i am michelle rugals from the d.p.h. business office. this is an intensive case management program which has two component subgroups. one is general adult transition age youth, and there are 500 slots, and the forensic focus, and they have 150 slots. the forensic focus are individuals referred from drug court. they are clients with high needs, and that's how they get placed into this very intensive case management wraparound program. so the request today is a proposal to increase the length of the term and add the corresponding funding to fund it for the additional years through december 31, 2022. >> supervisor fewe >> supervisor fewer: thank you. colleagues, any comments or questions? supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair fewer. thank you, miss rugals. i am a proponent of d.p.h. and the amazing work that they do. but again, we have this scoring and it's sort of in all the contracts that we look at in d.p.h. >> do you mean solicitations? >> yeah. the scoring of the responses to the r.f.p.s, and i guess i'm tryin

in terms of evaluating those programs, i think michelle rugals spoke about our b.l.s. reports that came out, and what goes into that is the measuring of the cans. so when a child first comes in, there is a child assessment and needs assessment that is done. and then, six months later, it's looked at to see how much improvement, and a year later to see how much improvement. and as a monitor, you can go on-line and see the scores. now the one thing to keep in mind is everything is fluid. so while someone's cans scores may look like they're not getting better, there's a lot of external reasons for that. when a person comes in for treatment, you can see the scores go down because they're dealing with traumas because the function does become inhabited by that. but then, you know, they would tend to go up after that. there's also so many socioeconomic factors that go into that. treatment is treatment, but i have to say i agree with my friend here. when you don't have housing and clothing and food, that's going to impact the treatment, as well. so we're happy to come back. th