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: Authorizing the Chief of San Mateo County Health or Designee to Execute Three Separate Agreements with Essential Local Community-Based Organizations for Full Service Partnership Services Programs
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the Chief of San Mateo County Health, or designee(s) to execute agreements and negotiate amendments with each contract listed in Attachment A to provide Full Service Partnership Services, for the term of June 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $66,707,856.
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BACKGROUND:
The cornerstone of the County's Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Community Services and Supports plan is the delivery of Full Service Partnership (FSP) services for the highest-risk consumers with serious mental illness. FSP programs for both Youth and Adult clients are designed to allow consumers to remain living in the community and decrease their hospitalizations and/or incarcerations by providing case management, medication management, therapy, social activities, and 24/7 response capability to mitigate an evolving situation.
FSP programs have been shown to decrease psychiatric emergency service visits, hospitalizations, homelessness, active substance use, and arrests by providing case management, medication management, therapy, social activities, and 24/7 crisis response capability to mitigate evolving situations with participants in the program.
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) requires that counties include specific language related to the implementation of the CalAIM system in all contracts with FSP providers. Specifically, all FSP contracts covering Medi-Cal services must include mandated program requirements and fee-for-service (FFS) langu...
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