no longer have the ACS preventive piece attached to a cornerstone.
We've since...
Moved those services, those services supervision under ACS.
Not ACS, is it ACS?
Yeah, ACS.
And so they are solely funding and monitoring those programs directly.
And so are they still, was the ACS piece just pulled out and the beacons were left?
Okay.
Yes, that is the case.
Well, I was looking so shocked because my brother in government, Assemblymember Landon Diaz, just walked in the room.
So look at that.
Look at that.
The state visiting the city.
Love that.