Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Colleen Chawla, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Jei Africa, Director, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
Subject: Agreement with Caminar, Inc. for Housing and Housing-Related Mental Health Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with Caminar, Inc. for housing and housing-related mental health services, for the term of June 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027, in an amount not to exceed $15,290,396.
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BACKGROUND:
Since 1964, the nonprofit organization Caminar, Inc. (Caminar) has provided community-based services to individuals with serious mental illnesses. Caminar's programs focus on maximizing wellness and recovery opportunities for adults with mental, physical, and developmental disabilities. Caminar provides residential care, transitional and permanent supported housing, supported education and supported employment, individual support services, and life skills training.
DISCUSSION:
Caminar will continue to provide the following: 1) transitional residential treatment; 2) supported housing services (including housing rental subsidies and client transportation costs); 3) case management; 4) rehabilitation services (including supported education, supported employment, and enhanced supported education services for Transition Age Youth). Additional services to be provided are the administration of the San Mateo Contractors' Association grant funding and the management of client transportation needs in all contractor-sponsored programs. All of these programs and provided services support clients in obtaining and maintaining housing. There were 305 clients served in FY 2023-24 by the programs in this agreement.
Residential treatment programs like Caminar have established expertise in serving clients with a serious mental illness with co-occurring disorders. There continues to be a shortage of facilities i...
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