Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise Rogers, Chief, Health System
Stephen Kaplan, Director, Behavioral Health & Recovery Services
Subject: Measure K: Amendment to the Agreement with TALK: Teaching & Assessing Language for Kids for Alternative Therapy Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Measure K: Adopt a resolution authorizing an amendment to the agreement with TALK: Teaching & Assessing Language for Kids for alternative therapy services, increasing the amount by $316,500 to $416,500, and extending the term of the agreement through June 30, 2018.
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BACKGROUND:
On June 16, 2016, the Chief of the Health System approved an agreement with TALK: Teaching & Assessing Language for Kids (TALK) to provide alternative therapy services to children with speech, voice, social and developmental disorders.
DISCUSSION:
It is now necessary to amend this agreement due to the success Behavioral Health & Recovery Services (BHRS) clinical staff are seeing in the children referred for these services. Through this amendment, TALK will continue to provide intensive, individualized speech and language assessment, and treatment and consultation services, to children. Services are unique to the specific need and developmental level of each child, support the healthy development of speech and language, and address a range of sensorimotor and self-regulation issues that these children often struggle with. Functional, measurable goals developed for each client target improvement of communication and self-regulation resulting in a reduction of emotional outbursts, anxiety and depression. These critical services are not typically covered by insurance, and not affordable to BHRS clients.
Under the B-1 Administrative Memorandum, agreements that provide "sole source" services are exempt from the Request for Proposals (RFP) process. TALK has developed both a unique and specialized model for this...
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