To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract #74-373-15 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 Contract #74-373-15 with Martinez Unified School District (MUSD), an educational institution, in an amount not to exceed $213,154, to provide Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA) prevention and early intervention (PEI) for underserved and at-risk students for the period July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this Contract will result in annual expenditures of up to $213,154 and will be funded as budgeted by the department in FY 2024-25 100% by BHSA funds.
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 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 November 7, 2023, the Board of Supervisors executed Contract #74-373-14 with MUSD in an amount not to exceed $204,956 to provide BHSA PEI services, for the period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024.
Approval of Contract #74-373-15 will allow the contractor to continue providing BHSA PEI services, through June 30, 2025. This Contract is late due to prolonged budget negotiations between the Division and Contractor.
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.