To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Ori Tzvieli, Interim Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract #74-373-16 with Martinez Unified School District
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Interim Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #74-373-16 with Martinez Unified School District (MUSD), an educational institution, in an amount not to exceed $223,812, to provide Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) for underserved and at-risk students for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this Contract will result in annual expenditures of up to $223,812 and will be funded as budgeted by the department in FY 2025-26 100% by MHSA PEI funds.
BACKGROUND:
This Contract meets the social needs of County’s population by providing MHSA 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 Mental Health Services Act 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, and a Public Hearing was held at the Mental Health Commission meeting on July 5, 2023. The plan was approved by the Board of Supervisors on August 1, 2023.
On September 10, 2024, the Board of Supervisors executed Contract #74-373-15 with MUSD in an amount not to exceed $213,154 to provide MHSA PEI services, for the period July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
Approval of Contract #74-373-16 will allow the Contractor to continue providing MHSA PEI services, through June 30, 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.