To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract #74-559-8 with YWCA of Contra Costa/Sacramento
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #74-559-8 with YWCA Contra Costa/Sacramento, a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $450,000, to provide mental health services to recipients of the CalWORKs Program and their children, including individual, group and family collateral counseling, case management, and medication management services to reduce barriers to employment, for the period July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this Contract will result in annual budgeted expenditures of up to $450,000 and will be funded 100% by Substance Abuse Mental Health Works (SAMHWORKS) revenues.
BACKGROUND:
The County has been contracting with YWCA Contra Costa/Sacramento since July 2018 to provide mental health services to recipients of the CalWORKs Program and their children who have been screened as having behavioral health, substance abuse and/or mental health needs severe enough to impede their ability to participate in Welfare to Work Activities.
This Contract is entered into under and subject to the following legal authorities: Welfare and Institutions Code §§ 5600, et seq. (The Bronzan McCorquodale Act); California Code of Regulations (“CCR”), Title 9, §§ 523, et seq. (Community Mental Health Services); California Government Code §§ 26227 and 31000.The Behavioral Health’s Quality Management, Utilization Management and Contract Monitor Staff meet on a regular basis to ensure monitoring and performance measures in the contract are upheld. This Contract was approved by Health Services Personnel to ensure there is no conflict with labor relations. Per Administrative Bulletin 600.3 the Department has posted a continuous Request for Qualifications and maintains a current qualified list of vendors at all times.
On October 17, 2023, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #74-559-6 with YWCA of Contra Costa/Sacramento, in an amount not to exceed $250,000, for the provision of mental health services to recipients of the CalWORKs Program and their children, including individual, group and family collateral counseling, case management, and medication management services to reduce barriers to employment for the period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024.
On March 19, 2024, the Board of Supervisors approved Amendment Agreement #74-559-7 with YWCA of Contra Costa/Sacramento, effective March 1, 2024, to increase the payment limit to a new payment limit of $450,000, for additional services, with no change in the term through June 30, 2024.
Approval of Contract #74-559-8 allows the Contractor to continue providing mental health services through June 30, 2025. Delay in processing this Contract is due to ongoing negotiations between the Department and Contractor.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this Contract is not approved, CalWORKs recipients will not have sufficient access to mental health services as needed.
CHILDREN’S IMPACT STATEMENT:
This program supports the following Board of Supervisors’ community outcomes: “Families that are safe, stable and nurturing.” Expected program outcome is increased number of CalWORKs participants ready to return to the labor force and earn income after they and their families receive mental health services under this contract.