Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Jei Africa, Director, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
Subject: Agreement with Telecare Corporation for Supported Housing Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with Telecare Corporation for Supported Housing Services, for the term of March 1, 2024, through June 30, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $5,622,488.
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BACKGROUND:
The current aged Cordilleras Mental Health Center in Redwood City is being replaced with four new Mental Health Rehabilitation Centers (MHRC) and co-housing facilities at the newly named Cordilleras Health and Healing Campus. Services at the new facilities are anticipated to begin in early 2024. Services at the new campus will include both permanent and transitional housing for 57 consumers in the new Canyon Vista Center (Canyon Vista).
In November 2022, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking two separate agencies to provide a co-housing program at the newly rebuilt Cordilleras campus, with one agency providing property management services and one agency providing supported housing services. Telecare Corporation (Telecare) and ABODE Services submitted a joint proposal, with Telecare proposing to provide the supported housing services for consumers in transitional housing.
In February 2023, Telecare and ABODE were selected to provide the supported housing and property management services, respectively.
Telecare operates numerous mental health facilities throughout California. For BHRS, Telecare currently contracts to provide Full Service Partnership services, crisis residential services at Serenity House, and MHRC and residential services at the current Cordilleras facility, which they have done since 1982. Telecare is one of four providers that will be providing MHRC s...
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