To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Grant Colfax, Health Services Director
Report Title: Interagency Amendment/Extension #74-373-17 with Martinez Unified School District
☒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 Interagency Amendment/Extension #74-373-17 with Martinez Unified School District (MUSD), an educational institution, effective June 30, 2026, to amend Interagency Agreement #74-373-16, to increase the payment limit by $114,144, from $223,812 to a new payment limit of $337,956, and to extend the termination date from June 30, 2026 to December 31, 2026, for additional Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA) Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) services for underserved and at-risk students.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this Amendment/Extension will result in additional expenditures of up to $114,144 and will be funded 100% by BHSA-PEI revenues. Beginning July 1, 2026, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) funding fully transitions to the BHSA to reflect full implementation and oversight required under California Proposition 1, approved by voters in March 2024, which modernizes MHSA by renaming it the BHSA and redirecting funding to support building a comprehensive, integrated, and unified behavioral health system statewide. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
This Contract meets the social needs of County’s population by providing BHSA-PEI services. Contractor has been providing these services since July 1, 2009. The CORE (Community Optimizing Resources for Empowerment) Program is facilitated through MUSD and Vicente Martinez High School (VMHS) to assist Contra Costa Behavioral Health (CCBH) in implementing the CORE Program at Vicente Martinez High School and Briones School provides underserved, at-risk students in grades 9-12 with a variety of integrated experiential and leadership opportunities that promote mental health wellness in ways that are non-stigmatizing and non-discriminatory. These opportunities support social, emotional and behavioral health, career exposure and personal and academic growth while also encouraging, linking and increasing student access to direct mental health services.
This Contract is entered into under and subject to the following legal authorities: 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.
This provider was selected in collaboration with community stakeholder advisory bodies and was approved as part of the comprehensive BHSA Three-Year Plan as required by State regulation. Providers interested in providing specialized services were invited proactively to participate in program development and offered the opportunity to submit interest at dozens of publicly noticed meetings. The services and vendors were identified in the formal Three-Year plan was approved on the following schedule that was noticed to the public and approved by the Board on August 1, 2023. The Three-Year Plan was posted for public comment from June 5, 2023 through July 5, 2023, there was a Public Hearing at the Mental Health Commission meeting on July 5, 2023, and it was approved by the Board of Supervisors on August 1, 2023.
On July 22, 2025, the Board of Supervisors approved Interagency Agreement #74-373-16 with MUSD in an amount not to exceed $223,812, for the provision of BHSA-PEI services for underserved and at-risk students for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
Approval of Interagency Amendment/Extension #74-373-17 will allow the Contractor to provide additional BHSA-PEI for services underserved and at-risk students through December 31, 2026.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this Contract is not approved, there would be no program to provide integrated experiential and leadership opportunities to continuation high school students to promote mental health wellness in ways that are non-stigmatizing and non-discriminatory.
CHILDREN’S IMPACT STATEMENT:
This Contract supports the following Board of Supervisors’ community outcomes: “Children Ready For and Succeeding in School”; “Families that are Safe, Stable, and Nurturing”; and “Communities that are Safe and Provide a High Quality of Life for Children and Families”. Expected program outcomes include an increase in positive social and emotional development as measured by the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) and placement at discharge to a lower level of care.